Oranges and Lemons

[mirrorshard]

[Poll #1498589]

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

That's the bell says "I do not know", not that I'm saying I do not know.

[mostlyacat.livejournal.com]

In the concert yesterday we did some of the verses of the (choir only) first carol in round-tastic form - so half the choir deliberately started a minim after the first half. Of course the audience probably thought that things had just gone terribly terribly wrong. In the last verse we did the same but four ways so they probably thought we had totally lost it by then.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

There's no "tickybox!" option.

[yoyoangel.livejournal.com]

In a freaky coincidence, we were singing this at our family feast yesterday, and discussing the different endings used at different primary schools when it's used as a skipping rhyme.

[yoyoangel.livejournal.com]

*Is* it 'at Bow' rather than 'of Bow'? We always sang 'of'.

[emperor]

I think it's "of Bow", but wasn't sure enough to tick the box.

[midnightmelody.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this project (http://www.ioe.ac.uk/newsEvents/27010.html)?

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

The version I know goes "I'm sure I don't know".

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

The Great Bell of Bow says "I'm sure I don't know", according to Cubland.

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of Mother Goose's Treasury upstairs extracted from my childhood boxes just so I could look up all 20-odd verses!
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"I'm sure I don't know," says the Great Bell at Bow.

Only 16 couplets, though.