FARMER IN THE DELL
The players stand in a circle. One of their number is in the center.
He is the farmer in the dell. At the singing of the second verse, where
the farmer takes a wife, the center player beckons to another, who
goes in and stands by her. The circle keeps moving while each verse
is sung, and each time the player last called in beckons to another;
that is, the wife beckons one into the circle as the child, the child
beckons one for the nurse, etc., until six are standing in the circle.
When the lines, "The rat takes the cheese," are sung, the players
inside the circle and those forming it jump up and down and clap their
hands in a grand confusion, and the game breaks up.
The farmer in the dell,
The farmer in the dell,
Heigh-o! the cherry-oh!
The farmer in the dell.
The farmer takes a wife,
The farmer takes a wife,
Heigh-o! the cherry-oh!
The farmer takes a wife.
The wife takes a child,
The wife takes a child,
Heigh-o! the cherry-oh!
The wife takes a child.
The child takes a nurse, etc.
The nurse takes a cat, etc.
The cat takes a rat, etc.
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