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Estava pensando por que tantas músicas têm versos dizendo "
all the king's horses and all the king's men". Parecia-me familiar, não conseguia pensar de onde a conhecia. Cavalos e homens do rei são a cavalaria e a infantaria, supõe-se. Depois de 15 minutos no google, encontro uma menção na wikipedia.
Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:
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.
That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
Enfim, vem de uma rima infantil do século XIX. Eu tinha um jogo em cd nos anos 90 pra aprender inglês que tinha essas músiquinhas. Jack & Jill é da hora, inclusive.
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