1.15.2009

drives me nuts!

Isn't one of the whole points behind nursery rhymes is that they RHYME? Hence the name!!!

Have you noticed lately with what they (who ever they are) have done to Hickory Dickory Dock?

Here is the original version - how I can remember learning it....

Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the clock
the clock struck one
down he run (sometimes "down he come")
Hickory Dickory Dock

Rhymes.... see?!

New version:

Hickory Dickory Dock
the mouse ran up the clock
the clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory Dickory Dock

I am assuming they changed it since the former was not proper English....

But I ask - what is worse.... not having proper English or reading a nursery rhyme that DOESN'T RHYME!!! Jeeze!