Here's a children's rhyme that mentions a real person from a looong time ago:


Nebuchadnezzar the King of the Jews
Sold his wife for a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to pinch
Nebuchadnezzar began to flinch
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadnezzar began to swear
When the shoes began to leak
Nebuchadnezzar began to squeak

When the shoes began to crack
Nebuchadnezzar said "Take them back!"
The moral of this story's true
If your wife you want to lose
Don't sell her for a pair of shoes!

http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=3&t=1013
Seedy Songs and Rotten Rhymes - the poetry of the playground.

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Nebuchadnezzar II (c 630-562 BC) was the Babylonian ruler mentioned in the biblical Book of Daniel, who conquered Aram and Judah . There were other Babylonian rulers with that name. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar