Who wrote this please?

[echokilo]

One bright morning in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back-to-back they faced one another, Drew their swords and shot each other. One was blind and the other couldn't see, So they chose a dummy for a referee. A blind man went to see fair play, A dumb man went to shout "hooray!" A deaf policeman heard the noise, And came and killed those two dead boys. A paralyzed donkey walking by, Kicked the copper in the eye, Sent him through a nine inch wall, Into a dry ditch and drowned them all. (If you don't believe this lie is true, Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)

[shoota]

I suspect the origins of this are lost in the mists of time.....
Doubtless I'll be proved wrong!

[chaptazbru]

I don't think anybody knows who wrote this.

[shaneystar2]

It's called nonsense verse or ballads of impossibilities in the style of Lear or Lewis Carroll etc.
I don't think anybody knows who wrote that particular one .

[echokilo]

Thanks everyone .... thought it might have been the same author as whoever wrote "Tonight at noon ....." which has a line, "while the dead quietly bury the living" as it seems kind of similar ..... don't know who wrote this either!!! Don't know much today do I??!!

[jno]

http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Onefineday.htm

[tenrec]

I've never heard that full version. Very good.

[AdriSco]

"Tonight at Noon" was written by Adrian Henri, one of the Liverpool poets. As for the one beginning "One bright morning" - Hav'nt a clue I'm afraid.

[RATTER15]

You did!!

[factor-fiction]

There were nonsense stories/poems like this around when I was at school in the early 70s.
I remember one that started: " I went to the pictures tomorrow and bought a front seat at the back..."

[factor-fiction]

http://www.archive.or...ToThePicturesTomorrow

[RATTER15]

Dear Ladies and Jellyspoons

I come before you
to stand behind you
And tell you something
I know nothing about

Next Thursday,
which is Good Friday,
there will be a Mothers meeting,
for Fathers only.

Wear your best clothes
if you haven't any,
and if you can come,
please stay at home.

Admission's free
pay at the door.
Take a seat
and sit on the floor.

It makes no difference
where you sit
The man in the gallery's
sure to spit.

[EDDIE51]

'Tonight at Noon' is worth reading text here
http://www.swans.com/library/art6/xxx053.html

[flicrat]

Ratteris got there first! We used to say that on the playground in the 40s, ditto the other in the initial question, but ours started
"One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight". The rest was more or less the same. I assumed it was like the skipping rhymes, just anonymous and traditional.

[vivandorron]

I'm surprised the Ed hasn't told thee,
That the words may have come from me;
Or even suggested that they came from he,
Whom we refrain from challenging, within AB. :-)

Ron.

[SueMaggie]

It seems to be a folk rhyme so probably no known author - http://www.folklore.b...nefineday.htm#Onefine