Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1917 — Mother Goose Rhymes For the Kaiser. [ARTICLE]

Mother Goose Rhymes For the Kaiser.

With apologies to George Ade’s lessons for children, why not modernize our old nursery rhymes? As our grandmothers sang it in the Nineteenth Century. “The Blackbird Pie.” 1817. Sing a song of six pence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked into a pie; —When the pie begins to bake Then- the birds begin to sing. Oh, isn’t that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king is in the parlor Counting out his money, The queen is in the kitchen Eating bread and honey; The maid is in the garden Spreading out the clothes, And along comes a blackbird And pecks her on the nose. Modernized for the Twentieth Century. ‘‘The World’* Warcry.” 1917. Sing a song of Liberty Bonds, A pocket full of coin, Four and twenty soldiers Starting for “The Rhoine”; When their front begins to break Then for peace the Boches sing. Oh! but what an awful crime We hold against their king! The Kaiser goes to “Huntown” To give the Austrians money, The Queen goes up to Stockholm To give her spies their honey; The chancellor rides the Reichstag But is about to lose the reins, ’Long comes Uncle Sam’s new airships And shells their headless brains. BUY LIBERTY BONDS NOW.

WALTER GILMORE.