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Say the bells at Old Bailey When I grow rich Say the bells at Shoreditch When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney I'm sure I don't know Says the great bell of Bow Here comes a candle to light you to bed Here comes a chopper to chop off your head Spoken: Oranges and Lemons and the bells of old London Town | Inspiring City Random Wanderings around London looking at Street Art and other things Oranges and Lemons and the bells of old London Town by inspiringcity One of the most recognised English language nursery rhymes is the famous Oranges and Lemons. The rhyme works its way through a number of famous old London churches and I’ve often wondered where those churches were. Every morning I walk past a pub called the Bow Bells which is a great, traditional, quite earthy east end boozer painted bright orange and with the full nursery rhyme written outside stuck to the wall on a green board. The pub is also just down the road from ‘Bow Church’ which is thought by some to be the location of the ‘Great bell of Bow’. This is the last bell to be mentioned in the nursery rhyme.

Unfortunately for Bow Church however the common consensus has it that the real location of the Great Bell of Bow is actually at the St Mary le Bow church on Cheapside in the city which is about 3 miles the other way. Bow church though is old enough to have been around when the rhyme was written and its bells would certinaly have been heard by many. But then that’s part of the fun of the nursery rhyme. What does it mean and where did those lines come from? The words were written at a time when London was very different and the churches of the city would have been utterly dominant not only in terms of their impact on the skyline but in terms qof their influence on social life as well. In terms of genealogy it appears that the first recorded version of the rhyme appeared in 1744 but not in the form that it is known now. Prior to that it is likely that it will have been well known and there is evidence that a dance known as oranges and lemons dates back to 1655. So let’s go through the rhyme, the rest of this blog post will look at the churches, where they are and what the words refer to.

There are lots of theories about why the song was written in the first place and a quick search of google will come up with loads of them. My favourite is that the the rhyme simply developed over time as a means to remember the different areas of London which will have been defined by their churches. So onto the rhyme and in homage to the Bow Bells pub, the version I’ll be using is the version written on the outside of the pub. ‘Happy go up, and happy go down To ring the bells of London Town’. ‘oranges and lemons say the bells of St.Clements’ St. Clements Church on Eastcheap is where we start our journey. There is some debate over whether the true 'oranges and lemons' church was here or St. Clements Dane in the Strand. It would seem however that the majority of opinion places the iconic bells here on Eastcheap. The oranges and lemons of the song refer to the cargo that would have been offloaded close to the church when the Thames was a lot further in than it is today. ‘Bullseyes and targets say the bells of St.

Margarets’ In the heart of the city and next door to the bank of England, St Margaret Lothbury sits unobtrusively amongst the buildings around it. The church was burnt down in the great fire but rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1690. It is thought that the bullseyes and targets refer to the fact that archery was practised in fields nearby. ‘Brickbats and tiles say the bells of St. Giles’ Bang in the heart of the Barbican, St. Giles looks striking against the brutalist backdrop of the Barbican high rises. The reference to brickbats and tiles are thought to refer to materials used by builders nearby. As a church its probably also one of the most interesting. Oliver Cromwell was married here. Sir Martin Frobisher, John Speed and John Milton are buried here and Ben Johnson, John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe were baptised here. ‘Halfpence and farthings say the bells of St. Martins’ St. Martins Orgar on Martin Lane was pretty much destroyed in the Great Fire of London leaving only the bell tower which is now occupied by a firm of solicitors.

It is thought that the reference to halfpence and farthings is a nod to the money lenders who operated in the area. The line of the rhyme is sometimes better known as 'you owe me five farthings'. ‘Pancakes and fritters say the bells of St. Peters’ St. Peters on Cornhill is hard to spot, hidden as it is amongst a few tiny alleys. From Cornhill itself it doesn't look like much at all so obscured is the frontage. It is thought that the pancakes and fritters in the rhyme refer to the types of food that were sold nearby. Cornhill after all was the site of a corn market that dated back to the Roman era. Like many others the church dates back a long time but was destroyed in the fire of London and then rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. ‘Two sticks and an apple say the bells of Whitechapel’ The only part of the rhyme that doesn't refer to a church is the bells of Whitechapel. This is because it was the Whitechapel bell foundry in which the bells of London were forged. Amazingly it is still operating today with the likes of the Liberty Bell and Big Ben on its resume.

