Talk:The Folk-Lore Journal/Volume 7/Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c

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Many of the games described in this work contain songs and rhymes that are quoted in full. These are as follows:

I. Choral Games

1. Sally Water (Roud 4509)
2. Little Girl of mine (Roud 8371)
3. What are you weeping for? (Roud 2118)
4. Rosy Apple, Lemon, and Pear (Roud 6492)
5. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (Roud 7882)
6. Kiss-in-the-ring (Roud 13188)
7. Drop the Handkerchief
8. My little Dog Buff
9. (no song quoted for the game "Cat after Mouse")
10. Green Gravel (Roud 1368)
11. Wall-flowers (Roud 6307)

II. Dramatic Games

1. Oranges and Lemons (Roud 13190)
2. Fox and Goose
3. When first we went to School (Roud 5040)
4. Garden Gate
5. May I go out to play?
6. The Duke of Rideo (Roud 730)
7. A Young Man that wants a Sweetheart (Roud 730)
8. Gathering Nuts away (Roud 6308)
9. Here we come gathering Nuts to-day
10. The Lady of the Land (Roud 12975)
11. The Lady of the Land continued (Roud 12975)
12. Queen Anne (Roud 12755)
13. An Old Woman from the Wood (though this is hardly a song and more a simple call-and-response)
14. How many Miles to Gandigo? (Roud 8148)
15. Basket

III. Games of Skill

• Lamploo (a very short chant)

IV. Christmas and Indoor Games

• The Cobbler
• Buff
• Here I lie, the length of a looby
• Ragged-and-tough
• A gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog
• One old ox opening oysters
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Green Grow the Rushes, O

V. Rhymes

a. Rustic rhymes

• Vlee away blackie-cap
• The robin and the wren
• Millery, millery, dousty poll
• Leädy-bird, leädy-bird, vlee away home
• Kernel, come, kernel, hop over my thumb
• Pimpernel, pimpernel, tell me true
• Tissty-tossty, tell me true
• Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
• Snail, snail, come out of your hole and Crow, crow, get out of my sight
• Handy-pandy
• Went out in garden
• Turn about, and wheel about
• Double u, double o, double d, e
• I owed your mother
• F for Finis and F for Fig
• My needle and thread
• Doctor, Doctor, how's your wife?
• Pick-pocket, penny nail
• Now I'll begin: I one my mother and I'll go to A, I'll go to B (not sure if this counts as a song or rhyme tbh)
• I went up one stair (ditto)
• I am a gold lock (ditto)

b. Nursery or Domestic rhymes

• John Smith fellow fine
• One, two, Buckle my shoe
• Rain, Rain, Go Away
• Great A, little a
• Knock at the door
• This little pig went to market
• Shoe the little horse, and shoe the little mare
• Pat a cëake, pat a cëake, bëaker's man
• This is the way the little girl walks
• Little boys and girls walk, walk, walk

c. Counting out or "Lot" rhymes

• One-ry, oo-ry, ick-ry, an, Hoky, poky, wangery, fum, One a zoll, zen a zoll, zig a zoll, zan, Onery, youery, ickery, Ann, Onery, twory, Dickery, Davy, Hokey, pokey, winkey, wum
• Dickory, dickory, dock
• Whippence, whoppence
• Oon, two, dree, vour, Gargy, Pargy, how's yer wife?', Zee zaw, Margery Daw, 'Pon my life an' honner!

VI. Riddles

1. Which would you rather have, a rusty rag, a sunburnt cake, or a blackbird under the bush?
2. As white as milk, an' 'tisn' milk
3. Long legs, crooked thighs
4. There is a little house; and in that little house there is a little room &c.
5. There was a thing just four weeks old
6. There was a king met a king
7. Little Miss Etticott
8. I saw a fish-pond all on fire

• Riddles (Barnes)

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:27, 20 June 2024 (UTC)