I do remember this rhyme.
Der Struwel-Peter went like this:
Pfui! da steht er, der Struwel-Peter.
An den Haenden beiden,
liess er sich nicht schneiden,
seine Naegel fast ein Jahr
kaemmen liess er nicht sein Haar.
Mimi
Quoting veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com>:
> I'd forgotten Hoppla Hoppla Reiter even though I bounced my own kids
> to it and also my grandson who by now could bounce me. He is
> fighting forest fires in Arizona this summer and goes back for his
> last year of college next fall.
>
> But all the bringing up of rhymes brings to mind another one that I
> recall but can't remember where I got it - perhaps in school -
>
> Herr von Hagen
> Darf ich fragen
> Welchen Kragen
> Sie getragen
> Als Sie lagen
> Krank an Magen
> Vor acht Tagen
> In der Stadt zu Kopenhagen
>
> This should be a popular lyric in contemporary music where they take
> a single phrase and repeat it eight hundred times.
>
> But who remembers Max und Moritz and Strubelpeter and Hans in Gluck
> and the Karl May books? Children's literature of the day could be
> gruesome - Max und Moritz ended up being ground up in a mill into
> little kernels and then eaten up by ducks or geese. They'd have the
> law down on such an author today. But we forget the gruesome parts
> and laugh over their rascality.
>
> Andy
>
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