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Time for fun Rhymes with "forty-one". 42 Winnie the Pooh Rhymes with "forty-two" and in reference to Winnie-the-Pooh, a beloved UK children's book character. 43 Down on your knees This was a phrase that was made popular during wartime by soldiers. 44 Droopy drawers [6] [failed verification] Rhyme that refers to sagging underwear. [citation needed]
The rhyme was first printed in 1820 by James Hogg in Jacobite Reliques. Apple Pie ABC: United Kingdom 1871 [7] Edward Lear made fun of the original rhyme in his nonsense parody "A was once an apple pie". Akka bakka bonka rakka: Norway: 1901 [8] Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games). [8] All The Pretty Little Horses
The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies – the maids. The nonsense "rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk", albeit of a more lascivious variety.
Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt, [1] was played as early as the 14th century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle. [2] It is also known as capping the rhyme . The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts the possible rhymes with a particular word.
Sigmund Spaeth was eventually to have fun with the rhyme by adapting it to a number of bygone musical styles as The musical adventures of Jack & Jill in Words & Music: A Book of Burlesques, (Simon and Schuster, 1926). These included a Handel aria, Italian operatic and Wagnerian versions. [27]
It was followed in 1910 by The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book, containing other rhymes too. This had coloured full-page illustrations: composites for lines 1-2 and 3–4, and then one for each individual line. [10] In America the rhyme was used to help young people learn to count and was also individually published.
Iona and Peter Opie observed that, although the rhyme had remained fairly consistent, the game associated with it has changed at least three times including: as a forfeit game, a guessing game, and a dancing ring. [1] London Cries: A Muffin Man by Paul Sandby (c. 1759) In The Young Lady's Book (1888), Matilda Anne Mackarness described the game as:
A version of the rhyme appears at the beginning of Robert Crumb's comic strip, "Crybaby's Blues". [6] In The Simpsons season 4 episode 20 "Whacking Day," Bart performs a rendition of "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit." [7] The American bean brand Bush Brothers and Company wrote a related song with the singer Josh Groban.