Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.
This is one of those rhymes that has a
sad past, linked with the rein of Mary Tudor, or Bloody Mary, the
daughter of King Henry VIII.
Many people were executed during here
rein by the Guillotine, this rhyme refers those times.
Silver bells
Thumbscrews which crushed the thumb between two hard surfaces by the
tightening a screw.
Cockle shells
Instruments of torture which were attached to the gen***ls
Maids or Maiden
The Guillotine
Rhymes Thirty Days
Wise Old Owl Tom Piper
House Jack Built
Seesaw Margery Daw
Bo Peep Little Piggy
Boy Blue Jack Sprat
Jack Horner Miss Muffet
Tommy Tucker Ladybug
Mary Mary quite contrary
Old King
Cole Cry Baby Bunting
Hush A Bye Baby
Doctor Foster
Georgie Porgie
Goosey Gander
The Grand Old Duke Of York
An Apple A Day St Ives
Baa
Baa Black Sheep Old Mother
Hubbard Robin Red Brest
Oranges And Lemon
Banbury Cross
Jack Be Nibble
Twinkle Star
Dicky Birds
Willie Winker
Sugar and Spice
Cock Robin Old Women
Diddle Diddle
Hickory Dickory
Hot Cross Buns
Humpty Dumpty
Ding Dong Bells
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Jack and Jill
Christmas is coming
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