The Rose is Red, The Grass is Green
Here's a nursery rhyme from the time of Queen Elizabeth…
The Rose is Red, The Grass is Green
Nursery Rhyme
The rose is red, the grass is green,
Serve Queen Bess, our noble queen.
Kitty, the spinner,
Will sit down to dinner,
And eat the leg of a frog.
All the good people
Will look over the steeple
And see the cat play with the dog.
Comments
Halliwell (a 19th century collector of nursery rhymes) wrote, "The tune to the following may be found in the 'English Dancing Master,' 1631, p. 37."
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme can be found in The Nursery Rhymes of England edited by James Orchard Halliwell (1843) and A History of Nursery Rhymes (1899) by Percy B. Green.
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