Solomon Grundy (nursery rhyme)

"Solomon Grundy" is an English nursery rhyme.

It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299.

[1] The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1842 with the lyrics: Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday.

This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.

[2] 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 Soupault[3][4]

"Here lies ye bodye of Solomon Grundy. Died on Saturday..." An illustration from Clara E. Atwood's 1901 A Book of Nursery Rhymes