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Among those Mother Goose rhymes, I guess "Humpty Dumpty" is in the top 5 ! This well-known rhyme is alredy thousand years old and it seems that it has many national versions but the main theme of this rhyme is of course Mr. Humpty Dumpty - the life-and-death story of an egg.
Nowadays, as we all know that Himpty Dumpty is in fact an Egg. But, don't you know that a thousand years ago, after singing this rhyme, children used to ask "Who is Humpty Dumpty"? heeeeeeee.. BUT... originally, Humpty Dumpty was a..... child! OR, was it a.?! Scholar Robert Ripley held that the reputedly "humpbacked" King Richard III (1452-1485), who was his kingdom tumble, would fit the role perfectly. But it would take a hard-boiled detective to know for sure ...
Here are some of the common versions of Mr. Egg- Humpty Dumpty. Among them, the frist one is the most well-known one, check the others out,okay dokie?!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again - usual version
This is a popular illustraion of 'Humpty Dumpty' by a famous Victorian children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. She treated Humpty Dumpty as a more conventional little boy in 1881 !
Hympty Dumpty sat on
a wall
Hympty Dumpty had a great fall;
Four score men, and four score more,
Cannot put Humpty Dumpty where he was before - Old Version
Humpty Dumpty ligs in
t'beck
Wid a white counterpane aroon his neck;
Forty doctors and forty wrights
Will nivver put Humpty Dumpty to rights. - Cumberland version
N.B.: ligs in t'beck: lies in the book
Hympty Dumpty and
his brother
Were as like as one another,
Couldn't tell one from t'other
Humpty Dumpty and his brother. - Somerset version
Humpty Dumpty sat on a
spoon,
Humpty will goin the egg cup soon;
And all the paste and all the glue
Will not make Humpty look like new. -Schoolchild version
Humpty Dumpty went to town,
Humpty Dumpty tore his gown;
All the needles in the town
Couldn't mend Humpty Dumpty's gown. - American version
Wirgele-Wargele, auf der Bank,
Fallt es'runter, ist es krank,
Ist kein Doktor im ganzen Land,
Der dem Wirgele-Wargelehelfen kann - German version