Creepy children's chants

children's games often creep adults out. Some adults think children should be shielded from the blood and gore.

But most kids quite like the blood and gore
Just think of the Original versions of the popular Fairy stories:
The Ugly sisters cut off their toes and heels to try and make the glass slipper fit.

And the evil queen in Snow White, met a quite gruesome end at the hands of the dwarfs., with shoes made of red hot iron.

Children often play gruesome games with chants - when they think adults are out of earshot. Here is one chant:

"Cats got the measles,
Dogs got the Flu
We've got Chickenpox,
Now so have you."


Many of the old childrens rhymes and fairy stories are Very graphic and gruesome. In recent years political correctness and adults who think children should be wrapped in cotton wool until they are 21 year old - have removed all the blood and gore .
But that's the bits children liked - every one likes a good scare when the bad guy gets it in the end in suitably graphic detail.
-steven m

everyone know this one, but its still very strange:

Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all