Applies to the third rhyme only (see 'The queen of hearts').
Composition date: ca. Jan 1927
Genre: Solo vocal
Text: From four nursery rhymes
Numbers
Eye winker, Tom Tinker, nose dropper, mouth eater, chin chopper
There was a crooked man
The queen of hearts
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notes:
Britten has paired this rhyme with 'Sing a song of 6d' (1923, score missing) in his handwritten catalogue of works (compiled ca. Jan 1928) and given them both the number J. opC 13c.
