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This Little Piggy makes a reference to a young baseballer, a peewee. Here why the 'little pig goes wee wee wee all the way home', it used to be 'peewee all the way home.'
Hickory Dickory Dock comes from the old numbers for nine, ten and eleven.
The dish ran away with the spoon comes from the old word for chatting up-'spooning '. The females who are the most attractive run away with those who are best at chatting up.
Jack be nimble comes from the ancient art of candlestick jumping, considered a way to tell fortunes.
Polly put the kettle on is instructive rhyme telling people that when you put a kettle on you should take it off again and not leave it for someone else. It was part of 1700s Government campaign.
The silver bells mentioned in Mary Mary Quite Contrary is a reference to a long forgotten plant type. There were bought in by the Romans but were extinct by Edwardian times.
My son John, who went to bed with his trousers on, in fact referred to a noted Puritan who made a campaign against sleeping in pyjamas as they were considered illicit.
The Lion and the Unicorn referred not to England and Scotland but to Scotland's fights against Judah during the crusades-Judah is also represented by a lion.
I think you've probably guessed by now that not all these stories are true-in fact only one of them is. The answer is the fourth one mentioned. For those who thought Hickory Dickory Dock was true – in fact Hickory Dickory Dock representations eight, nine and ten.
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