See-Saw, Margery Daw, Jacky Shall Have a New Master

DESCRIPTION: "See, saw, Margery Daw, Little Jackey shall have a new master; Little Jacky shall have but a penny a day, Because he can't work any faster." Additional verses may have sexual or other implications.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad servant
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 335, "See-saw, Margery Daw" (1 text)
Greig/Duncan8 1683, "See-Saw" (1 text, 1 tune)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #622, #624, pp. 647-248, "(See Saw)"
Jack-PopGoesTheWeasel, p. 188, "See-Saw, Margery Daw" (1 text, probably combining versions)
Roud #13028
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "See-Saw, Marjorie Daw, The Old Hen Flew over the Malt House" (lyric form)
cf. "See-Saw, Margery Daw, Sold Her Bed and Lay On Straw" (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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