"O is for Oranges and Lemons" for The ABC Affair Challenge

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Is for

   Oranges and Lemons...

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[jantojones.livejournal.com]

You've taken me right back to my primary school days with this story. We played a game in which two of us would form an arch with our arms, and everyone else would pass through the arch. We recited the rhyme as people went through and, when we got to "chop off your head" the ones who were the arch would bring their arms down and trap whoever was going through.

Our version of the rhyme had one difference to the version you have used. Where yours' says "You owe me ten shillings, Say the bells at St. Helen's", we sang "You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's".

Beside the memories you've invoked, I love this story, and the identity of the bad guy. He couldn't have known that Illya was au fait with London.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I was hoping this one would stir some memories for you. I've been wanting to do a story involving the rhyme and it worked out perfectly for this challenge.

I read a few different versions of the rhyme, settling on this one as it stated it was a very old one.


glad you enjpyed the story!

As kids we used to do the same arch thing but to London Bridge is falling down, and when it got to the repeat of the last line 'take the keys and lock her up' who ever was stuck in the arch...well you get it.