The origin of the 'two sticks and an apple' is hard to agree upon although it could be to do with the shape of the hand bells produced at the foundry which might have resembled toffee apples. ‘Maids in white aprons say the bells of St. Katherines’ St. Katherine Cree dates back to 1108 and takes its name from an abbreviation of Christ church. It actually survived the great fire of London although it destroyed a lot of Leadenhall market which was nearby. The 'maids in white aprons' are thought to refer to the costumes of women working in the market selling meat, fish and poultry. ‘Pokers and tongs say the bells of St. Johns’ St Johns chapel is the oldest church to be featured in the rhyme. It is located within the white tower of the famous Tower of London. It is thought that the pokers and tongs referred to might have something to do with the methods of torture used on prisoners in the tower. ‘Kettles and pans say the bells of St. Annes’ Now knowns St Annes Lutheran Church, it nestles up next to the remains of the old Roman fort and near to the old London Wall.

It was destroyed in the great fire but then rebuilt by Wren. It then was hit in the second world war by a bomb and had to be rebuilt once more. The kettles and pans in the rhyme are thought to refer to the utensils from the local coppersmiths who worked in the area. ‘Old father baldpate say slow bells of Aldgate’ St. Botolph without Aldgate is on the edge of the city and at one point became known as the prostitutes church because it was here that they would solicit their wares. It is thought that the reference to old father baldpate relates to st botolph who apparantely had a bald head. Another interpretation however links old father baldpate to the prostitutes of the area with old father baldpate meaning something else entirely. ‘You owe me ten shillings say the bells of St. Helens’ St. Helens Bishopsgate can be found directly underneath the imposing landmark of the Gherkin. It is thought that the 'you owe me ten shillings' refers to a former lord mayor of london called John Spencer who had a notorious reputation as a money lender.

‘When will you pay me say the bells of Old Bailey’ The bells of Old Bailey are actually the bells of St. Sepulchre without Newgate which is opposite the Old Bailey, the site of which stands on the former Newgate prison. The bell of St. sepulchre rang out during executions. It is thought that the phrase 'when will you pay me' refers to the debtors interred at Newgate. ‘When I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch’ St. leonards in Shoreditch was located in the old theatre district of London and frequented by actor types. Shakespeare had his first theatre nearby and Richard Burbage a contemporary of his from the time is buried there. The area itself was very poor and it is thought that the phrase 'when will I grow rich' refers to the hope of riches that the inhabitants of Shoreditch must have had. ‘Pray when will that be say the bells of Stepney’ St. dunstans of Stepney was an important church for mariners and is one of the oldest churches in London.

it is possible the the phrase 'when will that be' might refer to the hopeful wishes of loved ones wondering when their sailor sons or husbands would be coming back from sea. ‘I do not know say the great bells of Bow’ Probably not the church referred to in the nursery rhyme but Bow Church is historic and situated just on the old border with Essex. The more likely option and certinaly the location of the famous Bow Bells which, if born within the sound of them, make you a true Cockney. The great bell of Bow could also refer to the principal curfew bell that was located in the church and rung each day at 9pm The rhyme has obviously changed throughout the years but still retains its echoes of yesteryear remembering as it does the areas in which the churches stood and what defined them.

