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Thread #111431   Message #2350101
Posted By: Mrrzy
27-May-08 - 10:10 AM
Thread Name: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
I knew 2 versions of Old Man - went to bed with a hole in his head and he couldn't get up in the morning is one, and the other is Bumped his head when he went to bed. I never got the impression he was dead, though, even with the hole in his head.

My version of Hudge Fudge went Hudge, Fudge, call the judge, mama got a newborn baby / Not a boy, not a girl, just an ordinary baby / Wrap it up in tissue paper send it down the elevator / ...and then there were stops for all the floors. No dead baby.

Yes, those Germans sure knew how to scare kids into being good, eh!