#i've also always loved music so nursery rhymes were a blending of my two original special interests lol

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The nursery rhyme 'See saw Margery Daw' dates back to at least 1765 when it was published in Mother Goose's Melody.

Its origin is debated. It might have come from a work song sung by sawyers to help them keep rhythm when using a two-person saw. Another possibility is that it refers to child labor in the workhouses of the time.

'Daw' is English slang for a lazy person, but there is no evidence that the rhyme is based on a real individual.

Anyway this version is sufficiently haunting and captures the rhyme's spirit in my opinion, as it always struck me as quite hopeless and sad.