
Nursery
Rhymes
But nursery
rhymes are what I'm interested in, yes, 'cause nursery rhymes, remember
when you were in the nursery? But it wasn;t really in the nursery, 'cause
in the nursery, you used to say anything, just blaaaahh, it's really,
er, primary school rhymes, and they had social commentary in, a lot
of them had social commentry, like ring-a-ring of roses, you know?
Ring-a-ring
of roses,
A pocket full of poses,
Atishoo, atishoo,
We've
got the plague.
Great
last line there! It's actually we all fall down, it's about the plague,
and they've got posys, blaaaargh, and we used to sing it as kids, and
have a great time over it. Another one, Mary Mary, quite contrary, how
does your garden grow? That's about Mary, Queen of Scots. Now, they
cut her head off, right, and I think quite contrary is just a little
wierd...
"Mary,
we're gonna cut off your head now, how do you feel?"
"Oooh, quite contrary"
Fucking
pissed off! That's how she'd feel! Mary Mary fucking pissed off, how
does your garden grow? So that's the social comment, how does your garden
grow means what is your economic policy towards England at the present
time? Then the second part of the poem is just a bit weird:
How dows
your garden grow?
With cockle shells,
And silver bells,
And pretty maids all in a row.
Now that's
just drugs, isn't it? That's the poet, he's writing, he got half way,
smoked himself crazy, "fucking hell, the Queen's a banana, her advisors
are all peas, and that's how me garden grows, missus". And then there's
other ones, you know "Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?", and
you think, "oooh, yes, there's social commentry in that, all about racism",
and no! It's all about wool! Which is quite funny, it's all about wool,
and tax. Someone thought "Hey! I'm gonna write a song about this, wool,
and how many bags of wool? Three, and one for this guy, one for this
guy, and one for that guy, Zzzzzzzz (snoring sound)"
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