Little Boy Blue is a nursery rhyme with probable origins in the Middle Ages. Little Boy Blue was a hayward by profession. A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Hayward, or hedge warden, was an occupation in the Middle Ages, now defunct. ...
Rhyme
Little boy blue, come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn
Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack fast asleep
Will you wake him? Oh no, not I
For if I do he will surely cry
Alternate versions
Many versions do not include the last two lines, ending the rhyme at "fast asleep."
Little Boy Blue was also the name of an obscure kid crime fighter from the 1940s created by DC Comics. A revamped version named Boy Blue appeared in the new Seven Soldiers series written by Grant Morrison.
"Little Boy Blue" is the name of a song by Australian band The Gyroreceptors.
Little Boy Blue was the target of an off-color joke by comedian Andrew Dice Clay. In one of several nursery rhyme parodies, Clay intones, "Little Boy blew. He needed the money."
Little Boy Blue was one of the characters used in the "Fairy Tale Photoshoot" on the sixth cycle of America's Next Top Model
Electric Light Orchestra has a song called "Boy Blue" off their 1974 album Eldorado.
Little Boy Blue was the name the townspeople of Chester, Nebraska, gave to a dead child in blue pajamas found in a cornfield on Christmas Eve, 1985. The case is the subject of a book by crime author Gregg Olsen. The boy's father was later identified as Amishman Eli Stutzman.
Little boy blue is a song by Judge Dread
Little Boy Blue was recently used as the basis for a short story in the annual for the 2007 Grimm Fairy Tales (comic series) by writer Christian Beranek and artist Siya.
I too was once a littleboy in a red shirt, growing up on a small farm in Northern Kentucky.
Speaker Hastert said it would be ridiculous to rebuild your home, your schools and your playgrounds, and the ice cream shop you love and the bright and beautiful streets you knew where people used to laugh and kiss and love one another and enjoy a life of grace and beauty.
All the while, the putrid dead souls of the lying and racist and classist politicians and their supports will be floating amid the empty and cold discarded debris in our universe and they will not remember the goodness, and they will be empty vessels, their humanity not even a memory.
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