August 28, 2005

My Mom and I were wondering if Jack and Jill were twins. My Mom thinks they were. I’m not even sure they were related.

Posted by Sarah @ 9:26 am • Uncategorized

2 Responses to “Does anybody know?”

August 28th, 2005 at 10:49 am, Matthew Says:

Actually, they were husband and wife!

jack and jill history
August 28th, 2005 at 2:39 pm, Becky Says:

It seems nobody really knows.

Check out these links (and there are dozens more where these came from):

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=rhymes17&date=20040317

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_%28song%29

This one includes more text to the rhyme:

http://nurseryrhymes.allinfoabout.com/jack_and_jill.html

And, for some odd reason, they all go back to Norway (what’s up with that?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidfinn

P.S. I wish I knew how to make better links. I’m still learning this stuff.