Violent children's rhymes.

[Mysterian]

Three blind mice. Pretty bad. Cutting the tails off 3 mice with a disability.

Jack and Jill. Lots of bad tumbles and crown breaking, botched first aid, and in the later verses Jill gets beaten for "laughing at Jack's disaster".

Pop goes the weasel. Enough said? Exploding weasels sound awful. Particularly once they've eaten all that treacle and rice.

Any others?

Ring a ring of roses was about dc dying!!

Humpty Dumpty

babies falling out of cradles from great heights ( trees)

Oranges and lemons

Rickety tickety tin.

not convinced the 24 blackbirds enjoyed being baked either but pecking off noses is extreme

Bow bells... here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

Georgie Porgie was clearly a sex pest.

Heard my 5yo singing Goosy Goosy Gander yesterday and it hit me how awful it sounded when he innocently sang “Took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs!” Then “the stairs went crack, he broke his little back...” 🤣

Someone should loose their license and be sued over London Bridge falling down.
Were the 10 little Indian boys massakered, well I think one survived did he not?

Pop goes the weasle means taking your valuables to the porn shop.

And the piggy rhyme...

Piggy on the railway picking up stones
Along came an engine and broke piggy's bones
"Oh!" said Piggy, "that's not fair!"
"Ha!" said the engine driver, "I don't care!"

Sending little pigs to market.

The Wolf blowing your house down.

The little pig who went to market just bought some organic veg there and came back didn't he?

Didn't a lot of nursery rhymes originally contain hidden meaning as you could get tortured or worse for treason criticising those in power?

I think Three Blind Mice and Mary, Mary quite Contrary are about Mary I or Bloody Mary, Jack and Jill is the French Revolution (broke his crown) and Goosey, Goosey Gander is about saying the right prayers, can't remember if it's Protestant or Catholic.

I've just Googled Allouette Gentille Allouette - it's hideous! Just to sing that as a child. Drunken Sailor was a popular one in the playground although I don't think I really got it at the time!

And what the Hell is Soloman Grundy all about? Forgotten that one

Pop goes the weasle means taking your valuables to the porn shop. the what shop now?

Goosie goosie gander. So I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs. Hmmm

Dusty it's your coat. Weasel & stoat.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

A bit morbid...especially the repeated words “perhaps she’ll die.” And then...she does

We also used to sing this on long car journeys when I was little - terrifying. I think I am relatively unscathed.

The little pig who went to market just bought some organic veg there and came back didn't he?