The second stanza of the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias" ("From the Mars Hotel", 1974, lyrics by Robert Hunter, music by Jerry Garcia) describes a woman with "rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes." This echoes the nursery rhyme "Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross", whose "fine Lady" has "rings on her fingers and bells on her toes." But yesterday, I remembered these lines: "She's got rings on her fingers / And bells on her toes / Say has anybody seen my sweet Gypsy Rose." That top-ten song was released in July 1973 by Tony Orlando and Dawn, several months before Hunter wrote the lyrics to "Scarlet Begonias". (Andrew Shields, #111words, 11 March 2026)