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  • One dark night in the middle of the day.

    From Kimberley Richardson@21:1/5 to rainbird on Wed Apr 21 08:45:33 2021
    On Friday, June 9, 1995 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, rainbird wrote:
    I'm looking for the author of this nonsensical poem.
    "One dark night in the middle of the day
    Two dead boys went out to play
    drew their knives and shoot each other
    a deaf policeman heard the noise
    and went to investigate the two dead boys"
    Can anyone tell me the author or give me a clue how to find them?
    Thanks in advance!
    The version I learned went like this:
    One dark night in the middle of the day
    two dead boys got up to play
    back to back they faced each other
    drew their swords and shot each other
    one was blind and the other couldn't see
    so they chose a blind man to referee
    a paralyzed donkey passing by
    kicked the blind man in the eye
    knocked him through a nine inch wall
    into a dry ditch and drowned them all
    a deaf policeman heard the noise
    and came to arrest those two dead boys
    if you don't believe this story is true
    ask the blind man
    he saw it too

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  • From Frank Cummings@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 18 19:41:22 2021
    On Saturday, June 10, 1995 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, CheriG7222 wrote:
    If this poem is fairly old, it may be a take off on a nursery rhyme for
    which it is very difficult to trace authors.
    I'm 80 and this poem was old when I was a Boy Scout - 50s! We made up more and worse, for instance: The worms crawl in the worms crawl out in my ....

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