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Sandgroper
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My grandfather always used to say this little rhyme, but I have no idea where it comes from - Lancashire or Yorkshire?
It was of course with a heavy accent! which unfortunately I cannot quote correctly!
Little Tommy Tiddle Mouse Jumped o'er our house Our House crumbled Little Tommy grumbled
Kay
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Sue
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 09:59
Little Tommy Tiddlemouse Lived in a little house
but I don't remeber the rest. It was in a nursery rhyme book that my girls had when they were toddlers
Sue
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Cathy
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 10:12
Hi Sandgroper. Is this something to do with Mother Goose?
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy Take Care...Cathy |
Gloria
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 11:56
Little Tommy Tiddlemouse lived in a little house Someone's knocking, me oh my Someone's calling, who am I?
I'd be dangerous with a brain!!!!! www.briercliffesociety.co.uk |
HerbSG
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 15:36
you are right on Cathy
HERB
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Sandgroper
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 16:25
Dont believe it was ever a song, or from Mother Goose - still - might be wrong.
Granddad only told it to make us children laugh (1940s) especially when said with his Lanc accent. Thanks everyone for the replies.
Kay
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panbiker
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 17:07
I recollect this rhyme as Tommy Tittlemouse (not Tiddlemouse) and is given as same in this volume of Mother Goose rhymes.
http://books.google.com/books?id=wLdTxADbn-UC&dq=mother+goose&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=zle8LjkOtd&sig=pC6iNcii3zNXAD5krneGCc9JORM&hl=en&ei=W4qiSoukMYvM-Qad--DrDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=&f=false
A bit more googling finds these Illustration references:
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=hes&p=1510
I also found a possible link to Beatrix Potters character of the same name but the Mother Goose references pre-date. Seems like litte Tommy is resonably cosmopolitan and can be found or heard in many countries.
The Germans made a long armed bear (similar looking to a Stief bear) with the same name, apparently it's his 100th birthday soon.
Edited by - panbiker on 05/09/2009 17:20:22
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Stanley
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Posted - 10/09/2009 : 08:20
I can remember a very scary nursery rhyme about a girl who was attacked. Was it Lucy Locket lost her pocket?
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Gloria
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Posted - 10/09/2009 : 14:35
Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; Not a penny was there in it, Only ribbon round it. The words of the Nursery Rhyme, 'Lucy Lockett' were based on people and places in London during the 1700's. Lucy Lockett was believed to be a barmaid at the Cock public House in Fleet Street, London. This pub, or alehouse was first established in 1554 and rebuilt in 1888. Samuel Pepys mentioned the Cock Alehouse in his diary which stated: April 23 1668 "To the Cock Alehouse and drank and eat a lobster, and sang..." Kitty Fisher was a famous courtesan - Catherine Maria ('Kitty') Fisher (died 1767). Her lifestyle was described as follows: "She lives in the greatest possible splendor, spends twelve thousand pounds a year, and she is the first of her social class to employ liveried servants..." The Pocket referred to was the old Middle English word for a pouch or a small bag. The implication is that poor Lucy Lockett made very little money as opposed to the similarly employed Kitty who was envied for her great beauty and vast wealth!
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