Help req: children's rhyme

15 Oct 98 - 05:02 AM (#41767)
Subject: Help req: children's rhyme
From: AndreasW

Can anybody help me with this children's rhyme?
I know it is neither folk nor music, but perhaps you'll forgive and help me all the same... ;-)

Eve arriver, chimney sweeper
Had a wife and couldn't keep her
Billybole and biscuit baker
Ballybop ...

The bold parts are given as I heard them,
but where I do not know whether I heard correctly.
Also the end is missing, I can't remember it.

Please help,
Thanks in Advance,
cu, Andreas

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15 Oct 98 - 07:58 AM (#41783)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Frank in the swamps

Childrens rhymes always make a big splash in the Mudcat Forum, if you try some searches in your filter you'll probably come up with a number of them. Or just sit tight, here we probably go again..........

fuzzy wuzzy wuz a bear,

fuzzy wuzzy had no hair,

fuzzy wuzzy wuzn't fuzzy wuz he.

Frank i.t.s.

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15 Oct 98 - 08:38 AM (#41785)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: alison

Hi,

I remember somthing along the lines of

Peter, ?Peter, pumpkin eater,

Had a wife but couldn't keep her.....

Try this site, it has heaps of great kids stuff.

http://www.kididdles.com/

Slainte

alison

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15 Oct 98 - 12:51 PM (#41815)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Joe Offer

The one I know is:

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had another, and didn't love her
Peter learned to read and spell
And then he loved her very well.

I looked in the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes and didn't find any others like this. Too bad you can't search the book like you can the Digital Tradition.
-Joe Offer-

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15 Oct 98 - 05:44 PM (#41853)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Frank in the swamps

Is this modern p.c. or just my personal corruption coming through, I thought it was...

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had a wife and couldn't BEAT her...

Frank i.t.s.

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15 Oct 98 - 07:42 PM (#41869)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Barbara

Andreas, I remember something like that, but mostly nonsense words. "Eve-er I-ver O-ver Rue, something something I pick you". It was one of those choosing rhymes. Like "Ein, Zwei, Drei, horsengoggles."
And Frank, there is a never-ending round to that rhyme, goes,
Fuzzy-wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy-wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
was a bear,

Blessings,
BArbara

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15 Oct 98 - 08:05 PM (#41873)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Joe Offer

I found this in the Jumprope Hypertext Archive. The archive is now defunct, but I was able to find and save a text version. Wish I could find an HTML version.

Eeper weeper,
Chimney sweeper
Had a wife,
But couldn't keep her.

Had another,
Didn't love her.
Up the chimney,
He did shove her.

-Joe Offer-

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17 Oct 98 - 06:04 PM (#42106)
Subject: RE: Help req: children's rhyme
From: Tim Jaques [e-mail]

There is, of course, Mother Goose. Make sure you buy the real Mother Goose, and not the politically correct version that is being peddled to unsuspecting parents these days. A kind of vegan goose, if you will, and about as satisfying.

They have also done the same with Aesop -- the little boy doesn't get eaten by the wolf in the new version, which ruins the majesty of the moral!

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