The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 352
^\^ALLFLOWERS II. Wallflowers, wallflowers, Growing up so high, All you young ladies Are meant to die. Excepting little , She is the best of all. She can skip, and she can dance, She can turn the candlestick. O my, fie for shame. Turn your back to the wall again. — From London maidsen'ant (Miss E.… … We shall all die. Excepting , She's the youngest daughter, She can hop, She can skip, She can turn the candlestick. Fee, fie, shame, shame. Turn your backs together again : — , your sweetheart is dead. He's sent you a letter to turn back your head. —Wakefield, Yorks (Miss Fowler
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