Nursery Rhymes And Songs

[casey]

Hi All

Does anyone know the origin of the song "The Big Ship sails on the Alley Alley O.

Regards Casey.

 

[Alf]

Casey have a look at this

https://www.rhymes.org.uk/a122-the-big-ship-sails.htm

 

[casey]

Thanks for the info Alf. I thought this may of been the answer.

Casey

 

[Pedrocut]

Come across by chance, noted as a nursery rhyme.

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks,
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

 

[Covroad]

Come across by chance, noted as a nursery rhyme.

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks,
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

Not the happiest of nursery rhymes

Lizzie Borden's parents found dead

On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden are found hacked to death in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home. Andrew was discovered in a pool of blood on the

www.history.com

 

[COLINSTARK]

Hi All

Does anyone know the origin of the song "The Big Ship sails on the Alley Alley O.

Regards Casey.

Thelma

Casey have a look at this

https://www.rhymes.org.uk/a122-the-big-ship-sails.htm

I understand that an old definition of a 'cutting' 6?369

Hi All

Does anyone know the origin of the song "The Big Ship sails on the Alley Alley O.

Regards Casey.

The Alley refers to the old word for" cutting". The rhyme refers to the Manchester Ship Canal which is a 36 mile "Alley" from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey to Trafford Park in Manchester. The rhyme was sung in the song Matchstalk men and Matchstalk cats and dogs sung by Brian and Michael WHICH somehow ?!! got to NUMBER 1?? IN THE CHARTS.