One of the simplest nursery rhymes out there is “Simple Simon”. Despite its simplicity, it’s one of the most popular nursery rhymes and has been adapted in numerous different ways. Here are some of the more interesting versions of this rhyme.
simple Simon rhyme
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Modern version
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.
Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.
Simple Simon went a-fishing,
For to catch a whale;
All the water he had got,
Was in his mother’s pail.
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle
simple Simon nursery rhyme meaning
A simple Simon is a children’s game. The rhyme is used to identify an object and to learn the different colors. It was invented in the 1940s by two writers at the New York ad agency JWT, who discovered – as did Walt Disney – that children were very susceptible to subliminal recruitment via advertising.