See Saw, Margery Daw

See Saw Margery Daw (1772)

Popular English language nursery rhyme, folksong and playground singing game. The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13028.

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"Penny a day" variant edit

"Penny a-Day" in Tommy Thumb's Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1815 edition).
"See-saw, Margery Daw" (1) in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).
"See-Saw, Margery Daw" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).

"Sold her bed" variant edit

Quoted in full in "The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village" in Notes and Queries, Series 1, Volume 11 (1855).
"Nursery Jingle XXXI" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
"See-saw, Margery Daw" (2) in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).

Truncated variant edit

"See-Saw, sacaradown", edited by William Fayal Clarke, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose (October 1913)