Depressing Nursery Rhymes...
has anybody ever noticed how depressing these are...?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King's Horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Ok that's cool. Humpty fell of a wall and died...
Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
"Ashes, Ashes"
We all fall down!
The great plague caused red rosy colored rash shaped like rings, it smell bad so people carried herbs or "posies" around, and Ahses is referring to the bodies that got creamated after their death
Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row
This rhyme is a reference to Bloody Mary. The garden refers to growing cemeteries, as she filled them with Protestants. Silver bells and cockle shells were instruments of torture and the maiden was a device used to behead people.
It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed and he bumped his head
And couldn't get up in the morning
The man fell asleep and hit his head and died...
Rock-a-bye, baby,
In the tree top.
When the wind blows,
The cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks,
The cradle will fall,
And down will come baby,
Cradle and all
The baby in a cradle in a tree fell...and most likely died
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down,
And broke his crown;
And Jill came tumbling after.
They both went up a hill, they both fell down a hill
London Bridge bridge is falling down, down
Falling down down, falling down, down
London Bridge bridge is falling down, down
My fair lady.
Take a key key and lock padlock her up,
Lock padlock her up, lock padlock her up,
Take a key key and lock padlock her up,
My fair lady.
This nursery rhyme refers to the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. Boleyn was accused of adultery and incest and was ultimately executed for treason
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!...*like 50 more versus and then...*
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!
So yeah there was this lady who had a really small problem but made it worse and worse until she died...lovely
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
She gave them some broth,Without any bread,
Whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed
A poor mother has quite a lot of children and doesn't have enough food for all of them so she beats them then sends them to bed
Goosey goosey gander where shall I wander,
Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady’s chamber
There I met an old man who wouldn’t say his prayers,
I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs
So they'll just throw an old man down the stairs by his left leg
My children will never be allowed to ever sing nursery rhymes...ever
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