Watch "Driving in My Car" bit.ly/19duk0p We're on Amazon! amzn.to/18JmBFf Free rhymes galore! www.mothergooseclub.com Subscribe! www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=sockeyemedia Join us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mothergooseclub Watch more videos on our channel: www.youtube.com/user/SockeyeMedia Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/#!/mothergooseclub A big thanks to all of our fans out there big and small! Buy our nursery rhyme songs: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YCO5OM/ www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YCOWJK/ Historical Background: "Seesaw Marjorie Daw" is a singing rhyme associated with children playing on a seesaw. The character "Marjorie Daw" was presumably created simply to rhyme with the words "see saw." It is also suggested that the last three lines of the rhyme are an allusion to child labor in work houses. Work houses had homeless and poor children work for extremely low wages ("a penny a day") because "[they] can't work any faster." Download a printable coloring page for Seesaw Margery Daw (just click print): mothergooseclub.com/rhymes.php?cat=action&id=186 Listen to a narration of Seesaw Margery Daw: mothergooseclub.com/rhymes.php?cat=action&id=186 "Seesaw Margery Daw" lyrics: Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master; He shall earn but a penny a day Because he can't work any faster. Additional Versions: Version 1 Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master; He shall earn but a penny a day Because he can't work any faster. Source: The Most Popular Mother Goose Songs (1910) Version 2 Seesaw Margery Daw Jacky shall have a new master; Jacky shall earn but a penny a day Because he can't work any faster. Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997) Version 3 See, Say, a penny-aday, Tommy must have a new master— Why must he have but a penny a-day? Because he can work no faster Source: Blackwood's (1824)

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