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"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.
First mentioned in The Complaynt of Scotland, it later appeared in 1611 as an English song by Thomas Ravenscroft. Georgie Porgie 'Georgy Peorgy' United Kingdom 1841 [35] Origin unknown, first appeared in The Kentish Coronal where the rhyme was described as an "old ballad". Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' Great ...
Varieties of nougat are found in Milky Way, Reese's Fast Break, Snickers, [11] Double Decker, Zero, and Baby Ruth bars. "Fluffy nougat" is the featured ingredient in the 3 Musketeers bar. [12] [13] In Britain, nougat is traditionally made in the style of the southern European varieties, and is commonly found at fairgrounds and seaside resorts.
The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies, intended to help a child fall asleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. [4] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. [5]
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
2 Origins. 3 See also. 4 Notes. ... baby Bunting" (Roud 11018) is an English-language nursery rhyme and lullaby. ... A version in Songs for the Nursery 1805 had the ...
The piece, initially called "Hit Me Baby," was written by Swedish music producer and songwriter Max Martin for TLC, the three-woman American R&B group.