| 词条 | There Was a Crooked Man |
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| name = There Was a Crooked Man | cover = | alt = | type = Nursery rhyme | written = | published = 1842 | writer = Unknown | composer = | lyricist = }}{{Portal |Children's literature}} "There Was a Crooked Man" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 4826.[1] LyricsOriginal version: There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house. OriginThe rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842:[2]: There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house. It gained popularity in the early twentieth century.[3] One legend suggests[4] that this nursery rhyme originated in the once prosperous wool merchant’s village of Lavenham, about 70 miles northeast of London, having been inspired by its multicolored half-timbered houses leaning at irregular angles as if they are supporting each other. Other sources[5] state that the poem originates from British history, specifically the period of the English Stuart King Charles I of England (1600–1649). The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" in the poem was the border between England and Scotland. "They all lived together in a little crooked house" refers to the fact that the English and Scots had at last come to an agreement, despite continuing great animosity between the two peoples, who nonetheless had to live with each other due to their common border. In popular culture
References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S299349 | title=Roud Folksong Index S299349 There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile | publisher=English Folk Dance and Song Society | work=Vaughan Williams Memorial Library | accessdate=May 20, 2016}} {{Folk-song-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |title=The Nursery Rhymes of England |first=James Orchard |last=Halliwell |publisher=C. Richards |location=London |year=1842 |page=30 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89222/page/n299}} 3. ^I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 340. 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/travels-peabod/2011/sep/12/four-great-little-places-you-probably-never-heard-/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123020/http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/travels-peabod/2011/sep/12/four-great-little-places-you-probably-never-heard-/ |archivedate=6 October 2014 |title=Lavenham, England: Part one of four great little places |newspaper=Washington Times |date=12 September 2011 |first=Bob |last=Taylor |accessdate=5 November 2016}} 5. ^{{cite book |last=Alchin |first=Linda |date=2013 |url=http://www.rhymes.org.uk/there_was_a-crooked_man.htm |chapter=There was a Crooked Man |title=The Secret History of Nursery Rhymes |edition=2nd |location=Surrey, UK |publisher=Neilsen}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.syfy.com/31daysofhalloween/blog/the-crooked-man-5-things-to-know |title=The Crooked Man: 5 Things to Know |publisher=Syfy.com |date=1 October 2016 |accessdate=6 November 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/conjuring-2-spinoff-crooked-man-works-1012702 |title=Conjurer 2 Spinoff 'The Crooked Man' in the Works |publisher=HollywoodReporter.com |date=14 June 2017 |accessdate=25 June 2017}} 5 : Cats in literature|English nursery rhymes|Roud Folk Song Index songs|Songwriter unknown|Year of song unknown |
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