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Peter,
Peter, Pumpkin Eater |
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"Peter
Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her.
So he put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Peter,
Peter pumpkin eater,
Had another and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well." |
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Peter
Peter Pumpkin Eater is believed today to be a nursery rhyme of
an American origin, not English. It would seem it is about a
man who murdered his wife and hid her corpse in a pumpkin. |
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