Daffy Down Dilly
Has come up to town
In a yellow petticoat
And a green gown.
Remember that one? When my children were little, I read nursery rhyme books nearly every day. This rhyme and many others gradually worked their way into my long-term memory banks.
I remember being in the tiny kitchen in one of our apartments in Germany. I was washing dishes, but Keely wanted me to read to her. She sat down on the floor with her nursery rhyme books, and I recited the rhymes to her from memory as she turned the pages.
The kids had a big library of storybooks, but the nursery rhyme books were always some of my favorites.
