Can a nursery rhyme be morbid?

Question: Can a nursery rhyme be morbid!?

Sing a song of sick folks,
The germs are on the fly!.
If you think you're sick now,
You may as well just die!.
The wards are overcrowded,
The beds all full right now!.
No more room for sick folks,
I'd die, but don't know how!.

Patch is off the left eye, I can read and type using only reading glasses!. I feel 15 years younger, and my arms seem to have gotten longer!. Tanks to all who wished me well, and thanks to those who didn't also(If there were any I didn't notice)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Hospitals are no fun, but they saved your sight, gave you 15 more years on Mars, and brought a great deal of relief to all your virtual friends!. Throughout this ordeal, your vision remained steady and now so is your sight!. As for typing, you're forgiven!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Remember Ring around the Posey "celebrating" the black death!? This is on the mild side with the exception the beat is superior!. Congrats on recovery and on this nursery rhyme!. Why is the eye patch in your avatar on the right eye!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well!.!.!. why stop now!?!?!? They have been for hundreds of years Ring around the Rosy for example!.!.!. was about the black plague where you got a red ring around your neck and children carried around Flowers (poesy) in their pocket to smell when they walked past a rotting corpse!.!.!. Or how about rock a bye baby!?!?!? And down will come baby!.!.!. cradle and all!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Aren't they all morbid!. I don't know if Grimm wrote them so morosely because of the name, but I never understood how "and down will come baby cradle and all" would lull a child to sleep!.

Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down (people dying from the Plauge)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sing a song of six pence,
pocket full of rye!.!.!.!.

Sing a song of sick folks,
The gems are on the fly!.
If you think you're sick now,
you may just as well die!.

Yes this adaptation is morbid!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Elaine expressed my feelings, Others beat me to the Grimm's

Some medical doings now work wonders, especially eyes!.
Sight is a blessing at any age, Cheers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Many are sick and demented!. Morbid!? Most definitely!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Absolutely

have you ever listened to rock a bye babyWww@QuestionHome@Com

You're going great guns, Big Guy!. How 'bout writing some music to those nursery rhyme lyrics!? A star is porn !.!.!.!.!?!?!?!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes they can check out rockabye baby in it a baby falls from a tree!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Enjoy your eyesight! Yes, nursery rhymes can be!.!.!.and (some)
are morbid!. Yours (alas) rings true to the times!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You're good! Go for another one!Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes the pick up sticks one and ring around the rosie are about the plagueWww@QuestionHome@Com

Kewl Dude!Www@QuestionHome@Com

yeah it can!. In fact most have a negative connotation to them!. Jack and Jill is almost like a Romeo and Juliette story (Jack and Jill are in love and then something gets in the way and then Jack dies and Jill follows just as Romeo dies and then Juliette follows)!. Then rock-a-bye baby is about a baby falling from enormous heights!. Alouette is about a bird getting it's feathers all plucked off!.Humpty Dumpty is about someone committing suicide by flinging themselves off a wall/ building!. Most have a really twisted meaning!. that one kind of follows that but it's more blunt about it and it's not covered up by any characters or anything so it makes it more real!. hope this helps!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe, had way too many kids, so she sent them to bed hungry after she knocked 'em around ! WOW ! Hahaha !

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.All the King's Horses and all the King's men!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Couldn't put Humpty together again!.
Was he hard Boiled, or did egg yolk go flowing ( like blood ) all over the town !? Hmmm!.!.!.So Sad!. Actually, Humpty was a huge cannon, which was mounted upon a high wall-like church tower!. It was used in the Siege of Colchester during the English Civil War!. Humpty had a great fall when the tower was blown to bits by enemy cannon fire!. Of, course, they couldn't put it back together!.

Ring around the rosie!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.pocket full of posie!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.ashes, ashes we all fall down!. Ring around the rosie is a "cute" way of describing the Horrific, itchy round, red rash, which was the first symptom of the plague!. A pocket full of posie, this line refers to the practice of carrying flower petals in one's pocket and scattering them around the infected person's bed, as to protect themselves from the infection!. (They really believed that would work !? ) Ashes, ashes, is imitating the sound of the ill person sneezing ( I would say achew, achew)!. We all fall down, meaning we are all gonna drop down dead!. Sweet rhyme, huh!?

BaaBaa Blacksheep!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Have you any wool!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Yes, Sir, yes, Sir!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Three bags full!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.One for my Master!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.One for the Dame!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.And one for the little boy!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Who lives down the lane!.

This rhyme relates to a 13th century tax on wool imposed by the King!. One third went to the local Lord, or Master!. One third to the Church, or Dame!. Leaving a measly one third to the farmer, or little boy who lived down the lane!. Fair deal, huh !?

Mary, Mary!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Quite contrary!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.How does your garden grow!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.With silverbelles!.!.!.!.!.!.!. and cockleshells!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.And pretty maids!.!.!.!.!.All in a row!.

In my mind, I see a pretty young maiden tending her beautiful flower garden!. The truth, Mary is Bloody Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII!. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, had many innocent people tortured and beheaded!. She was a devoted Catholic and tortured Protestants into Catholicism!. If one remained true to his or her Protestant faith after extreme suffering through torture, they were beheaded!. The garden, actually the ever growing graveyard of innocent noncatholics!. Silver bells were thumbscrews, which crushed the thumb between two hard surfaces by tightening the screw!. Cockleshells ( I always wondered what this flower looked like ) were instruments of wickedly painful torture, which were clamped to the genitals!. ( YIKES ! OUCH ! ) Pretty Maids, of course, referring to the guillotine, or Maiden!.Www@QuestionHome@Com