Some great links on the internet that helped with the research for this piece are: Oranges & lemons say the bells… | Spitalfields Life Oranges & lemons say the bells… December 23, 2009 by the gentle author When Richard Ardagh was a child, he attended St Clement Danes School in Hertfordshire and once a year the whole school went down to the church of St Clement Danes in the Strand for a special service to commemorate their founding by the churchwardens in 1844. One of the songs they sang every year was “Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements…” a traditional rhyme referring to the different peals of bells at six churches in the vicinity of the City of London. Everyone knows the game in which the singers file in pairs through an arch made by two players facing each other and on the final word ” …dead” they drop their arms to trap the pair passing through. This pair form another arch, so you get a line of arches and intensifying experience for those left in the game.

There has been enormous speculation about the origin of this, including child sacrifice, public executions and Henry VIII’s marital strife, but these final lines are not present in the earliest printed version of 1744 in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book, suggesting they were added later : Two Sticks and Apple, Ring the Bells at Whitechapple / Old Father Bald Pate, Ring the Bells at Aldgate / Maids in White Aprons, Ring the Bells at St Catherines / Oranges and Lemmons, Ring the Bells at St Clemens / When will you pay me? Ring the Bells at Old Bailey / When I am rich, Ring the Bells at Fleetditch / When will that be? Ring the Bells at Stepney / When I am old, Ring the Bells at St Paul’s. Many years after leaving school, and studying Fine Art and then Graphic Design at Central St Martins, Richard Ardagh found himself living by Brick Lane in Bacon St and, passing St Leonard’s Shoreditch regularly, the rhyme came back into his mind.

So when the possibility of collaborating with Graham Bignell at the New North Press came up, it was a natural choice to make a print of “Oranges and lemons…” and they discovered they had tapped into something popular because the limited edition of 150 sold out. “We found we both shared an interest in East End history, and nursery rhymes seemed a good starting point – things that were in the common consciousness but that people didn’t know what they meant”, Richard told me when I visited him at the New North Press in Coronet St beside Hoxton Sq last week, as we stood chatting between the magnificent Albion Printing Press and the drawers of Graham Bignell’s precious collection of wooden type stacked up to the ceiling. This was the press they used to print “Oranges and Lemons…”, though the ambitious scale of the print itself (over a metre high) required printing the text in two separate panels and putting the paper through the press twice. Richard clearly relished the opportunity to try out some of Graham’s historic display faces. “Showing off typefaces gives you an excuse to use different tones of voice, it was almost a conversation”, he said, enthusing about his collaboration with Graham whom he spoke of reverentially.

“I think of it as an apprenticeship in letterpress”, he added before lapsing into silence as he placed a piece of paper in the press. It was a privilege to observe the atmosphere of the printers at work. A thoughtful, slightly built man, softly-spoken, with short curly blonde hair, a straggly beard and long fingers, Richard cuts an almost monastic figure working here at the press with quiet concentration. And when he pointed out a picture on the wall of William Morris working in his printing shop, that he likes to keep in the corner of his vision, I realised that Richard would be completely at home there. Richard and Graham chose to follow the success of “Oranges and lemons…” with a second large letterpress print, “Pop! goes the Weasel”, another rhyme with an East End connection. “I cycled past the Eagle every day, so I found myself humming it!” admitted Richard. “Pop” means to pawn and “weasel” is Cockney rhyming slang, “weasel and stoat” for coat.

With raffish unsentimental humour, this nursery rhyme, about pawning a coat to buy drink, speaks of a life of poverty that was the commonplace in this neighbourhood in the mid-nineteenth century when it originated. If you go to the Eagle in Shepherdess Walk beside the City Rd, which was established as a music hall in 1825 and rebuilt as a pub in 1901, they still have the text on the bar room wall. I admire what Richard and Graham are doing because they are craftsmen working with skill and understanding of this arcane medium, and this gives the work a dignity and rigor that transcends the proliferation of wood block pastiche that I have seen around. If you want to see the process for yourself you can watch a film of Richard and Graham at work printing “Pop! goes the Weasel” by clicking here . A few copies are still available from New North Press , and you can examine Richard Ardagh’s complete portfolio of work at You may be interested in this: Innocent’s Song, a ghost story for ‘Oranges and Lemons’ Day Oranges And Lemons say the bells of St.

