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"See Saw Margery Daw" is a 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. ==Lyrics and melody== A common modern version is: :See Saw Margery Daw, :Jacky shall have a new master; :Jacky shall earn but a penny a day, :Because he can't work any faster.〔I. Opie and P. Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 297-8.〕 The name Jacky is often replaced with Johnny or Jack. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ''National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs'' (1870).〔J. J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'' (Courier Dover Publications, 5th edn., 2000), ISBN 0486414752, p. 502.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「See Saw Margery Daw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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