Ultimate Conclusions: “Humpty Dumpty” remains one of the most famous nursery rhymes ever. Because it’s short, it’s fun and it’s concise, largely.
But also because it’s mysterious.
Reciting the rhyme, one can’t help but wonder: what does this mean?
Perhaps it’s a metaphor for things breaking. Once an egg is shattered this is no putting it back together, not for you, not for the king’s men.
Or, maybe, more than a metaphor for a shattered vase, it’s a reference to a fallen king or monarch.
Once a leader falls, there is no going back.
Another theory is that a “Humpty Dumpty” was a slang term for a cannon that was managed to get atop a tower wall and fire down below.
Really, though, it could mean anything.
A cannon, a king, an egg, a vase, a short person, a drink, an idea.
In the end, that’s the point. Humpty Dumpty can be anything.
Even us.
The nursery rhyme was first recorded in England in the late 18th Century. . .The lyrics then refer to the kings men - the royalist supporters in support of King Charles I - being unable to fix the canon. However, it is believed that 19th Century author Lewis Caroll was the first to depict Humpty Dumpty as an egg in his 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.And since then, Humpty Dumpty as an egg has been the prevailing view
On Twitter, Holly wrote that the egg was 'non-cannonical madness we've blindly accepted.'"Humpty Dumpty" Nursery Rhyme Lyrics :
Ten Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Nine Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Eight Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Seven Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Six Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Five Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Four Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Three Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Two Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
One Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
One Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
No Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
No Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Didnt put Humpty together again
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