Clement's "You owe me five farthings" say the bells of St. Martin's "When will you pay me?" say the bells of Old Bailey "When I grow rich" say the bells of Shoreditch "When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney "I do not know" say the great bells of Bow "Here comes a candle to light you to bed And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!” Words & Music: Traditional Orchestral Arrangement: Rick Benbow NEW: Free Download Of The Week! You will find one free song per week, along with our featured artist of the week: Free Nursery Rhymes Download . You can download the track for one week, then it will be replaced by another song. So make sure to visit the site once per week, you don't wanna miss these songs! For more information, ’behind-the-scenes’ videos and more visit our Facebook page. This song was released on The Nursery Rhyme Collection 1 Find this children's favorite on ‘The Nursery Rhyme Collection 1’ and also on our latest release ‘30 Best Traditional Nursery Rhymes For Children’ Origin and background Oh yes!

There are nursery rhymes - very few, but they do exist - in which the Stuarts don‘t play any role. You can think whatever you want about the Stuarts, but there is no doubt that they were the most powerful source of inspiration for the english nursery rhymes. There are several theories about the meaning of this truly historic Nursery Rhyme, but let's begin with the one that seems to be the most convincing at first glance. Following this theory, someone bought oranges and lemons near the church of St Clements, but was not able to pay for them. He was brought to court (Old Bailey) and asked when he was going to pay, but being poor (Shoreditch), he said he would when he grew rich. Someone (Stepney) asked when that is going to be, and someone else (Bow) answered that he didn’t know, probably believeing it never would happen. Unable to pay, he got cut his head off. As you can already see from this information, time has indeed changed.

Once, it would seem, you could get your head cut off for some pennies, today the city of London can burn billions of pounds and the people responsible are rewarded - nobody thinks about sending them to court. There has been much progress during the last centuries! This theory is based on the specific characteristics of the locations mentioned in the song. "Oranges and lemons" say the bells of St. Clement's Most probably the church mentioned is St. Clement Church, Eastcheap, near the London Bridge and the Thames. There is some dispute between different parishes, all claiming to be the church the song refers too, but actually that has no importance here at all, because all of these churches (although there is only one with the name St. Clement) are near the wharf where fruit from around the world was unloaded from the ships. For the meaning of the song, it doesn’t therefore make any difference if the song refers to the church of St. Clement or any other church, provided the church is close to the wharf or to the Leadenhall Market, the place the fruit was transported to be sold. "You owe me five farthings" say the bells of St. Martin's In St.

Martins Lane is the church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Whether the actual church is the one refered to in the song or not depends on when the text of this version of the song was added to the melody of “Oranges and lemons“, published for the first time in 1655 without text. If the text was added after 1724 it can t be the actual church. If the text was added before 1724 you see the church the song refers to on the photo. Although we can find a lot of information about this street on the internet, for instance here: we cannot find any information allowing us to better understand why the bells of St. Martin-in-the-Fields say “you owe me five farthings“. It could easily be any other church! The interesting point is the mention of a concrete sum - five farthings. For the people outside of England, the farthing was a currency in England from the thirteenth century until 1961, when it was no longer accepted. A farthing is a quarter penny, five farthings are therefore one penny and a quarter. In the seventeenth century half a loaf of bread cost ½ penny.

There is no way to find out how many oranges one might get for a penny, but it is to be supposed that it wouldn’t be many! Why this unfortunate person run up depts to buy oranges AND lemons is unclear. There is no doubt that both of them are citrus fruits, but they are used for completely different things. Oranges are used like apples, cherries or pears - one just eats them. Lemons are used in some countries to flavour fish and many other things, but rarely consumed entirely (the Persians consume them entirely - with salt. Eughh!) . The only thing they have in common, from a consumer point of view, is the fact that both of them are rich in Vitamin C. That could be a reason why someone may run up debts to buy oranges and lemons. He/she or someone near to him/her was suffering from scurvy, and although it was only really known from 1747 that scurvy could be helped with oranges and lemons, when James Lind discovered the relationship, there is some proof that this was generally known before. A logical reason to run into debts buying oranges and lemons might be to prevent someone beloved dying from scurvy.

