Mo the Caller posted an example of the Wallflower song in this Mudcat thread whose theme was the origins of children's rhymes and songs: thread.cfm?threadid=92115 Subject: RE: 2026 Mudcat origins question

I'm going to take the liberty of re-posting the entire comment in this thread:

"Subject: RE: 2026 Mudcat origins question
From: Mo the caller - PM
Date: 11 Jun 06 - 01:49 PM

Azizi - Your water flowers are in the DigiTrad as Water water wallflowers.
The version my mother sang was -
Wallflowers wallflowers growing up so high
All you young ladies will surely have to die
[Except ----, she's the fairest of them all;
    She can dance, she can sing,
    And she can wear a wedding ring ]*
Turn, turn, turn again, turn your back to the wall again.

* I made the middle lines up, must have been something like that
A wallflower is an English flower (related to cabbage and radish) that can grow with very little soil, or even out of the cracks of old walls
A wallflower is also a girl without a partner at a dance.

Do you think that the link came before or after this game with its suggestion of dieing an Old Maid? "