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Old King Cole

Thoughts on the Old King Cole Nursery Rhyme

Holding a baby shower and need something to keep the guests busy during part of the time, well one tradition is to hold various games and contests, with prizes as rewards. One such game might center around a nursery rhyme such as; “Old King Cole was a merry old soul,” for example. Only one would like to known more about the rhyme before creating a game to go with it, if possible. The nursery rhyme comes England and is believed to be, but has been debated about the ture historical identity of King Cole. Also for reference the rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1164.

Working on the baby shower game, the inspiration comes from the fifth line, “Every fiddler had a fiddle fine,” as the word pipe used in the rhyme likely refers to a musical instrument, possible a flute. The other thing to take away from this is that in the rhyme it also make notes that King Cole and his fiddlers three, which could mean that the king and his fiddlers may have played music together. How do the guests fit into this, well they will each be given a musical instrument of some sort to play, with one person playing lead. Now pair off into groups of three, which every group can make the best musical sounds together, sound together wins. One final note the word ceol means music in Gaelic, which was a language of the region and maybe the origin of the rhyme.

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