Monday's Child
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Monday's Child is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day they were born. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. Below is just one common form.
- Monday's child is fair of face.
- Tuesday's child is full of grace.
- Wednesday's child is full of woe.
- Thursday's child has far to go.
- Friday's child is loving and giving.
- Saturday's child works hard for a living,
- But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
- Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
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[edit] Original 1887 version
While recent generations have grown up with the version in which, "Wednesday's child is full of woe," an early incarnation of this rhyme appeared in a multi-part fictional story in a chapter appearing in Harper's Weekly on September 17, 1887. In that version "Friday's child is full of woe." In addition to Wednesday's and Friday's children's role reversal, the fates of Thursday's and Saturday's children was also exchanged and Sunday's child is "happy and wise" instead of "blithe and good":
- Monday's child is fair of face.
- Tuesday's child is full of grace.
- Wednesday's child is loving and giving.
- Thursday's child works hard for a living,
- Friday's child is full of woe.
- Saturday's child has far to go.
- But the child that is born on Sabbath-day
- Is bonny and happy and wise and gay.
[edit] Origin
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