"When will you pay me?" say the bells of Old Bailey Nowadays Old Bailey is the Central Criminal Court, named after the street where it is located. Important criminal cases are dealt with there. In relationship to the song, two questions arise. First, is the actual building the one the song refers to and second, is it plausible that minor offences were treated at Old Bailey. First: The photo shows the actual building. In order to know if this is the building the song refers to we would need more information about the time the text of the song was composed, because Old Bailey has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The actual building seen now dates from 1907, and therefore must have nothing to do with the building in the song. Nowadays only important cases are dealt with at Old Bailey, but perhaps in the seventeenth century, the time the song was probably composed, minor offences were dealt with on the site as well, although it is not very plausible that it was all of them. In the seventeenth century London had approximately 400,000 inhabitants and it is to be supposed that each day there were several hundreds of “criminal acts“ of this kind.

In any case too many for one building, even if the average time for one trial was only half an hour. They were able to do this because trials were very short, averaging perhaps half an hour per case. In a typical day early in the history of the Proceedings the Court might hear between 15 and 20 cases. source: The law system in the seventeeth century was certainly foolish, there’s no doubt, but it is not true, as suggested by the song and spread through the comments about it all over the internet, that petty larceny got punished with the death penalty. Of Theft Under 1 Shilling This verdict reduced the charge against the convict to petty larceny, which meant that the defendant was punished by a fine, whipping, or, increasingly from 1718, by transportation. 1.25 pennies (five farthings) was roughly 0.104 shillings. For this amount of money nobody was sentenced to death, at the most he may be transported to the United States or Australia, where he may have a better life.

"When I grow rich" say the bells of Shoreditch We have already seen that is plausible through certain circumstances to run into debt buying oranges and lemons. Another question may be - how much time would it take to go from Shoreditch to St. Clement Church Eastcheap to buy oranges and lemons. It would take, if we believe google, six minutes by car, or let us say half an hour walking. That’s quite a walk for some oranges and lemons and still more if we take into account that more or less any fruit would have had the same effect, because most fruit contains Vitamin C, something people of the time were not aware of. Concerning the church mentioned in the song, this time we have a better chance that it is the church we still see there today, because the current building dates from 1740. It is often argued that the buyer of the oranges and lemons comes from the poorer boroughs - the reason why he was not able to pay. This was at least true in the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, when Shoreditch was outside the city of London and therefore an ideal location for theatres and other immoral institutions!

It was the location of the famous Curtain Theatre, where such immoral theatricals were played - like those of a certain William Shakespeare! Later, when the silk weavers moved into the area, it became a wealthy borough and it become still wealthier when the furniture industry settled there. It is only later, in the nineteenth century, with the decline of the silk and furniture industries, that the borough became once again poor. The affirmation often spread in relationship to this song, that Shoreditch, Stepney and Bow were poor boroughs, is only true for the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. "When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney These bells are the bells of the church St Dunstan's. As in the cases before we can not be sure that the actual church is the one the song refers to, because the church has been modified several times. Although the church is very old, it was mentioned for the first time in 952, it seems that it was sparsely populated until the 19th century. Little information is available about the social status of the people living there in 17th and 18th century.

The information spread through comments about this song, that all these boroughs were populated by poor people, is perhaps misleading. It is more likely that the different bells very chosen for alliteration and rhyme. "Oranges and lemons" say the bells of St. Clement's => lemons and Clements "You owe me five farthings" say the bells of St. Martin's => farthing and Martin’s "When will you pay me?" say the bells of Old Bailey => pay me and Bailey "When I grow rich" say the bells of Shoreditch => rich and Shoreditch "When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney => that be and Stepney "I do not know" say the great bells of Bow => know and Bow "Here comes a candle to light you to bed And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!” It is well possible that the origins of the song goes back to an incident similar to the one described (someone bought some fruit for example but was not able to pay it) but later the text was changed in order to fit better with the rhyme. The interpretations given in the comments about this song don’t fit very well with the historical facts.

