A friend has told me when she learned it as a child from her mom she heard it as "whine whine" (sugar baby.) It is lovely to me to think how far this melody has traveled, and how many visualizations and associations its accumulated in the hundreds of years since it emerges. I see what I learned as "pull... pull" is sometimes sung "push ...pull."      And how after a while such a piece resides in the world of the very young.