See Saw, Margery Daw

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See Saw Margery Daw (1772)

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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

"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

"See-saw, Margery Daw" in The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village by Thomas Q. Couch (Notes and Queries, 1855).
"Zee zaw, Margery Daw" in Dorsetshire Children's Games, &c by John Symonds Udal (The Folk-Lore Journal, 1889)
"See saw, Marjory Daw" 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

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