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NURSERY RHYMES: LAVENDER’S BLUE

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The Origin: Nursery Rhyme

Based on Wikipedia, A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in
Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early
19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development. In
the German Kniereitvers, the child is put in mock peril, but the experience is a pleasurable
one of care and support, which over time the child comes to command for itself. Research
also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning,
which aid mathematics skills.

The Origin: Lavender’s Blue

Based on Wikipedia, "Lavender's Blue" (sometimes called "Lavender Blue") is an
English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song
Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some
pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts. The earliest surviving version of the
song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679, under the name Diddle
Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers. The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune of
"Lavender Green", implying that a tune by that name was already in existence. The lyrics
printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking.
According to Robert B. Waltz, "The singer tells his lady that she must love him
because he loves her. He tells of a vale where young man and maid have lain together, and
suggests that they might do the same". Waltz cites Sandra Stahl Dolby as describing this
broadside version as being about a girl named Nell keeping the singer's bed warm.
Here is the first of ten verses:

Lavender's green, diddle, diddle, Lavender's blue

You must love me, diddle, diddle, cause I love you,
I heard one say, diddle, diddle, since I came hither,
That you and I, diddle, diddle, must lie together.

Both Waltz (citing Eloise Hubbard Linscott) and Halliwell have noted the song's
association with Twelfth Night and the choosing of the king of queen of the festivities of that
holiday. "Lavender's Blue" emerged as a children's song in Songs for the Nursery in 1805 in
the form:

Lavender blue and Rosemary green,

When I am king you shall be queen;
Call up my maids at four o'clock,
Some to the wheel and some to the rock;
Some to make hay and some to shear corn,
And you and I will keep the bed warm.

Similar versions appeared in collections of rhymes throughout the 19th century.

Lyrics
Based on Wikipedia, there are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many
variations of each verse. A typical version, described by James Halliwell in 1849, is:
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green,
When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen:
Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so?
'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.

Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work,

Some with a rake, dilly dilly, some with a fork;
Some to make hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn,
Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm.

If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap,

You shall be buried, dilly dilly, under the tap;
Who told you so, dilly dilly, pray tell me why?
That you might drink, dilly dilly, when you are dry.
 Based on Wikisource, The Original Lyrics: The oldest known version of the song later
known as Lavender’s Blue.

Diddle, Diddle.
Or,
The Kind Country Lovers.

With sly insinuations he perswades her

And by the bands of Love, along he leads her,
Relating pleasant stories for to bind her
And all to make her unto him prove kinder.
And so in Love at last they live together
With pleasant dayes enjoying one another.

Tune of Lavender green, &c.

With allowance, Ro. L'Estrange.

Lavenders green, didle, didle Lavenders blue,

You must love me, diddle, diddle cause I love you.
I heard one say, diddle, didle, since I came hither
That you & I diddle, diddle, must lie together.
My Hostesse maid diddle, dddle her name was Nell,
She was a Lass, diddle, diddle that I loved well.
But if she dye Diddle, diddle, by some mishap,
Then she shall lye, Diddle, diddle under the Tap.
That she may drink Diddle, diddle, when she's a dry,
Because she lov'd Diddle, diddle my Dog & I.
Call up your Maids Diddle, diddle set them to work,
Some to make Hay, Diddle, diddle some to the Rock.

Some to make Hay, Diddle, diddle, some to the Corn

Whilst you and I Diddle, didle, keep the bed warm.
Let the birds sing, Diddle, diddle and the lambs play,
We shall be safe Diddle, diddle out of harms way.

James at the George, Diddle, diddle Sue at the Swan,

He loves his maid Diddle diddle, she loves her man.
But if they chance Diddle, diddle for to be found,
Catch them i'th Corn Diddle diddle put them i'th pound.

I heard a bird Diddle, diddle sing in my Ear,

Maids will be scarce Diddle, diddle, the next New year.
For young men are Diddle diddle so wanton grown
That they ne'r mind Diddle, didle, which is their own.
 Down in a Vale Diddle diddle where flowers do grow,
And the Trees bud Diddle diddle all on a row.
A brisk young man Diddle diddle met with a Maid,
And laid her down, Diddle diddle under the shade.

Where they did play Diddle, diddle & Kiss & Court,
Like Lambs in May Diddle diddle making fine sport.
There lives a Lass Diddle diddle over the Green,
She sells good Ale Diddle diddle think what I mean.

Oft have I been Diddle diddle with her i'th dark

And yet I nere Diddle diddle shot at the mark.
But now my Dear Diddle diddle have at thy bumm
For I do swear Diddle diddle now I am come.

I will be kind Diddle diddle until I dye,

Then pretheee love Diddle didle my Dog & I.
For thee & I Diddle diddle now are all one,
And we will lye Diddle diddle no more alone.

Meanings of the Lyrics

Based on The Oxford English Dictionary, it defines dilly as "an excellent example of
a particular type of person or thing." Merriam Webster has also chimed in,
noting dilly "comes from an obsolete adjective meaning 'delightful.'"
Based on sacbee.com, according to dictionary.com, the origins of “dilly” are in a
shortening of the word “delightful” or “delicious,” probably from the 1930s. On its own, it
has come to mean “something or someone regarded as remarkable or unusual.” The phrase
could have roots even deeper in the English lexicon, though. A nursery rhyme titled
“Lavender’s Blue” that dates back to the 17th century uses “dilly dilly” as part of its cadence
in most of its lines.

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