- When shall I marry?
- This year, next year, sometime, never.
- What will my husband be?
- Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich-man, poor-man, beggar-man, thief.
- What will I be?
- Lady, baby, gypsy, queen.
- What shall I wear?
- Silk, satin, cotton, rags, velvet or lace)
- How shall I get it?
- Given, borrowed, bought, stolen.
- How shall I get to church?
- Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart.
- Where shall I live?
- Big house, little house, pig-sty, barn.
A. A. Milne’s (yes, the English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh) Now We are Six (1927) had the following version of “Cherry stones”:
- Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief,
- Or what about a cowboy, policeman, jailer, engine driver, or a pirate chief?
- Or what about a ploughman or a keeper at the zoo,
- Or what about a circus man who lets the people through?
- Or the man who takes the pennies on the roundabouts and swings,
- Or the man who plays the organ or the other man who sings?
- Or What about the rabbit man with rabbits in his pockets
- And what about a rocket man who’s always making rockets?
- Oh it’s such a lot of things there are and such a lot to be
- That there’s always lots of cherries on my little cherry tree.