See-Saw, Margery Daw, Sold Her Bed and Lay On Straw

DESCRIPTION: "See-saw, Margery Daw, Sold her bed and lay upon straw; Was not she a dirty slut, To sell her bed and lie in the dirt?" Or ""...and lay upon straw. Sold her bed and lay upon hay, Piskey came and carried her away."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1765 (Mother Goose's Melody, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: home travel
FOUND IN: Britain(England) Ireland
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 336, "See-saw, Margery Daw" (2 texts)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #624, p. 248, ("See Saw, Margery Daw)"; cf. #578, p. 233, "(See, saw, Margery Daw)"; cf #622, p. 247, "(See saw, Margery Daw)"
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 7, "See-saw, maggoty daw" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 18, "(See, saw)" (1 txt)
Jack-PopGoesTheWeasel, p. 188, "See-Saw, Margery Daw" (1 text, probably combining versions)
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 92, "(See-saw, Margery Daw)" (1 short text)
Roud #13028
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "See-saw, Jack a Daw" (lyric form)
cf. "See-Saw, Margery Daw, Jacky Shall Have a New Master" (lyric form)
cf. "See-Saw, Marjorie Daw, The Old Hen Flew over the Malt House" (lyric form)
NOTES [47 words]: Roud lumps the various Margery Daw rhymes, which is certainly understandable, but they do not normally seem to have circulated as one piece, so I'd call them separate.
For background on the complex, see the notes to "See-Saw, Marjorie Daw, The Old Hen Flew over the Malt House." - RBW
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