简单西蒙 (童谣)

《简单西蒙》（"Simple Simon"）是一首流行的英语摇篮曲。

简单西蒙 "Simple Simon"
威廉·华莱士·邓斯洛的歌曲插图，1901年版《鹅妈妈》
童谣
语言	英语
创作	英格兰
出版	1764年

歌词

这首歌的歌词是^[1]

Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Says the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got, Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.

起源

简单西蒙和馅饼商

现在这个版本的简单西蒙出自1764年首版的一本畅销故事书。^[1] 简单西蒙这个角色曾出现在伊丽莎白时代的畅销书及一首1685年的民谣《简单西蒙的不幸与其妻马洁丽的残忍》（Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty）中。^[1] 另外也可能与18世纪的一名乞丐西蒙·埃迪有关。^[2]

参考文献

1. I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.
2. Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford, Old and New London: Westminster and the western suburbs Volume 3 of Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Old and New London, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin: 207, 1880

外部链接

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