where does she wander?

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"Goosey Goosey Gander" is a traditional English nursery rhyme dating to the late 18th century, first recorded in 1784. The rhyme tells the story of searching a house and throwing an old man down the stairs for not saying his prayers, though the meaning is thought by some to reflect religious persecution or have a layer of innuendo.

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Goose-a goose-a gander,

Where shall I wander?

Up stairs and down stairs,

In my lady's chamber;

There you'll find a cup of sack

And a race of ginger

The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus published in London in 1784.

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variouse Interpretations ref to religious upheavals in the time of Oliver Cromwell.

Other interpretations exist. Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey note in Birds Britannica that the greylag goose has for millennia been associated with fertility, that "goose" still has a sexual meaning in British culture, and that the nursery rhyme preserves these sexual overtones ("In my lady's chamber").

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