Does anyone know the next lines of this song for children (ladybug ladybug fly away home your house is on fire? my grandchildren would like to know
Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away Home,
Your house is on fire and your children are gone,
All but one
And her name is Ann,
And she hid under the stove.
A shorter, darker version is also very widespread:
Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home,
Your house is on fire
Your children must burn!
Ann hiding can also be Nan, Anne or Little Anne. It can be hidden in a pan, the pan boiled, or even a pudding pan. [2] Some variants are radically different:
All except one, and his name was Aileen
And she hid under a bowl. [3]
The "small" may also not hiding at all, as in the following:
Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home.
Your house is on fire;
Your children all roam.
Except little Nan
Who sits in his stove
Woven laces as fast as she can.
Other variants can be found:
Ladybug, ladybug, / Fly Away Home. / Your house is on fire, / Your children are exploited.
All except one little one / under a stone. / Fly home, Ladybird, / 'before he left. [4]
And from Peterborough:
Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home, / Your horse is walking, your children are gone;
All but one, and that little John, / And he is under the stone Grindle [5].
An old Scottish version is given in the Wikipedia article on ladybugs (Coccinellidae):
Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, go away Heam,
Your house is burned, and your children are Tean,
And if thou means to save your children
Take your wings and fly!
[Edit] Meaning
There were superstitious beliefs that he was unhappy to kill a ladybug, and the verse would soar. [6] Or it may be that you should be singing if a ladybug lands on you: if it can fly again, your wish will come true. [7]
Ladybirds are useful as eaters of aphids, the plants would otherwise damage. They can also be a nuisance, but it would be logical point of view farmer or gardener to try to chase away rather than kill them. This could be the rational basis for teaching children to respect them.
This version Nan bit could be a reference to the habit of setting fire to smoke the bugs out of plants. It caused the beetles fly. Insects younger form of fly, would have to crawl away. Thus, "your children every Roam." Insects form a pupa, in the shell, would not be able to escape the danger and then die of smoke or fire. The idea is that Nan is in her case , pupal and can not fly, until it is released - "weaving laces, undoing his chrysalis case.
Lady Bird, Ladybug, Fly Away Home,
Your house is on fire, your children all gone;
All but one, and his name is Ann,
And she crept under the pudding pan.
Lady-bird! Lady-bird! Fly Away Home;
The mouse went to her nest.
The daisies have shut their sleep eyes red
And bees and birds are at rest.
Lady-bird! Lady-bird! Fly Away Home;
The glowworm is lighting her lamp.
rapidly falling dew, and your fine speckled wings
flag hanging with the big wet.
Lady-bird! Lady-bird! Fly Away Home;
The fairy bells tinkle afar;
Hurry, or they will catch you and you quickly mobilize
With a spider in the car * Oberon.
(* Oberon is the king of the fairies)
Ladybug! Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire
And your children all gone.
All but one
And that little Ann
For she crept under
The frying pan.
And your children are gone.
I do not know any more sorry.
Posted on July 23, 2010.
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