Nighttime. You don't have many words for
today. So, let me draw them out for you. - Amorella
2144 hours. This makes me
search for the words, but really, I cannot find any suitable beyond: anxious;
concern and sad.
That's your heart, boy. It's easy to read
your mind from your heart. - Amorella
2150
hours. Where's my soul? What words does she have, if any?
Tinker
tailor. - Amorella
2152 hours. I don't get it .
. . though Popo Orndorff used to say a such a phrase and there is a book title
that has the words. This is all that comes to mind. I'll check. Here is what I
found through Wikipedia:
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The names are derived from the English children's rhyme
"Tinker, Tailor":
Tinker, tailor,
soldier, sailor,
rich man, poor man,
beggarman, thief.
soldier, sailor,
rich man, poor man,
beggarman, thief.
***
"Tinker Tailor" is
a counting game, nursery rhyme and fortune telling song traditionally played in
England, that can be used
to count cherry stones,
buttons, daisy petals and other items. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 802. Its American version is
commonly used by children for "counting out," e.g. for choosing who
shall be "It" in a game of tag.
***
Origins
A
similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's, The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. 1475), in which pawns are named:
"Labourer, Smith, Clerk, Merchant, Physician, Taverner, Guard and Ribald."
The
first record of the opening four professions being grouped together is in
William Congreve's Love
for Love (1695), which has
the lines:
A Soldier and a
Sailor, a Tinker and a Taylor,
Had once a
doubtful strife, sir.
When
James Orchard Halliwell collected
the rhyme in the 1840s, it was for counting buttons with the lines: "My
belief - a captain, a colonel, a cow-boy, a thief." The version printed by
William Wells Newell in Games
and Songs of American Children in
1883 was: "Rich man, Poor man, beggar-man, thief, Doctor, lawyer (or
merchant), Indian chief", and it may be from American tradition that the
modern lyrics solidified.
***
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is
a 1974 spy novel by
British author John le Carre. It follows the endeavors of taciturn, ageing
spymaster George Smiley to
uncover a Soviet mole in
the British Secret Intelligence Service. Since the time of its publication, the
novel has received critical acclaim for its complex social commentary and lack
of sensationalism, and remains a staple of the spy fiction genre.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
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2217 hours.
None of the above rings a bell as to why I or my soul would recover such words
in your original context. I don't think of anxious, concern or sad and tinker,
tailor.
You did not write in the words in relationship
to the future. - Amorella
2224 hours. Here it is.
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The "tinker, tailor" rhyme is one part of a
longer counting or divination game, often played by young girls to foretell
their futures; it runs as follows:
When shall I marry?
This year, next
year, sometime, never.
What will my
husband be?
Tinker, tailor,
soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.
What will I be?
Lady, baby,
gypsy, queen.
What shall I
wear?
Silk, satin,
cotton, rags (or silk, satin, velvet, lace)
How shall I get
it?
Given, borrowed,
bought, stolen.
How shall I get
to church?
Coach, carriage,
wheelbarrow, cart.
Where shall I
live?
Big house,
little house, pig-sty, barn.
During the divination, the girl will ask a
question and then count out a series of actions or objects by reciting the
rhyme. The rhyme is repeated until the last of the series of objects or actions
is reached. The last recited term or word is that which will come true. Buttons
on a dress, petals on a flower, bounces of a ball, number of jumps over a rope,
etc., may be counted.
There are innumerable variations of the rhyme:
A
Daisy, daisy,
who shall it be?
Who shall it be
who will marry me?
Rich man, poor
man, beggarman, thief,
Doctor, lawyer,
merchant, chief,
Tinker, tailor,
soldier, sailor.
B
Grandmother,
Grandmother,
What shall I
wear?
Silk, satin,
calico, cotton.
C
Where shall we
live?
Big house,
little house, pigsty, barn.
D
How many
children shall we have?
One, two, three,
four, five, six, etc.
A 2013 variation:
Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Sailor,
Rich Man, Poor
Man, Beggar Man, Thief,
Old Man, Young
Man, Lawyer, Jailer,
Captain, Pirate,
Fisherman, Chief,
Plowman, Cooper,
Farmer, Teacher,
Banker, Gunner,
Gardener, Cook,
Burglar, Boxer,
Baker, Preacher,
Writer,
Politician, or Crook
Selected and edited from
Wikipedia - tinker, tailor
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2228 hours.
This still gives me no clue other than my concern for the future. That's it. My
soul is concerned for the future.
So it appears. - Amorella
2230 hours. This is rather
spooky when I think on it.
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