to be a bit shocked..

[OohBridget]

At this -1 minute 50 in.

The duck threw him down the stairs for not saying his prayers?!

..I thought dd was watching wheels on the bus!

[DoJo]

Link doesn't work for me, but I am intrigued...!

[talkingnonsense]

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[talkingnonsense]

Is it goosey goosey gander? Nursery rhyme?!

[COCKadoodledooo]

The link just takes me to a rather twee version of Old McDonald that's only 1min 18 seconds...

[ShylaMcClaus]

That nursery rhyme used to terrify me as a child. The DC loved it

[OohBridget]

yes goosey goosey gander

about the man who wouldn't say his prayers.

DD just went all wide-eyed. And I just thought, Surely I didn't actually just hear that?!

[DustyBaubles]

He does get thrown down the stairs, somehow I hadn't ever realised it was a duck doing the throwing.

[DoesntLeftoverTurkeySoupDragOn]

What about poor Humpty Dumpty?

[ShylaMcClaus]

This illustration from a Ladybird book was probably the reason I didn't like it.

No sanitised nursery rhymes in the seventies

[NoComet]

And what is he doing 'in my lady's chamber'

Always sounded dodgy!

I always added "So he put himself together again" to Humpty Dumpy, I hated the idea of leaving him in pieces.

[ShylaMcClaus]

Mrs Pumpkin Eater should LTB

[flipchart]

Ha! I remember sitting on my grandad's knee over 40 years ago with him singing this to me.

You have made me cry!!!

[Theas18]

There I met an old man who wouldn't say his prayers
So I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs!

IIRC

Glad my kids were pre u tube ! It's not scary on a twee CD for the car or in a book even (though I'm glad didn't't have THAT ladybird version!)

[diddl]

It's "I" who throw him down the stairs, isn't it?

Goosey, Goosey Gander
Whither shall I wander
Upstairs & downstairs
And in my lady's chamber

There I met an old man
who wouldn't say his prayers
So I took him by the left leg
And threw him down the stairs

The stairs went crack
The old man broke his back
And all the little ducks went
"quack quack quack"

What was the old man doing in the lady's chamber??!!

[diddl]

Oops, bit slow there!

[OohBridget]

Shyla

That is sinister!

[KirstyJC]

I always thought it was about a prostitute - my lady - and a client who didn't pay ie say his prayers. Not sure where I got the idea from and goodness only knows what they were doing with ducks.....

[Katz]

Google provides these explanations for various nursery rhymes.

www.cracked.com/article_16576_the-disturbing-origins-5-common-nursery-rhymes.html

[Topaz25]

Katz, that's interesting but disturbing. The origin of Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is really horrible too, I used to like that as a child.

[ShylaMcClaus]

Katz, that link is fascinating!

[JollySantersSelectionBox]

I can just see a Damon Hill lookalike farmer doing a dance with 3 animals in a not very profitable farm.

Little Red Riding Hood was also quite adult, and I remember the "Here does the chopper to chop off your head" was also about losing your virginity (Maidenhead).

[BillyBanter]

Re: Pop goes the weasel. The Eagle pub is my local and has left me poverty stricken a number of times.

[missingmumxox]

Diddl I have just fucking screen captured that as you are the first person in my 43 years who knows that last line! (Apart from my mum and gran both deceased nearly 20 years! My aunts, uncles even my own brother has denighed it's very exsistance.
I have even googled it and it doesn't appear anywhere thank you thank you thank you xxxx

[JollySantersSelectionBox]

Comes. Not does. Although that sounds even seedier now.

[missingmumxox]

Actually from the stairs went crack all of that bit, my gran told me it was a old man killed by the lady, because he tried to have sex with her against her will, I didn't get the idea of it I was 13, will look at the link now to see if she was correct.