"See Saw Margery Daw" is an English language nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game.
The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose's Melody, published in London in around 1765.
The words of "See Saw Margery Daw" reflect children playing on a see-saw and singing this rhyme to accompany their game.
In his 1640 play The Antipodes, Richard Brome indicated the connection between sawyers and the phrase "see saw sacke a downe".
[1] The game of see-saw in which two children classically sit opposite each other holding hands and moving backwards and forwards first appears in print from about 1700.