Here is a Mother Goose ditty that is just DREADFUL, as far as I'm concerned! Of course, most of the fairy tales that came over from England or wherever, have been cleaned up BIG TIME in order to enter the USA children's little ears. I don't like knowing what they USED to sound like...usually about abuse and torture, believe it or not!
A MELANCHOLY SONG
Trip upon trenchers,
And dance upon dishes,
My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
She bid me go lightly,
And come again quickly,
For fear the young men should do me some harm.
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
What naughty tricks they put upon me?
They broke my pitcher
And spilt the water,
And huffed my mother,
And chid her daughter,
And kissed my sister instead of me.
