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Thread #111431   Message #2350861
Posted By: trevek
28-May-08 - 07:07 AM
Thread Name: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
"Goosey-goosey gander" has the old man being thrown down the stairs and breaking his back.

"Weile weile waile" has the old woman killing the baby.

"There was a man who had a horse-elum" has the horse dying.

"Found a peanut" (to tune of Clementine) involves a fatal dose of food poisoning.

"Clementine" drowning.

"sam, sam the butcher's man
washed his face in a frying pan,
combed his hair with a wagon whell
and died of toothache in his heel"