Monday, February 4, 2019

The Rooster's Rhyme: An Anonymous Nursery Rhyme

"Angus lost a shoe not far from the folly. Alethea vanished from a picnic. Albert left for Peru." So wrote Edward Gorey in The Helpless Doorknob: A Shuffled Story (1989), a pack of twenty cards featuring his finely detailed, enigmatic art and text. I based my selection and arrangement of the three sentences by Edward Gorey that I quoted above on the following anonymous nursery rhyme:


Cock-a-doodle-doo!
My dame has lost her shoe,
My master's lost his fiddlestick,
And knows not what to do.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!
What is my dame to do?
Till master finds his fiddlestick,
She'll dance without her shoe.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!
My dame has found her shoe,
My master's found his fiddlestick.
Sing doodle-doodle-doo!

Cock-a-doodle-doo!
My dame will dance with you,
While master fiddles his fiddlestick
For dame and doodle-doo.

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