The Farangs

The Farangs taught us many things. When we were children, we recited,
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

And wondered at the tragedy of Mr Dumpty. Then we sang,

Rock-a-bye, baby,in the tree top.
When the wind blows,the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks,the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby,cradle and all.

And silently wept at the baby’s misfortune at the hands of nature. Then came,

Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

Why were we as children being exposed to so much tragedy ?

And recently I read,

Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks,
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty–one.

My God, this Lizzie is a psychopath, but who wrote the poem ? But they do seem to come in the same pattern as the nursery rhymes of yesteryear. Is it in the Farang culture ?

As a young man, ABBA songs were among my favorite. Then came the movie. Mamma Mia tells the story of Sophie who longs to know the identity of her father. Understandable.
Then she stumbles upon her mum’s old diary, Sophie finds three men who could possibly be her dad ...

Perfectly normal and a classic for the farangs. But imagine this as a Tamil movie !