"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.
Definitely a parody of some nursery rhyme.
Mother Goose, I think.
I read a similar parody in Mad magazine back in the mid '80s
sounds like a college fight song, maybe the North Central Cardinals. :drink:
appears to be a parody of "sing a song of six pence pocket full of rye.."
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.
"Sing a Song of Six Pants". :bouncegiggle: :twirl: :bouncegiggle: