Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
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This Nursery Rhyme is a Hand-Clapping Gama.
Here’s how you play:
1. Slap thighs, clap hands, clap partner’s hands.
2. Repeat line 1
3. Slap thighs, clap hands, slap partner’s right with your right hand, clap hands.
4. Slap partner’s left hand with your left hand, clap your hands, clap your partner’s hands.
5. Slap thighs, clap hands, clap partner’s hands.
6. Repeat line 5
7. Slap thighs, clap hands, slap partner’s right with your right hand, clap hands.
8. Slap partner’s left hand with your left hand, clap your hands, clap your partner’s hands.
The origins of this rhyme are unknown. The name refers to a type of porridge made from peas, pease pudding, also known as pease pottage in Middle English. (”Pease” was treated as a mass noun, similar to “oatmeal” and from that we get the singular pea and plural peas). One theory is that the rhyme is a doggerel by partisans of Princess Mary (Queen Mary I of England), celebrating the downfall, and disparaging the pretentions of Lady Jane Grey, the “Nine Days Queen”, indicating that she was less than royal-pease pottage being a staple of lower class commoners.
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A variant:
Pease-porridge hot,
Pease-porridge cold.
Pease-porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
Spell me that in four letters:
I will: T H A T.