As I Was Going By Charing Cross
'As I Was Going By Charing Cross' (sometimes referred to as 'As I was going to Charing Cross'), is an English language nursery rhyme. The rhyme was first recorded in the 1840s, but it may have older origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of king Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may refer to his death or be a puritan satire on royalist reactions to his execution. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20564.
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Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, charing and/or cross:
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)
“Cry;—and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
“The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)