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"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day he or she was born and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. Of the seven days, all children those days represent have positive futures except for one – Wednesday. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526. ==Lyrics== Common modern versions include: :Monday's child is fair of face, :Tuesday's child is full of grace, :Wednesday's child is full of woe, :Thursday's child has far to go, :Friday's child is loving and giving, :Saturday's child works hard for a living, :But the child who is born on the Sabbath day :Is fair and wise and good in every way.〔Iona Opie and Peter Opie, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), pp. 309–10.〕 Often some of the lines are switched as in: :Monday's child is fair of face, :Tuesday's child is full of grace, :Wednesday's child is full of woe, :Thursday's child has far to go, :Friday's child works hard for a living, :Saturday's child is loving and giving, :But the child who is born on the Sabbath day :Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monday's Child」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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