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Where did the term rings on your fingers bells on your toes originate?
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∙ 15y ago
The immediate answer is from a nursery rhyme:
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady ride on a white horse,
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
However, nursery rhymes often have identifiable sources; suggestions for this one may be found at http://www.rhymes.org.uk/ride_a_cock_horse.htm. There is also a comic music hall song which, if I remember aright, tells of an Irishman who somehow becomes a Rajah in India, and goes home to Ireland to find a bride, promising her:
You shall have rings on your fingers, bells on your toes,
Elephants to ride on, my sweet Killarney rose, oh .....
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