The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

Obli, obli O, my first go;
And when the nut is struck,
Obli, obli onker, my nut will conquer.

—Notes and Queries, 5th series, x. 378.

III.

Cobblety cuts,
Put down your nuts.

—Darlington’s Folk-speech of South Cheshire.

IV.

Obbly, obbly onkers, my first conquers;
Obbly, obbly O, my first go.

—Lawson’s Upton-on-Severn Words and Phrases.

V.

Hobley, hobley, honcor, my first conkor;
Hobbley, hobbley ho, my first go;
Hobley, hobley ack, my first crack.