Solomon Grundy (nursery rhyme)
"Solomon Grundy" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299.[1]
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"Here lies ye bodye of Solomon Grundy. Died on Saturday..." An illustration from Clara E. Atwood's 1901 A Book of Nursery Rhymes
Lyrics
The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1842 with the lyrics:
- Short version
The words of a French version of the rhyme were adapted by the Dada poet Philippe Soupault in 1921 and published as an account of his own life:
See also
- "Monday's Child", a traditional English rhyme mentioning the days of the week
- "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron", a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a housewife carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week
References
- "Roud Folksong Index S276827Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. English Folk Dance and Song Society. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 394-5.
- "Solomon Grundy". Rhyme Zone. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
- Stewart, Susan. Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature, Johns Hopkins, 1979, p. 191. ISBN 0-8018-2258-0
- Littérature 19, May 1921, included under the title "Les chansons des buts et des rois" among several other adaptations of nursery rhymes
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