"I do not know" say the great bells of Bow Perhaps this is the church the song refers to. The Bow Church, the parish church of St Mary and Holy Trinity in Stratford / Bow is located on the Bow road and was built in 1311, but no information is available as to whether it has been modified since that time or not. No evidence is given for the widely spread affirmation that Bow was a poor borough. It is known only that in the 17th century, Bow was a cattle market and center for meat packing. Due to the slaughter of cattle there was large supply of bones, well suited to make bone china, a fine porcelain produced by adding bone ash. In 1748, Thomas Frye from Bow porcelain factory (East-London, Stratford le Bow), got a patent on a special procedure to produce bone porcelain. If we look at the photo the affirmation that Bow was a poor borough becomes more doubtful.

"Here comes a candle to light you to bed And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!” It is often said that these verses mean that the person who was unable to pay for his/her oranges and lemons had his head cut off, because the inability to pay was treated like robbery. This affirmation is false for two reasons. Although the judicial system in the 16th and 17th century was a little strange, the inability to pay was never treated as robbery - and even a robber wouldn t have had his/her head cut off for five farthings. It is quite possible that initially the song was about poverty, but afterwards the text was changed to fit better with the rhyme. There are a lot of children‘s games associated with the song - one of them works like this. Two children form an arch with their arms and all the other children pass beneath the arch in a circle and sing the song. Every time a child passes beneath the arch the two children lower their arms and "catch" the child, but raise them again to let him pass, until the final lines, "Here comes a candle to light you to bed And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!” are reached.

This child remains caught inside the arms and is ruled out of the game. oranges and lemons - 必应 Sign in Oranges and Lemons "Oranges and Lemons" is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No 13190. Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great bell of Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Oranges and Lemons As a game The song is used in a children's singing game with the same name, in which the players file, in pairs, through an arch made by two of the players (made by having the players face each other, raise their arms over their head, and clasp their partners' hands).

The challenge comes during the final lines: Here comes a candle to light you to bed. Here comes a chopper to chop off your head. (Chip chop, chip chop, the last man's dead.) On the last word, the children forming the arch drop their arms to catch the pair of children currently passing through, who are then "out" and must form another arch next to the existing one. In this way, the series of arches becomes a steadily lengthening tunnel through which each set of two players have to run faster and faster to escape in time. Alternative versions of the game include: children caught "out" by the last rhyme may stand on a pressure plate behind one of the children forming the original arch, instead of forming additional arches; and, children forming "arches" may bring their hands down for each word of the last line, while the children passing through the arches run as fast as they can to avoid being caught on the last word. It was often the case, in Scottish playgrounds, that children would pair into boy and girl and the ones "caught" would have to kiss. Ring ye Bells a St. Catherines, Oranges and Lemons, Ring ye bells at St.

Clements, When will you pay me, Ring ye Bells at ye Old Bailey, When I am Rich, Ring ye Bells at Fleetditch, When will that be, Ring ye Bells at Stepney, When I am Old, Ring ye Bells at Pauls. There is considerable variation in the churches and lines attached to them in versions printed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which makes any overall meaning difficult to establish. The final two lines of the modern version were first collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the 1840s. Oranges and Lemons was the name of a square-four-eight-dance, published in Playford's, Dancing Master in 1665, but it is not clear if this relates to this rhyme. Similar rhymes naming churches and giving rhymes to their names can be found in other parts of England, including Shropshire and Derby, where they were sung on festival days, on which bells would also have been rung. The identity of the churches is not always clear, but the following have been suggested, along with some factors that may have influenced the accompanying statements: St. Martin's may be St Martin Orgar in the city, or St.

