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“Scarlet Begonias”, “Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross”, and “My Sweet Gypsy Rose”: The Grateful Dead, a nursery rhyme, and Tony Orlando & Dawn
The second stanza of the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias" ("From the Mars Hotel", 1974, lyrics by Robert Hunter, music by Jerry Garcia) describes a woman with "rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes." This echoes the nursery rhyme "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", whose "fine