Anybody know where these words come from?

[indianasmith]

"Sing a song of vengeance
Bodies in the mud
Dark Wings slowly beating
Blades red-slick with blood.
Tell a tale of anguish
Hearts are broke in two
Soul-sick soldiers waiting
The fighting starts anew."

Read them on a bathroom wall when I was in college . . . . been stuck in my head ever since.

[LilCerberus]

Definitely a parody of some nursery rhyme.
Mother Goose, I think.

I read a similar parody in Mad magazine back in the mid '80s

[Hammock Rider]

sounds like a college fight song, maybe the North Central Cardinals.

[lester1/2jr]

appears to be a parody of "sing a song of six pence pocket full of rye.."

[trekgeezer]

Here's the original

    Sing a song of sixpence,
    A pocket full of rye.
    Four and twenty blackbirds,
    Baked in a pie.

    When the pie was opened,
    The birds began to sing;
    Wasn't that a dainty dish,
    To set before the king?

    The king was in his counting house,
    Counting out his money;
    The queen was in the parlor,
    Eating bread and honey.

    The maid was in the garden,
    Hanging out the clothes;
    When down came a blackbird
    And snapped off her nose.

    They send for the king's doctor,
    who sewed it on again;
    He sewed it on so neatly,
    the seam was never seen.

[venomx]

"Sing a Song of Six Pants".