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"Solomon Grundy" is an
"Les chansons des buts et des rois"
among several other adaptations of nursery rhymes
"Solomon Grundy" is an English
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nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299.
Lyrics
The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected byJames Orchard Halliwell
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (born James Orchard Halliwell; 21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889) was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
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The son of Thomas Halliwell, ...
and published in 1842 with the lyrics:
;Short version
The words of a French version of the rhyme were adapted by the Dada
Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Pari ...
poet Philippe Soupault
Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault in ...
in 1921 and published as an account of his own life:
:PHILIPPE SOUPAULT dans son lit / né un lundi / baptisé un mardi / marié un mercredi / malade un jeudi / agonisant un vendredi / mort un samedi / enterré un dimanche / c'est la vie de Philippe Soupault ''Littérature'' 19, May 1921, included under the titl"Les chansons des buts et des rois"
among several other adaptations of nursery rhymes
See also
* "Monday's Child
"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with ma ...
", a traditional English rhyme mentioning the days of the week
* "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is an English folk song about a man admiring the girl he loves as she goes through daily stages of washing and ironing clothes. It is classified as Round number 869. The earliest date in the Vaughan Williams c ...
", a traditional English folk song
The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally wit ...
written in the 19th century about a housewife carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week
References
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