Buttons on a dress, petals on a flower, bounces of a ball, number of jumps over a rope, etc., may be counted. The last recited term or word is that which will come true.
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The rhyme is repeated until the last of the series of objects or actions is reached. (or Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, dustbin) Where shall I live?ĭuring the divination, the child will ask a question and then count out a series of actions or objects by reciting the rhyme. How shall I get to church?Ĭoach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart. Silk, satin, cotton, rags (or silk, satin, velvet, lace) (or silk, satin, muslin, rags) How shall I get it? Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief. The "tinker, tailor" rhyme is one part of a longer counting or divination game, often played by young girls to foretell their futures it runs as follows: Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, Or what about a cowboy, policeman, jailer, engine driver, or a pirate chief? Or what about a ploughman or a keeper at the zoo, Or what about a circus man who lets the people through? Or the man who takes the pennies on the roundabouts and swings, Or the man who plays the organ or the other man who sings? Or what about the rabbit man with rabbits in his pockets And what about a rocket man who's always making rockets? Oh it's such a lot of things there are and such a lot to be That there's always lots of cherries on my little cherry tree. Milne's Now We Are Six (1927) had the following version of "Cherry stones": "My belief – a captain, a colonel, a cow-boy, a thief." The version printed by William Wells Newell in Games and Songs of American Children in 1883 was: "Rich man, Poor man, beggar-man, thief, Doctor, lawyer (or merchant), Indian chief", and it may be from this tradition that the modern American lyrics solidified. When James Orchard Halliwell collected the rhyme in the 1840s, it was for counting buttons with the lines: The first record of the opening four professions being grouped together is in William Congreve's Love for Love (1695), which has the lines:Ī Soldier and a Sailor, a Tinker and a Tailor, Had once a doubtful strife, sir. 1475), in which pawns are named: "Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant, Physician, Taverner, Guard and Ribald." Origins Ī similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief, Doctor, Lawyer, (or "Merchant") Indian Chief. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief.
for choosing who shall be "It" in a game of tag.
It is commonly used by children in both Britain and America for "counting out", e.g.
It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 802. " Tinker, Tailor" is a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song traditionally played in England, that can be used to count cherry stones, buttons, daisy petals and other items. Spoonflower products are made-to-order, meaning we dont have a warehouse of ready-to-ship items. For other uses, see Tinker, Tailor (disambiguation).
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