In this short, a trio of jazz-singing jesters sing three Mother Goosenursery rhymes, while an off screen narrator explains their origins in three animated vignettes. The rhymes include:
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary": The life of Mary Stuart. The segment claims that the "silver bells" are said to "refer to the elaborate decoration on her dresses", the "cockle shells" to her love of exotic food such as cockles, with the "pretty maids all in a row" referring to her ladies-in-waiting.
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