The Possible Biblical Origins of The Nursery Rhyme ?little Boy Blue.?

by treesftf






More than the a long time I have recognized that much of what is in the secular world arrived from the sacred Bible in a modified form. “Little Boy Blue” the Nursery Rhyme is no exception. The book of Joel in the Bible has only three chapters. It is a single of the shortest e-book in the Bible. Yet inside of its pages we can see, possibly, the supply of the “Little Boy Blue” rhyme in its adapted type. Some think that Cardinal Wolsey was referred to in the rhyme in the sixteenth century. Nonetheless, ahead of Cardinal Wolsey was the book of Joel, pointing out the cardinal sins of the priests and ministers and the resultant drought and plague that followed.




Let us look at the nursery rhyme in its entirety:
“Little Boy Blue arrive blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn. But where's the boy who seems following the sheep? He is below a haystack quickly asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I For if I do, he's sure to cry.”
We will now offer with every single line separately:
(one) “Little Boy Blue come blow your horn.”
The identify “Little Boy Blue” most likely is just an endeavor at alliteration as nicely as a pun on the term “blue” which sounds like “blew.” He is told to “blow” the trumpet and of course the Prior Tense of “blow” is “blew.” Significantly less probably is the simple fact that Israel was told to have a border of blue on their clothing. Num. fifteen:38 states:

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