Cut Your Nails on Monday (Finger-Nails)

DESCRIPTION: "Cut them on Monday, you cut them for health, Cut them on Tuesday, you cut them for wealth, Cut them on Wednesday, you cut them for news... Cut them on Saturday, see your true love tomorrow, Cut them on Sunday, ill luck will be with you all the week."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #537, p. 219, "(Cut them on Monday, you cut them for health)"
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 47, "Cut Your Nails Monday" (1 text)
Roud #20970
File: Dolb047

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