Version 1
Lyrics
“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?”
“With cockle shells and silver bells and pretty maids all in a row.”
Version 2
Version 3
See also
- Country: Russia
- Type: nursery rhyme
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: ascending minor pentascale (version 1)
- Meter: 4
- Scales: pentachord (version 1) / major (versions 2 & 3)
- Tones: l,t,drm
- Source: The Child’s Own Music Book, Wier, 1918 / source: Every Child’s Folk Songs and Games, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1917
- Song (3 versions) with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the songs
