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Lucy Locket is an English nursery rhyme.

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.

The tune for Lucy Locket was later used as the basis for Yankee Doodle.

Explanation


Lucy Locket was a barmaid at the Cock, in Fleet Street, London, sometime in the 1700s. Lucy discarded one of her lovers (her 'pocket') when she had run through all his money. Kitty Fisher, a noted courtesan, took up with him, even though he had no money.

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Nursery rhymes

 

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