JACK
& JILL
Jack
and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up
Jack got and home did trot
As fast as he could caper;
Went to bed and bound his head
With vinger and brown paper.
When
Jill came in, how she did grin
To see Jack's paper plaster.
Mother, vexed, did whip her next
For causing Jack's diaster.
Have you sung this song when you were in kindergarten?! I did! That's why
I was fond of this song ^_^. Surprisingly, this rhyme began as a tale of two
boys, Jack and Gill, whom some scholars believe are modeled on Cardinal Thomas
Wolsey and his colleague Bishop Tarbes. In 1518, in the service of Henry VIII
(1491 - 1547), Wolsey later raised the poor people's taxes to finance the
British troops dragged into the fray. The rhyme mocks the collapse of the
men's "uphill" battle for peace. 
~The End ~