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Thread #9589   Message #763913
Posted By: GUEST,Nathaniel
12-Aug-02 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Origins: riddle song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
Subject: RE: riddle song
I'm not positive, but I think that a "cherry without no stone" is a cherry blossom (because a cherry blossom would not have a seed in it), a "cock without no bone" is a chicken egg (because a chicken egg would not have a bone in it, unless the egg was fertilized), and "a baby nine months young, has no cryin" is an unborn baby (because a baby would not cry if it wasn't born yet).

-Nathaniel