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Children's Nursery Rhymes With their sometimes Macabre Hidden Meanings
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From Sweet Children's Nursery Rhymes comes some very Macabre Beginnings
1. Oranges and Lemons a Macabre Tale of Executions
2. Pop Goes the Weasel The history and story
3. Sing a song of sixpence A Pie with a Surprise
4. Mary Mary quite contrary The Queen of Scotland
5. Ring a-ring o’ roses Flowers and May Day
6. Humpty Dumpty Hic!
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Johnny Dod
Johnny Dod has been writing for many years. He is also a Poet and MusicianHe writes short stories and Children's stories His home is by the sea in Sussex England.How much of human life is lost in waiting, writers write while dreamers procrastinate.
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