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Thread #45288 Message #2057899
Posted By: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
21-May-07 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Subject: RE: Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Hickory-dickory-dock!
Two mice ran up the clock.
The clock struck one;
...The other one got away clean.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her,
And said, "Excuse me, miss, is this seat taken?"
Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig and ...
got twenty years to life.
Starkle, starkle, little twink!
Who the hell you are, I think?
Sing a song of six-pence,
A pocket full of rye--
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing,
And the king said:
[A] "Not blackbird pie again!"
[B] "Can't you keep that pie QUIET??"
There is also a Confederate version of the Union war song, "Battle Cry of Freedom" which incorporates a nursery rhyme--wonderfully ironic though not exactly falling-down-laughing humerous:
Mary had a little lamb, and its fleece was white as snow,
Shouting 'The Battle-Cry of Freedom.'
Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go;
Shouting 'The Battle-Cry of Freedom.'
Dixie forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the eagle and up with the cross!
Let us rally round the flag, boys,
Rally once again,
Shout! Shout! the Battle Cry of Freedom
Chicken Charlie