Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century, while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages. However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill. The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several
Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes focus on the New York punk of the 70's and early 80's. At a show in Poughkeepsie, New York on July 27, 2010, Ness revealed that the new Social Distortion album would be called "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" and also promised a November release date. A September 2010 issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine claimed the album would be released on November 23, 2010. However, Ness later said that its release date had been pushed back to January 2011. In October 2010, Social Distortion announced that "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes" would be released on January 18, 2011. They also