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Thread #45288 Message #3612520
Posted By: Joe_F
24-Mar-14 - 09:14 PM
Thread Name: Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Subject: RE: Fractured Nursery Rhymes
Heard at St Andrews University, 1959:
Little boy kneels by the sitting-room fire,
Little face flushed with abnormal desire.
Meow! Meow! Oh, what is that?
Christopher Robin is sodding the cat.
Chicken Charlie: The Confederate parody you mention must be the origin of a curious version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" that I have been hearing recently at pub sings, with the rousing chorus:
Hurrah for Mary! Hurrah for the lamb!
Hurrah for the Fenian boys who do not give a damn!
And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
After the usual verses, it goes on:
Mary had a little lamb.
It had a sooty foot,
And everywhere that Mary went,
Its sooty foot it put.
Mary had a little lamb.
Her father shot it dead.
Now Mary takes the lamb to school
Between two hunks of bread.