The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2710   Message #129168
Posted By: TimCarter@timcarter.freeserve.co.uk
28-Oct-99 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Oranges and Lemons (say the bells of...)
Subject: RE: Oranges and Lemons-Lyr addition and question
I was chasing around to find the history of this nursery ryhme, i.e. why suddenly shift from a happy ryhme about church bells to chopping off heads? The church at Old Bailey is "St Sepulchre without Newgate", Holborn Viaduct.