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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.
"Saturday's Child" is a song by American pop-rock band The Monkees, from their 1966 debut album The Monkees. The song features Micky Dolenz on lead vocals. It was written by Bread frontman David Gates. The song is an electric guitar–based rock song.
The poem is first recorded in The Child's Song Book published in 1830. It's Raining, It's Pouring: United States 1912 [53] The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in "The Little Mother Goose", published in the United States in 1912. Jack Sprat: England 1639 [54] First appearance in John Clarke's collection of sayings. Kookaburra
The words of a French version of the rhyme were adapted by the Dada poet Philippe Soupault in 1921 and published as an account of his own life: . PHILIPPE SOUPAULT dans son lit / né un lundi / baptisé un mardi / marié un mercredi / malade un jeudi / agonisant un vendredi / mort un samedi / enterré un dimanche / c'est la vie de Philippe Soupault [3] [4]
In the folk rhyme Monday's Child, "Saturday's child works hard for a living". In another rhyme reciting the days of the week, Solomon Grundy "Died on Saturday". In folklore, Saturday was the preferred day to hunt vampires , because on that day they were restricted to their coffins.
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]
Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, and a child that is born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay; Money does not grow on trees
If a playground song does have a character, it is usually a child present at the time of the song's performance or the child singing the song. Awkward relations between young boys and girls is a common motif , as in the American playground song, jump-rope rhyme , [ 25 ] or taunt "K-I-S-S-I-N-G", spelt aloud.