I'll Tell You a Story

DESCRIPTION: "I'll tell you a story About (Jack a Nory/Johnny Magory), Will I begin it? Yes! That's all that's in it." Or "...Nory, And now my story's begun, I'll tell you another, Of Jack and his brother, ANd now my story is done."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1784 (Gammer Gurton's Garland, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: nonballad wordplay
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 9, "Johnny Magory" (1 text)
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 260, "I'll Tell You a Story" (1 text)
Roud #19694
File: BAAI009C

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