Martin-in-the-Fields near Trafalgar Square. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate (opposite the Old Bailey) is near the Fleet Prison where debtors were held. St Leonard's, Shoreditch is just outside the old city walls St Dunstan's, Stepney is also outside the city walls Bow is St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside St. Helen's, in the longer version of the song, is St Helen's Bishopsgate, in the city. St. Clements's may be St Clement Danes or St Clement Eastcheap both of which are near the wharves where merchantmen landed citrus fruits. Oranges and Lemons Cultural references The song is one of the nursery rhymes most commonly referred to in popular culture. These include George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), where it is used as a snippet of nursery rhyme part of which the protagonist Winston Smith cannot remember. Various characters contribute snippets of the rhyme as the book goes on, and the last lines figure symbolically into the closing events of the second section. A setting of the full Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book version for choir was written by Bob Chilcott.

Entitled "London Bells", it is the third movement of "Songs and Cries of London Town". Benjamin Till composed music based upon the nursery rhyme and it was performed in 2009 at St Mary Le Bow Church, London to honour 150 years of the great bell, Big Ben. In the dystopian future of the video game Half-Life 2 (2004), oranges and lemons can be seen in graffiti on walls as symbols of the Resistance. This is a reference to the poem as it was used in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (2008), two lesser villains recite the rhyme to summon the man Jack. Oranges & Lemons | Nursery Rhymes | Popular Nursery Rhymes by KidsCamp - YouTube Oranges & Lemons | Nursery Rhymes | Popular Nursery Rhymes by KidsCamp Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

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Say the bells of Stepney I'm sure I don't know Says the great bell at Bow Here comes a candle to light you to bed Here comes a chopper to chop off your head! 1. What are "Tiddlers" and "Bigguns"? 2. Where is the boys' father? How does Tommo feel about this? 3. Why do you think Molly wanted to be with the Peaceful boys "all the time"? 4. Why do you think Grandma Wolf is ashamed to be part of the family? 5. What does the phrase "salt of the earth" mean? Chapter 2 1. What do we know about school life from chapters 1 and 2? 2. How does Tommo feel about his mother? 3. Describe the following two characters, based on what you know from chapters 1 and 2: Grandma Wolf, the Colonel. 4. Why did Big Joe eat rabbit droppings? 5. Do you think Tommo and Charlie bullied Big Joe? Justify uour answer. 6. Do you think Jimmy Parsons is a bully? Justify your answer. Chapter 3 1. Why does Tommo write "I miss him already"? 2. Why does Grandma Wolf favour Molly over the boys?

3. How did Charlie and Tommo make sure there was enough food for the family to eat? 4. Explain why you think Tommo "had never been so happy." 5. What did Grandma Wolf hate? 6. What did the Peaceful boys take Molly when she was ill? Chapter 4 1. Why does Grandma Wolf react in the way she does when she is taken to see the boys after they have been caught poaching? 2. Throughout the centuries, arguably until recently, landowners (such as the Colonel) have often also been magistrates. A magistrate is someone who has limited judicial powers to try minor criminal cases. So, they're a kind of minor judge. What is the initial punishment the Colonel gives the boys for poaching? What was the punishment subsequently changed to? Explain in your own words. 3. Why do you think Charlie and Molly now call Grandma Wolf "Wolfwoman"? 4. What do we learn about Grandma Wolf and the Colonel in this chapter? 5. Use just one word to describe how Tommo and Charlie regarded the airplane pilot 6. Who caught the boys poaching? 7. What were the consequenses? Chapter 5 1.

