Though born on a Monday, I have always aspired to be a Saturday’s child iaw with the old nursery rhyme upon which all this was based. Not only did I not care for my “Monday’s child is fair of face” depiction, but I never particularly liked any of the descriptions for any of the other days of the week save for Saturday. (If you’re not sure what day of the week you were born (click here, enter your info and scroll down to find out.)
Here then is the old nursery rhyme that inspired this:
Not particularly enamored with any of that 1800’s crap, here then is my very lame attempt to update and put a little more positive spin on these days-of-the-week-traits. (Note how I have made Monday more to my liking.)
Monday’s child is born to rock,
Tuesday’s child has quite a lot.
Wednesday’s child is full of energy to spare,
Thursday’s child hasn’t a care.
Fridays child is quick with a joke
Saturday’s child is full of hope
The child who is born on a Sunday
Will always try to do it the easy way.
Ok, granted it needs some work; but at least I got rid of all that Old English nonsense about being bonny, blithe and gay.
Back to Saturday’s child, here are the Monkees talking about it:
For the record – Buzzy was a Saturday’s Child.