Thursday's Child

Thursdays Child
"Traditional poem for children - Thursdays child. The lyrics of the Thursdays child poem were used to teach a child to the order and names of the different days of week. The theme of Thursdays child ensured that a child would take a lively interest in which day that they were born on! The alternative name for the poem Thursdays child is Mondays child. The title is often forgotten as is the actual poem , we only seem to have vague recollections of a poem about the attributes to being born on different days of the week. Sunday was always referred to as the 'Sabbath day' in the religion of Christianity. This is the only reference to history for the origin of the Thursdays child poem. "Thursdays child has far to go..."

I am a Thursday's child. If you don't know which day of the week you were born on and would like to know you can go here to find out. I remember this little "Monday's Child" poem or song from when I was a child. Through the years I have seen plaques, cross stitch patterns, baby quilts, etc., displaying different versions of the poem/song. I googled it recently to try and find out the correct version and found this from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

Monday's Child is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day they were born. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. Below is just one common form.

Monday's child is fair of face.
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving.
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

Original 1887 version
While recent generations have grown up with the version in which, "Wednesday's child is full of woe," an early incarnation of this rhyme appeared in a multi-part fictional story in a chapter appearing in Harper's Weekly on September 17, 1887. In that version "Friday's child is full of woe." In addition to Wednesday's and Friday's children's role reversal, the fates of Thursday's and Saturday's children was also exchanged and Sunday's child is "happy and wise" instead of "blithe and good":

Monday's child is fair of face.
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday's child is loving and giving.
Thursday's child works hard for a living,
Friday's child is full of woe.
Saturday's child has far to go.
But the child that is born on Sabbath-day
Is bonny and happy and wise and gay.

The following is onpedia's definition:

A child who is fair of face; - a reference to a nineteenth century poem. See below.

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day,
Is lucky and happy and good and gay.

The version that I remember is:

Monday's child is fair of face;
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is full of woe;
Thursday's child has far to go;
Friday's child is loving and giving;
Saturday's child works hard for a living.
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
is fair and wise, good and gay

All are similar except Sunday (Sabbath Day) and it is different in all of them. Do you know a different version? Thank you for stopping by.

My husband is a Monday's child.

Our daughter, Jacqueline, is a Monday's child.

Our son, Lee, is a Friday's child.