Popular poem - forgettable words - Fridays child The words and lyrics of the poem "Fridays child "were used to introduce and teach children the order and the names of the days of week. The wording of Fridays child guaranteed to ensure that a child would take an interest in which day that they were born on! Sundays child appears in the format of a child born on the 'Sabbath day'. The actual title of the poem is Mondays child but this is often not remembered as the key to the poem is that each day is blessed with a different attribute which why the rhyme is often referred to as the Fridays child poem "Fridays child is loving and giving..."
Mondays child is fair of face, Tuesdays child is full of grace, Wednesdays child is full of woe, Thursdays child has far to go, Fridays child is loving and giving, Saturdays child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
