Lucy Locket

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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, a song which originated in Norwalk, Connecticut.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External references

• All Info About Nursery Rhymes entry for Lucy Locket.
• Sense And Sensuality. Chapter 9 of Sex In History by Gordon Rattray Taylor.