#Simple simon nursery rhyme series

What a harsh world he lives in, how troubling that he doesn’t even have a penny? I’ve walked past so many pennies lying on the ground and on the sidewalk.

You just have to give the guy credit for trying, right? Perhaps he has had free pie before and expects that all pie is free. Simon has no money, not one penny, and yet he has the boldness to ask for a pie. We could assume mince meat or chicken pot pie, and probably not a French silk or a lemon cream pie. We do not know from this context what kind of pie is available from this particular pie man. He can’t find the corndog stand or the cotton candy or the funnel cakes so he asks a pie guy for some of his yummy pie. And amidst this world of great confusion, Simple Simon comes onto the scene. England, Ireland and Scotland were fighting amongst themselves about who is the most popular and most powerful, and whilst they’re not looking France is headed to the new world to establish some colonies in Texas and along the Mississippi River. The incredible story of Simple Simon has been floating about since the late 1600’s, a rough time in world history. Let’s first of all put this into a historical setting. We will begin our study with the story of Simple Simon. Maybe you watched videos where the Mother Goose stories were dramatized by cheezy actors and actresses… Wherever you learned these delightful bits of posie and prose, I strongly encourage you to revisit them now that you’re all grown up and have a world of experience in your pocket. Maybe you heard nursery rhymes as a bedtime story.

If you are like me, you learned the rhymes as a small child without even realizing or understanding the function of memorization.

#Simple simon nursery rhyme series

Today Mother Goose begins a new and important series about nursery rhymes.