Oranges and Lemons: The earliest known version - performed by Catherine King
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- A performance of the earliest known version of the first verse of the popular song ‘Oranges and Lemons’.
The music is performed by Catherine King.
This is an extract from the full-length lecture by Professor Christopher Page, “Medieval Music: The Lands of the Bell Tower”: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
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So I take it everyone who reads 1984 goes here to see exactly how the rhyme goes. It was driving me nuts only having the lyrics with no melody.
You didn’t sing it in school?
Now I wanna find the melody for "Under the chestnut tree, I sold you, you sold me"
You knew the next line!
Im reading 1984 now too lel.
Haha, yes!
"We're all watching Winston, tell us what will defeat the party" - O'brien 1984
Classic
Spoiler
I don’t know……….
2+2=4
@@benjaminhamilton1525I just finally realized why the old clock has 13 hours, 13=12
Two Sticks and Apple,
Ring ye Bells at Whitechapple,
Old Father Bald Pate,
Ring ye Bells Aldgate,
Maids in White Aprons,
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.
Thank you for that Fernando! There were some words there I didn't quite catch.
It's a little different from the scarier version we sang when we played the O&L game at children's parties in the 1950s. It was a scary game!
1984 anyone?
Yeah currently reading it, so far very interesting
I cry so far for Winston. Just don't read the end, is so sad.
Me!
yes
Me!
I’ve seen this song twice now- from Private Peaceful & the 1984! Both of which are classics
me too
Me from 1984 and dr who
Private Peaceful is why I am here as well!
Here because of 1984
Fun fact: the song oranges and lemons was first written in 1744 and sung by Tommy Thumb as a nursery rhyme was a way of remembering the topography of London by a widely illiterate population. People would have associated the bells and the churches with what happened in that part of town. Eventually it became a rhyme and there is evidence of it being a dance in 1655.
Another fun fact: many of the bells mentioned were cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry (near the Aldgate East tube station), which also cast the famous American Liberty Bell.
Am I the only one brought here by the book Private Peaceful
Nope.
Me to
I thought I was the only one!
Nope
Nope
I'm here after reading Book 1; Chapter 8 of George Orwell's 1984.
*The Frankenstein Chronicles*
Beautiful voice.
Huh, so in this earlier version there were less bells included and no mention of the candle or chopper - perhaps it was written before the other belltowers were put up and had become associated with executions?
All of the churches mentioned existed at the time of the song's earliest printing, which was 1744. I believe the idea that the song has anything to do with executions comes from the addition of the last candle and chopper lines, but the earliest known version that includes that comes from 1840. The added lines to the song do form part of a children's singing game, that was popular in places like England and Australia even up until the modern day in some areas. It is possible that the lines were made up by children themselves as part of the game, and that they then ended up becoming synonymous with the song - although that is mere conjecture. It does say something to the enduring appeal of the song and the game associated with it, that over a hundred years after it began to be played it still remained one of the most popular children's singing games in the playground of my primary school (in the 1970s).
I totally forgotten that we sang that at school playtime in the 70s .
does anyone else see the red balloon?
When?
Me looking around like: 👁👄👁
We all float down here
@@Jehejwjajshs yes we doo hahahha
We all float down here
I came here by the book 1984 by George Orwell✨
Me!
1984🙋🏻♂️
hadi 1 yıl sonra 1 kere daha dinle şu şarkıyı
@@kaboomyes9290 kdsfkjsdjkfs teşekkür ederim hatırlamış oldum
She:sings the song
Pennywise:am i a joke to you?
h e r e c o m e s a c h o p p e r t o c h o p o f f y o u r h e a d
The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastaisa.
Ring every church bell in the land for a full day, the following day that land would be a better place. Not because they've stopped but because they rang.
I'm Indian and as I child I remember singing what I suppose is the Indian version of this rhyme.. I find it quite interesting, I suppose the it came to India when it was colonised by Britain, perhaps vice versa
For anyone that's Indian and is wondering what rhyme I'm talking about, remember the "lal kile mein kya hua kya hua" rhyme?
Id love to hear it and see a translation.
Here because of Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful
Tamy X smae
So am I, still reading the book
Yo, who's here because of Private peaceful?
My bruda let me guess your school made uou
Yep, just finished a review of it for school
Anyone here because it’s actually one of the most famous and loviest English nursery rhymes from childhood?
You'll float too 🎈
Pastels Paradox no chop chop o well, how about let pennywise and the balloon float?
We all float
No 1984 here- as a little boy, my mom 🥰 used to sing me this song at bedtime, and I grew up in Illinois!
The mark of a true Londoner: born within the sound of the Bow bells.
Very sweet story.❤
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u predicted it 2?