At the very beginning of the chapter, there is a scene about Bertha. Is there a difference between how Charlie reacts to Tommo, to his mother, and to the Colonel? Explain. 2. Why did Molly stop seeing the Peaceful family? 3. Why does Tommo have a flashback to this particular part of his life (the haystack, the scene with the confrontation between the two mothers, the conversation with Charlie? 4. What reason did the Colonel have for killing Bertha? 5. Is it ever accaptable to be a thief? 6. What was the relevance of Sarajevo? Chapter 6 1. What does Tommo mean with "It's no good wishing for the moon, no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish, Tommo. Remember. Remembrances are real." 2. "they were singing when we got there, Farmer Cox in full voice". Why was the farmer singing? 3. How did the community react when they heard about Big Joe going missing? What does this tell you about the community? 4. What makes the end of chapter 6 worthy of Tommo remembering? 5. How did Charlie hurt his ankle? Chapter 7 1.

Flashback: what does Tommo mean exactly when he talks about the church steeple in Albert "hanging down like a broken promise"? 2. Since Big Joe was found, it seems that the community spirit has become tighter. Explain how this contrasts with Charlie and Molly's wedding. 3. Provide three reasons why Tommo decided to join the army, before he found out you had to be seventeen and so didn't join (as he was only 15). 4. Describe the events that led to Tommo and Charlie joining the army 5. What did Grandma Wolfe write to Mother about? Chapter 8 Chapter 8 mainly relates the story of the confrontation between Charlie and Sergeant Hanley. As we know, Molly asked Charlie to write her letters to tell her how he was getting on. Write a letter to Molly, from Charlie, in which he recounts his encounter with Sergeant Hanley (200-250 words). 1. Describe the relationship between Sergeant Hanley and Charlie. 2. Is it important to respect authority? Justify your answer. 3. What are the main features of a recount text? Chapter 9 1. What can you say about the flashback Tommo has at the beginning of the chapter? 2.

"The Wolfwoman .. smiles all the time "Like Lady Muck". Who is Lady Muck? 3. Why would the German thank Tommo and the rest of the patrol? ("Danke, danke sehr.") 4. Who are Fritz and the Hun? 5. List ten words form the German language with defintions. Chapter 10 1. When Tommo describes the trenches around Ypres, he says "In places they were little more than shallow dilapidated ditches affording us precious little protection, and the mud here was even deeper than before. There was a sickly-sweet stench about the place that had to be moret han stagnant mud and water. I knew well enough what it was, we all did, but no one dared speak of it." What is Tommo referring to? At the beginning of this chapter, we learn that even more men are needed to fight the war. Read the following poem and answer the questions below. (You may need to use the internet to research some of the questions) Chapter 11 Draw an image for each stanza Recruitment On the railway carriage wall Stuck the poster and I thought of the hands that penned the call.

Could go and fight the Hun; Can't you see them Thanking God they're over forty one. Girls with feathers, vulgar songs, Washy verse on England's need God and don't we damn-well know How the message ought to read. Lads, you're wanted, over there Shiver in the morning dew More poor devils, like yourselves Waiting to be killed by you. E.A. MacKintosh 1. Who wrote the recruitment posters? Use two words from the poem, and then translate these into your own explanation. 2. What is the relevance of "girls with feathers"? (Tip: look up "white feathers world war one" on the internet) 3. What does the last stanza of the poem mean? 4. Write your own poem based on recruiting soldiers. Chapter 12 1. Explain the following in your own words: "cowardice" (second paragraph), "firing squad" (third paragraph). 2. Sergeant Hanley orders the soldiers to go over the top and attack the German line, despite the fact that the German dugout they are all in is surrounded by Germans. Charlie deliberately disobeys the order and faces a court martial.

Choose ONE of the following: - write a letter from Hanley to his superior officers explaining the charges of insubordination against Charlie - write a letter from Charlie to the superior officers in which he defends himself. Use 100-150 words. 3. Do you think Private Peaceful is guilty? Chapter 13 1. Look at the structure of the book. When do you realise which brother is going to be executed? 2. What is the significance of the watch given to Charlie by Captain Wilkes now? 3. What is a posthumous pardon? 4. The clip above is taken from the final episode of comedy series Blackadder Goes Forth (BBC). Watch the entire clip, and give your reaction.

Question: In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'When I am rich'?
Answer: Shoreditch