What is the most violent nursery rhyme ever?

Question

nursery are so violent, dont u think so?

Answer 1

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Don't forget - Ring Around The Rosies or London Bridge

Answer 2

The cradle will rock

Answer 3

Rock a bye baby. I'm still wondering why any mom sings that to her infant

Answer 4

i think it would be "Little Red Riding Hood" cause the wolf eats everybody. doesn't make for good dreams huh?

Answer 5

Rock-a-bye-baby.
Yes, they were actually political allegories written mostly in 17th century England, when they couldn't speak their minds very easily.

Answer 6

i don't know if you would consier it violent, but Ring Around the Rosey is pretty gruesome; being about the plague and all

Answer 7

i dont know about violent but i know that "ring around the rosey" one is about the plague that killed just about half of europe back in the day....ewwwww.

Answer 8

Well when will you stop injecting your warped view of the world into children. Let them enjoy their nursery rhymes in all their innocence.

Answer 9

I think humpty dumpty is because:he had a great fall then it says that all the kings men couldnt put him together.....and wats up w/ the name humpty?


Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty HAD A GREAT FALL.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
COULDNT PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN!

Answer 10

Rock a bye baby. My son would not let me sing this song to him. He always said "How could someone drop a baby!!"

Answer 11

They're all pretty violent. They were little mockery of goverment at the time, not really kid stuff. It's funny because now in days some people get carried away with "hidden meanings"

I remember talking about this once, someone brought up the rhyme that goes "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? Silver bells, and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row" my friends response was "She did it!! She killed them and burried those poor girls in a row in her garden!! *foamspaz*"

Lol now I hardly think that's what it means, but my personal opinion, I'd say Rock abye baby or Three Blind Mice.

Three blind mice, three blind mice.
See how they run! See how they run!
They all ran after a farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?

Answer 12

Little Bunny FuFu was hopping through the forest,
Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head...

I have a very clear memory from kindergarten of singing this with the class and being whacked over the head with a book by the boy sitting behind me.

Answer 13

HUMPTY DUMPTY......!!

Answer 14

Jack and Jill with falling down hills come to mind

Answer 15

now that i think about it...all of 'em are perdy bad..poor wittle babies...!

Answer 16

Yes quite violent. Humpty Dumpty.....I dont read them to my kids yet. Although I may read them later (age of reason) when we can discuss where they came from...and make a connection with History for them.

Answer 17

the one about the plague. omg, i screamed when i was told that.

ring a ring of roses(for the grave)
a pocket full of posies (some onld traditional thing)
a tissue, a tissue(sneazing)
we all fall down (DEAD!!!)

IF THAT AINT SCARY, I DUNNO WHAT IS

Answer 18

The one about the poseys

Answer 19

rock a by baby

Answer 20

i think tha rock a bye baby is the most violent one im not reely sur tho n yea nursery rythms r violent

Answer 21

its that 1...2.. bukle my shoes its obout slaves that set up there own death(by fire heance the stick in rows)

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I think anyways don't quote me

Answer 22

Old Roger

Answer 23

mary mary quite contrary
speaks of Elizabeth and her cousin (who she ordered beheaded)

Answer 24

The "rock-a-by-baby" one is cuz it talks about a baby falling out a tree.

Answer 25

humpty dumpty sat on a wall. inci winci spider. rock a bye baby, jack & jill, there r so many which r quite bad.

Answer 26

hush little baby

Answer 27

hansel and grettle and the Holocaust.

Answer 28

They are all violent ...I was gonna say Humpty Dumpty, or
Roca-bye-baby, but people already said that, so how about The Jack Jump Over The Candle Stick one....think about it. And definietly the Three Blind Mice......that's a mean one and people wonder why we have hate crimes.

Answer 29

Rosies rosies and a pochet full of cosies ashes ashes and we all fall down i think thats how the song goes........

Answer 30

Probably not actually a nursery rhyme, but kids sing it. Lizzie Borden took an ax; gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her father 41.

Answer 31

yah the "rock a by baby"