riddle

[sparkypaul]

can anyone remember the riddle (my grandparents used to tell me as a child) which starts.........One bright day in the middle of the night, I met a blind man with perfect sight......

[Numbers]

The version I know:

 

One bright day in the middle of the night

Two dead man got up fo fight

Back to back, they faced each other

Drew their swords, then shot each other

[Numbers]

*dead men

[druiaghtagh]

Follow on to lodekka, two blind men to see fair play

two dumb men to shout hooray

and two dead men to carry them away.

 

[incognito]

We had another similar nosense verse:- One dark night in the middle of the day The Thames caught fire and the water ran away. A blind man saw it, A deaf man heard it, A man with no legs ran to the fire station, The fire-engine came with two dead horses, Ran over a dead cat & half killed it The bit about the fire engine having horses dates it rather

[Kingaroo]

The American folk song "oh susannah" has internal illogic, but this isn't helping Sparky Paul It rained all night the day I left The weather was bone dry The sun so hot I froze myself Susannah don't you cry