_Source_.--From the first edition of Henderson's _Folk-Lore of
Northern Counties_, p. 314, to which it was communicated by the Rev. S.
Baring-Gould.
_Parallels_.--This is better known under the title, “Orange and Lemon,”
and with the refrain:
“My mother killed me,
My father picked my bones,
My little sister buried me,
Under the marble stones.”
I heard this in Australia. Mr. Jones Gives part of it in _Folk Tales
of the Magyars_, 418-20, and another version occurs in 4 _Notes and
Queries_, vi. 496. Mr. I. Gollancz informs me he remembers a version
entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given.
Abroad it is Grimm's “Juniper Tree” (No. 47), where see further
parallels. The German rhyme is sung by Margaret in the mad scene of
Goethe's “Faust.”