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posted by [identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com at 05:04am on 14/08/2013
To be more precise, "I've never heard the tune." Most nursery rhymes have been set to music at various points in the past. I've just not heard this one.
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 05:31am on 14/08/2013
In the cases that I know about, the tune came first and the words were put to it. A very large proportion come from the 18th century and are a good window into 18th century popular music
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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 09:11am on 14/08/2013
That was my gut feeling too - Ride a cock horse is pretty much Lilibulero, after all. And some nursery rhymes started out as satire - The Grand Old Duke of York, for example.
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 09:18am on 14/08/2013
Apparently none of them started off as being for children; they were just songs that people knew that they sang to children, and this developed into a tradition even when the contemporary allusions were forgotten
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posted by [identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com at 04:03am on 15/08/2013
I shall remember this for next time I read Tristram Shandy.
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