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"See Saw Margery Daw" is an English language nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765. [1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13028.
The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764. [1] The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly through an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad , Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty , from about 1685. [ 1 ]
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Johnny Johnny Yes Papa" is an English-language children's poem. The song is about a child, Johnny, who is caught by his father eating sugar when he is not supposed to. Versions of this song comprising more than one verse usually continue with variations on this theme.
For the single release of "Do Nothing", the album version of the song was remixed, with Jerry Dammers adding a string synthesiser, credited as the 'Ice Rink String Sounds'. It was released as a double A-side single with a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm", with reference to then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. [4]
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Busy Doing Nothing may refer to: "Busy Doing Nothing", a song by Bing Crosby on the soundtrack of the film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1949 "Busy Doing Nothing", a song by Japanese singer Crystal Kay , her US debut