Talk:Hickory Dickory Dock

message: Could someone link or at least mention the source of this rhyme to Richard Cromwell?   Thank you  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.182.71.135 (talk) 12:25, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Cromwell

message: Isn't this rhyme a limerick? The meter certainly matches. Meeve 09:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limerick 

message: Any one knows the author of "hickory dickory dock" nursery rhymes —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.78.217.176 (talk) 06:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHO is the Author 

message: I've been to Exeter, England, and the old clock in the Exeter town square was claimed to be the original Hickory Dickory dock clock (I think it said it next to the clock). Does anyone have proof of this, at least the claim of it? I have a picture of the clock, but not the plaque or anything. -IG-64 08:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exeter clock. 

message: I always knew this song as having the following melody:
E-F-G-F-E-D-E
E-E-G-F-D-E
E-E-E-G
G-F-F-A
G-A-G-F-E-D-C 
What is the other melody?? Georgia guy (talk) 23:58, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Delacorte Clock at the Central Park Zoo in New York, plays this tune (except, if memory serves, that there is a C instead of an E at the end of the first line.  (Not sure if it has the tune in C.  Whatever the key, it would be the tonic note.)) Kostaki mou (talk) 17:24, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two different melodies?? 

message: Add to Contents  
New lyrics:  
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
and down it come,
Hickory, dickory, dock
New meaning: 
The mouse in this version represents the computer input device and the clock represents time.  Mindy Scott is currently writing The New Babel as a free e-book called “Suddenly in Sanity” on the MINDOLOGY LIVE web site (WWW.MINDOLOGY.US).  In it she suggests that the entire universe was created with virtual reality technology and that a huge transformation for the better is about to occur.  
The words “and down it come” refer to the lies and misinformation we have been living with for the past 44 years.  
Mindy Scott (talk) 13:22, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. Please stop trying to promote your own, unpublished, book - Arjayay (talk) 14:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 November 2014 

message: 104.2.25.79 (talk) 00:58, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. The request you have made is blank. Stickee (talk) 01:14, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 November 2014 

message: I am skeptical that "the octagon ran down" and "the clock struck zero" appear in any version of the rhyme, let alone the most common modern version. Did I have a very deprived childhood, or is that something that needs to be fixed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.239.12 (talk) 15:21, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Its just vandalism.--SabreBD (talk) 19:40, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Octagon Ran Down? 

message: Is there any reliable evidence for a reputed second verse: "Dickory, dickory, dare, The pig flew up in the air. The man in brown, Soon brought him down, Dickory, dickory, dare" and for the reputed connection with Richard Cromwell? See, for example, this blog. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:50, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never heard of this verse or its alleged connection. I will see what I can find.--SabreBD (talk) 16:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: So far I have traced the verse to the US in 1914 and the UK in 1858. I think it will be worth including this verse as it has been around for some time and turns up in quite a lot of modern collections. However, the earliest source I can find for the theory is Albert Jacks' Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes from 2008, which is a good example of an unreliable source or less politely a pile of crap. I will have a further look and see if I can trace the earliest version of the verse and whether there is some earlier version of the theory, but if the verse is only 19thC it is a pretty unlikely connection.--SabreBD (talk) 16:43, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: That's very interesting. And I quite agree. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

text: I learned a variant from a 33rpm record I had as a child, circa 1963. After each "The clock rung 'x'", the recording paused long enough for a cuckoo clock to sound the appropriate number of "cuckoos". The second verse, "The clock rung two, The mouse said 'Whoo!'". The third verse, "The clock rung three, The mouse cried 'Whee!'". The fourth and final verse: "The clock rung four, And closed the door. Now the mouse can say no more! Hickory Dickory Dock!"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.160.151.162 (talk) 18:08, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second verse/ Cromwell?