GUEST,Jonny Sunshine,

Thanks also for posting your examples. I've read the "Mary Had A Little Lamb" parody various places. It's probably included in this Mudcat thread or its sister thread: thread.cfm?threadid=2998 Naughty kids' greatest hits II

And versions of that rhyme are posted in thread.cfm?threadid=41824&messages=115 RE: Nasty Nursery Rhymes


Also, Johnny Sunshine, special thanks for that "ippy dippy dation" choosing rhyme. I'd never heard that one and hadn't read it in print before. Also, I never knew there was a Camden in London, UK. Is that a neighborhood of London and is that where you learned or heard those rhymes {and what decade was that?} Prior to your post, the only Camden I knew about, was Camden, New Jersey which is right across the Ben Franklin bridge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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GUEST,Ewan McVicar, the book of Scottish children's rhymes that you mentioned sounds great!!! I hope that the book is available in the USA.

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Mo, I did both of those rhymes the same way you gave them {in Atlantic City New Jersey, 1950s}. But I didn't know the parson going upstairs/saying prayers part.

If we had said those lines, we would have said "preacher" instead of "parson". I recall my mother teaching me the "this is the church" rhyme and movements. But I believe that I learned the "Teddy bear, Teddy Bear" jump rope rhyme from girls may age or older.