Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

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Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is an English nursery rhyme. Unlike a good many other nursery rhymes, this has American instead of European origin [1].

Peter Peter pumpkin eater,

Had a wife but couldn't keep her.

He put her in a pumpkin shell,

And there he kept her very well.

Contents 1 Additional Verse 2 References in popular culture 3 Notes 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Additional Verse

Another verse of unverified origin is listed [2] as:

Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,

Had another and didn't love her;

Peter learned to read and spell,

And then he loved her very well.

[edit] References in popular culture

One of Gary Larson's single-panel Far Side cartoons, Pumpkineater is in court, and a television reporter announces to a camera that his sister, Jeannie Jeannie Eatszucchini, is about to testify against him.

In Todd McFarlane's/Greg Parisi's "Twisted Fairy Tales" line, Peter is depicted as a ragged and crazed man and is stuffing his wife's bloody remains inside a pumpkin.

In the comic "Grimm Fairy Tales" annual 01 there is a depiction of Peter as a murderous hillbilly that has wished to get a wife, gotten one that cheated on him and then chopped her up and stuffed her into his pumpkins.

The Family Guy episode, Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater is a play on the nursery rhyme's title.

The Garth Brooks song "It's Midnight Cinderella" also mentions Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

Eeper Weeper

[edit] References

1. Peter Peter pumpkin eater. All Info About Nursery Rhymes. Retrieved on 2005-08-07.
2. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Rhyme. Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins. Retrieved on 2005-08-07.
3. The History of Nursery Rhymes. History of Nursery Rhymes. Retrieved on 2006-09-19.