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The words of the
Nursery Rhyme, 'Ky-me
Nay-mo' reflect a
bygone Industrial
age. Our thanks go
to Ricky Gunn for
this highly unusual,
purely phonetic
rhyme. Ricky
believes that it
echoes the sound of
some sort of sewing
or weaving machinery
which the girls of
the village may have
worked with over the
decades/centuries.
The Nursery Rhyme
was remembered by
Ricky's grandmother
Annie Summers (née
Robinson 1887-1974)
who lived in
Tanworth-in-Arden,
Warwickshire, some
15 miles south of
Birmingham. Just as
with most Nursery
Rhymes Annie taught
the rhyme to her
daughter Frances
Gunn (née Summers,
born 1920) who
passed it on to her
son Ricky! |
