Talk:The Farmer in the Dell

message: Why does the cow take the dog? What is a cow going to do with a dog? The rest of the choices make sense, but this one baffles me.
What is the dell?
I would also like to know what is the dell?
:It appears to already be on Wikipedia: Dell (landform) Mscudder 22:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The article's description does not match my single experience as a 5-year-old in 1957.  After each child took an additional child in, the taking child exited the middle and rejoined the circle, so the circle always remained.  Then the cheese is alone in the middle (with no one lower in the hierarchy to take).  The present description implies that you can have 8 children "inside" a "circle" of 1 or 2 children, which seems an unlikely way to do it.  (And, as you said, the cheese isn't alone, unless they leave the cheese out as a circle of one and there happens to be exactly the right number of children.)  --DanwWiki2 (talk) 17:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why

message: The circle game paragraph appears to be from: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/farmer.htm. I think it should be deleted, or at least cited properly. --BekiB 20:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circle Game Plagarism? 

message: Please stop vandalizing this page. It is not really that funny and other people will have to clean up after your mess. Thanks. 69.61.203.194 (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quite Enough Vandalism, Please. 

message: Why is the title "Farmer in the Dell", while throughout the article it's "in the Dale"? On Google hits, "Farmer in the Dell" beats "Farmer in the Dale" by about 350:1  Rojomoke (talk) 08:44, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely the line should be, “The farmer’s in the dell” with the “is”, rather than the less appropriate, “The farmer in the dell”? It also should be noted that the traditional British version seems to be “the farmer’s in his den”… Jock123 (talk) 18:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dell or Dale 

message: This was also referenced in the first episode of the 3rd season of The Big Bang Theory. 24.176.137.124 (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: and in the wire, first season, episode 5--91.97.80.218 (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop Culture 

message: On Saturday morning, December 5, 2009 on the Turner Classic Movie Channel (TCM), the last few minutes of a showing had children in the middle of the street in New York singing this song, dancing in a circle around one child. I was taken aback because I thought I heard the children singing "The Farmer kills the wife"; "The wife kills the child", and so on. This might be what they were singing, or I might have heard it wrong. It very well could be what they were singing, since the movie involves a man murdering his wife when he catches her in an adulterous act with the milkman.
I came here to find the lyrics of the song, as I do not remember singing it that way as a child. I think we used "The farmer takes a wife" and so forth.
I grew up in Virginia, born in 1960. As a child, this is one of the games that we played in a skipping around circle with one child in the center. I also believe that we would trade out the middle child with each verse. There were six kids in my family, and lots of neighborhood children who would gather daily, as we would entertain ourselves with skip rope jingles, string games, jacks, hand clapping songs and team games. We were very familiar with Mother Goose nursery rhymes; silly tricks and practical jokes were common amongst us. 
I went to Turner Classic Movie's website, and found the title of that movie to be "Street Scene". A synopsis of the movie can be found online at http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=91708. This webpage indicates that this movie is not yet available on home video; perhaps it could still be considered a viable documentation source. 
I hope you found this interesting to consider.
RiverWader (talk) 16:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just heard this on television 

message: There's nothing here about the origins of the wedding tradition of the bride and groom feeding each other wedding cake while the guests sing a verse of this song using the lyrics "the bride/groom feeds the groom/bride."  Does anyone know about this?76.210.251.172 (talk) 06:44, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wedding tradition 

message: I learned it as "Hie-Ho, the Merry-O".
Could have been changed to "Dairy-O"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 00:48, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Have also heard "Hie-Ho, the Merry-O".  Also "Hie-Ho, the Cherry-O"!  (talk) 19:22, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Derry-o"? 

message: Movie. ‘Street Scene’ .  1931
The farmer kills the wife.
The wife kills the child.
The child kills the nurse.
The nurse kills The dog.
Hi Ho the derry-o.
Is this the original version ? 2600:1017:B12B:17E2:E854:8C30:89FA:665 (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farmer in the Dell.