簡單西蒙 (童謠)

簡單西蒙
"Simple Simon"
簡單西蒙; "Simple Simon"
	威廉·華萊士·鄧斯洛的歌曲插圖，1901年版《鵝媽媽》
童謠
語言	英語
創作	英格蘭
出版	1764年

《簡單西蒙》（"Simple Simon"）是一首流行的英語搖籃曲。

歌詞

這首歌的歌詞是^[1]

Simple Simon met a pieman,

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Let me taste your ware.

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

Show me first your penny;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Indeed I have not any.

Simple Simon went a-fishing,

For to catch a whale;

All the water he had got,

Was in his mother's pail.

Simple Simon went to look

If plums grew on a thistle;

He pricked his fingers very much,

Which made poor Simon whistle.

起源

現在這個版本的簡單西蒙出自1764年首版的一本暢銷故事書。^[1] 簡單西蒙這個角色曾出現在伊莉莎白時代的暢銷書及一首1685年的民謠《簡單西蒙的不幸與其妻馬潔麗的殘忍》（Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty）中。^[1] 另外也可能與18世紀的一名乞丐西蒙·埃迪有關。^[2]

參考文獻

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.
^ Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford, Old and New London: Westminster and the western suburbs Volume 3 of Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Old and New London, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin: 207, 1880

外部連結

A page containing the full text of the rhyme （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

[Opie1997-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 333-4.

[2] Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford, Old and New London: Westminster and the western suburbs Volume 3 of Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, Old and New London, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin: 207, 1880

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