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Thread #111431   Message #2354472
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
01-Jun-08 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
Subject: RE: Mention of Death in Children's Rhymes
"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"

Doesn't that appear in Old Dan Tucker as well?

Anyway, not sure it counts, but there is an Ukrainian lullabye about a big, furry cat who comes and eats the kid....