I Went Into My Grandmother's Garden
DESCRIPTION: "I went into my father's/grandmother's garden/While going through the garden, I found a rusty/Irish farthing. I gave it to my mother To buy a baby brother" who may go to sea, or whom the singer may throw over the wall. Bbrother may catch 1, 2, 3, 4 fishes
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1853 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: travel gardening money commerce mother brother sailor
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 58, "(Going around the garden)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 178, "I went into my grandmother's garden" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #81, "(I went to my father's garden)" (1 text)
Roud #19301
NOTES [57 words]: Halliwell, who seems to have been the first to collect this, had it as a riddle, with the answer "A tobacco pipe" -- which I do not think a correct to the riddle as given. Nonetheless Beatrix Potter (who used several traditional riddles, especially in (The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin") used part of it in 1903's 'The Tailor of Gloucester." - RBW
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