✦ The Rhyme ✦
Molly, My Sister
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Molly, my sister, and I fell out, And what do you think it was all about? She loved coffee and I loved tea, And that was the reason we couldn’t agree.
✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
Molly, my sister, and I fell out, and what do you think it was all about? She loved coffee and I loved tea, and that was the reason we couldn’t agree.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Molly, my sister, and I fell out, And what do you think it was all about? She loved coffee and I loved tea, And that was the reason we couldn’t agree.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“Molly, My Sister” is an old rhyme about a very small quarrel. To “fall out” means to have an argument.
The joke is in how little the argument is about: just coffee and tea. It is a gentle reminder, especially for brothers and sisters, that the things we argue over are often not very big at all.
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