"In the nursery rhyme, ""There was a Jolly Miller"", where did the jolly miller live?"
Miller of Dee Miller of Dee There Was a Jolly Miller Once is a traditional folk song (Roud #503) from the Chester area in northwest England. It is often titled "The Miller of the Dee" or "The Jolly Miller". The song was originally part of Isaac Bickerstaffe's play, "Love in a Village" (1762). Subsequently, other versions of Bickerstaffe's original song were made by various other poets. The city of Chester stands on the River Dee and a weir was built across the river here in the Middle Ages to maintain high water levels for several water mills which stood on its banks. The
Three Jolly Rogues "In Good Old Colony Days" or "In Good Old Colony Times." Three Jolly Rogues Three Jolly Rogues is an English folk song. A miller, a weaver and a tailor lived in King Arthur's time (or in "Good Old Colonial times"). They were thrown out because they could not sing. All three were thieves. They are suitably punished. The earliest complete text is a broadside in the Bodleian Library, dated 1804, "The Miller Weaver and Little Tailor". It is also known as "In Good King Arthur's Days". The song is quoted by Thomas Hardy in "Under the Greenwood Tree". It is