Clash City Rockers and William Castle's version of The Old Dark House brought me here. Thank you so much Catherine King! Long live England!
Beautiful 😍
Old enough to have sung this, and played the game, in the school playground.
Here comes the candle to light you to bed
Here comes the chopper to chop off your head
Chip chop, chip chop
The last man’s dead!
Amazing
beautiful
catherine's 'got pipes'. thank goodness for people like her.
This song slaps
A lovely antique song
Je comprends rien mais je suis la parce que George Orwell en parle dans son live 1984
I came for the best part in the song and it’s not here 👌 ok
Here because of the Frankenstein Chronicles while looking for something else.
Compassion the foundations of society with a conscience
ty george orwell
It, 1984, The Wicker Man.
I played this game in like the 2 or 3rd grade and it was so fun
I think we did this version and not the ..semi-modern one
Thank you
I’m here because of pennywise the dancing clown. Pennywise Is heavily associated with the song oranges and lemons. Which is a song about old London where Mary popping resides. Both return every 20 years. 😊
i finally know what those creepy pennywise kids are singing lol. You’ll Float too🎈
I'm old, the version I knew was this: You owe me three farthings said the bells of St Martens, when will you pay me, said the bells of old Bailey. When I grow rich, said the bells at Shorditch, when will that be, said the bells of Stepney, I do not know said the great bell at Bow.
I've not even heard of Private Peaceful, but I can't remember not knowing this nursery rhyme. I must have absorbed it before I could even talk, I guess. Don't children learn nursery rhymes any more?
Oh no nursery rhymes are not politically correct at least here in the USA. I taught mother goose nursery rhymes to my middle school students as part of our poetry unit.
I'm hear because of 1984 :3
you found us Patrick...
hhhhh all respect or the guy who held his cough till she finished lol
Geeeeeooooorgiiiiiiie ~
🎈Would anyone like a balloon?🎈 It floats. 🎈We all float here.🎈 You'll float too.🎈
Ik this song from IT
"WHERE ARE YOU ALICE?!"
Who came here after watching it 🎈
I'm scared
Oh; you will be, you will be, when the choppers come
Grew up on this nursery rhyme...but watching 1984 🤯🤯🥺
1984 brought me here
When I am old..
We used to sing this in kindergarten and go under an arch this that was like a guillotine I’m very scared
At Aldgate..
We will meet...
And never
Cross
Traitors
River
To street..
I was brought here by the books Private Peaceful and 1984
from the age of doublethink - greetings!
Private peaceful - r.i.p Charlie one of the bravest soilders ever 💔😰
No but when I read in school I cried:/
@@chloebeeby486 same
she wore orange to match the song
Wow
right QUESTION when is this in *it* because i recognise nothing
Is in the Soundtrack of the movie... In the movie you can hear it when pennywise opens the door of the fridge, and when he transforms into the Lady of the painting.
PD: Sorry for my bad english.
Im coming from IT
We're all here because of IT or 1984
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Nope
Nope, we used to sing this at school
We used to sing it at children's parties, while playing the game that went with it.
I'm here because
IT chapter one
IT chapter two
I thought it was Shoreditch not fleet ditch?
This is the older version
This is the theme song for the IT movie
Those bells we're execution bells. Is that for kids ?
Don't you want a balloon? 🎈🎈🎈
shoutout winston
We all float down here 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Never been there
Am I the only one here, not from 1984 or IT or Private Peaceful, but from Ellen Raskin's "The Tattooed Potato"?
I came here looking for answer to Tartaria and pre rest historical factors.
The earliest known version contains the lyric "You owe me five fartings".
2+2=4
Wat do ya mean
You lie, 2+2=5, unless the party decides it does not
I'm here by 1984
Fun.
06.06.22
she forgot the head chopping part
The earliest known version didn't have that.
@@Theglitcher3vids Sadly
pov: youre here from private peaceful
A little princess brought me here.
1984といえばこの曲
It’s literally 1984!
Am i the only one that comes from White day?
Lovely voice but, surly the book wasn’t necessary
There is more than one version of the song.
Little did they know, it was once an execution song sang by children.
I know this song from 1984, not *It* lmao
IT
I think people knew this song mainly from The Wiggles
The Wiggles sang this song? Did their version have the head chopper bit? (a bit hard to see that included)
@@urdessstardancer9598 the Wiggles sung it years ago but I don't think it involved head chopping...
I miss them :(
@@ChaoticMushy I heard it from IT chapter 1 and IT chapter 2
Remember me when iam dead dead dead..........
Big joe brought me here (private peaceful)
Did you miss me Ritchie?
Because I missed you no one wants to play with the clown anyone
Who is watching in 1902?
float
Let them eat cake
Girly
*laughs in Pennywise*
who's here because of clockwork prince?