Archived from the original on 15 November 2006. ^ Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson, The Folklore of Discworld (London: Random House, 2010), ISBN 1407034243, p.The Classic Children's Television Quiz Book. Ehrlich, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press, 2007), p. Tatem, eds, A Dictionary of Superstitions (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 'Picture Choice: Gabriele Finaldi on pictorial wisdom in Piero's relaxed Nativity'. ^ Finaldi, Gabriele (1 December 1992).Flights of Fancy: Birds in Myth, Legend, and Superstition. The book additionally contains references to the nursery rhyme. The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. 'One For Sorrow' on Megan Washington's album There There also features the rhyme.Īnthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organizing scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. The American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission featured a song called 'One for Sorrow, Two for Joy' on their 2003 album Befriended. The English band The Unthanks recorded a version of this song on their 2015 album Mount the Air, and the song appeared in the BBC series Detectorists. As a supposed counter-curse to the bad luck brought by witnessing a magpie, the woman would say the expression and spit on the floor. ĭavid Dodds used the rhyme as the chorus for his song 'Magpie' it also included the lyric 'Devil, Devil, I defy thee', having been inspired by an older woman he gave a lift to once in his new car. Tucker's song, 'Ravens in the Library,' from her album Mischief, utilizes the modern version of the rhyme as a chorus, and the rest of the verses relate to the rhyme in various ways. The first track on Seanan McGuire's album Wicked Girls, also titled 'Counting Crows', features a modified version of the rhyme. The name of the rock band Counting Crows derives from the rhyme, which is featured in the song ' A Murder of One' on the band's debut album, August and Everything After. The popularity of this version is thought to have displaced the many regional versions that had previously existed. Ī version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of the children's TV show Magpie, which ran from 1968 to 1980. In eastern India, the erstwhile British colonial bastion, the common myna is the bird of association. On occasion, jackdaws, crows and other Corvidae are associated with the rhyme, particularly in America where magpies are less common.

One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn