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Please use the #coronarhyme if you join in or retweet. In 100 years time children in playgrounds could be singing rhymes, bouncing balls against a wall, skipping or dancing to something you made up in 2020 with no idea of the context. 1/x

#coronarhyme Folklorists disagree on the origins of Ring a Ring o’Roses but some think it’s about the Great Plague. Nursery and playground rhymes evolve over many years. Many are obscure . 2/x
#coronarhyme As a family in lockdown, or in school next week why don’t you create your own with your children and post it here on Twitter? Build on something familiar or be totally original Write it in your 1st language, a regional dialect, a language you are learning or teaching
#coronarhyme Write it as a rap or show off your knowledge of science . Make it funny, sad, angry, fearful. No rules but keep it pre- watershed and observe the Nolan Principles! Tweet your efforts , clips, photos , videos of the dance you create here using the # . 4/x
#coronarhyme Here’s Rhyme Zero which hopefully will get buried by much better efforts on this thread
Cough into your elbow
Stay apart two metres or so
Loo tissue Loo tissue
All locked down
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Cough into your elbow
Stay apart two metres or so
Loo tissue Loo tissue
All locked down
5/x
Use the #coronarhyme when tweeting your rhymes, raps, songs and dances . Pick up someone else’s, tweak it and tweet it . Use them to mention people you love, miss or want to thank. I’ll try to illustrate some as we go along but will welcome company from artists of any age 6/x