"Solomon Grundy" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299.
Lyrics The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1842 with the lyrics:
The words of a French version of the rhyme were adapted by the Dada poet Philippe Soupault 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 SoupaultLittérature 19, May 1921, included under the title among several other adaptations of nursery rhymes
See also
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron", an English folk song mentioning the days of the week "Monday's Child", an English rhyme mentioning the days of the week Solomon Grundy, a DC Comics character of the same name
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