* whatever your nationality, one of the things you are sure to, remember from your childhood is the...

Nursery Rhymes

*Whatever your nationality, one of the things you are sure to, remember from your childhood is the nursery rhymes you learnt at  your mother's knee

*The most popular among the English children are nursery rhymes of "Mother Goose"

«Hey Diddle Diddle»

The cat and the fiddle  

The cow jumped over the moon;  

The little dog laughed to see such fun 

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Catherine la Fidel / Catherine the Faithful

The first wife of Henry VIII

All (nearly all) the characters in the rhyme are visible in the night skyin the month of April

•CAT - Leo

• FIDDLE - Lyra

•COW - Taurus

•MOON - MOON

• LITTLE DOG - Canis Minor

• THE DISH - Crater

• THE SPOON – Ursa Major

Is Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks  

Were walking out one Sunday    

Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks: 

“Tomorrow will be Monday."  

Rhymes that underline real ordinary events as very unusual and surprising

There are "topsy-turvy rhymes" in which 

the world is presented upside down:

I saw an oak creep upon the ground,

I saw a peacock with a fiery tail,I saw a blasting comet drop down hail,I saw a cloud wrapped with ivy round,

“Sir Christopher Wren  

Said, ‘I’m going to dine with some men.

If anybody calls  

Say I’m designing St. Paul’s”  

There was a young lady of Niger,  

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;  

They returned from the ride  

With the lady inside,  

And the smile on the face of the tiger!

There was an Old Man with a beard,  

Who said, 'It is just as I feared!  

Two Owls and a Hen,  

Four Larks and a Wren,  

Have all built their nests in my beard!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,  

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.  

All the king's horses, All the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.  

Queen Caroline King George II

While historians may have interesting theories about

the origins of nursery rhymes let's hope that

children, the world over will

continue to pass on their rhymes and primitive

rhythms from generation to generation.