Friday, January 16, 2009

Nursery Rhymes

I am with my cousins these days and have full access to all the textbooks of the first standard and am enjoying those. It refreshes your memory and brings back all the nostalgia... (aahhh...an awesome feeling). The best thing - you know everything!! (A feeling that does not come to me always ;) )
Coming to the point, I have always loved nursery rhymes/fairy tales and right now, I got to read so many of them...and my all time favourite:-

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!

I used to sing this rhyme a lot when I was a little girl and made sure my bro also knew each its words by heart - though am sure he doesn't remember any of it now!!! Yesterday, while I was repeating this in a loop, my grandmom also started humming the same. I was astonished - and the first thing I said with a surprised look on my face - "Aap ko bhi yeh aata hai??" (translated - "You also know this one??" ). Its such a legacy and somehow gets imprinted into the memory and imagine retrieving it after some 70 years.. truly amazing!! I hope I am able to do the same after such a long time as well...
Anyway, now I gtg.. loads of work pending...

PS - I really want to know if you haven't heard this rhyme before reading this piece.. do drop in a comment if u haven't :)

6 comments:

Bhavya said...

niiice... u reminded me of the days my mom used to recite this to me :)
but I never knew the words by heart :(

actinium said...

its d 1st time i'm reading dis in full...did knw a rhyme like dis exists, tho (had heard d 1st 2 lines in a movie)

M. D. Ramteke said...

Hi,
It reminded the Gazhal of Great singer Jagjit Sing " Ye Daulat Bhi Lelo, Ye Shoharat Bhi Lelo'

Akash said...

I also never read it...

abhgupta said...

good rhyme.. good masti and all that...
Now, to the point... brings back all the nostalgia..??? Check....!! :-D

cornucopia_of_gobbledygook said...

@ NeatRat -> Check what????? and do not comment on the EU else u know what's coming up!!!!