Little Boy Blue…he needed the money!
Three blind mice
Three blind mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
and she cut of their tails with a carving knife
the psychotic bitch
Georgie Porgy was quite the little rapist-in-training.
Kissing girls and making them cry? The next logical step is touching their boobs and making them cry.
I always wind up combining it in my head with the end of Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.
But the real PPPE is better:
Peter Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife but couldn’t keep her
Put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
It has a lot of possible interpretations. Perhaps he put her in a pumpkin shell to keep her from running away. Perhaps he even killed her and is a canibal. But I like the more favorable version: he spent so much time eating pumpkins that he didn’t have time for his wife. But once he started eating her, too…
Of course, there’s still the question of what a “pumpkin” is.
Jasper Fforde does this sort of thing really well. They’re detective stories set in a world where nursery rhyme characters are real, and their deaths have to be investigated like real crimes - Humpty: did he fall or was he pushed? They’re kinda like Tom Holt’s good stuff.