13 Little Boy Blue
//The nursery rhyme Little Boy Blue most likely has no real historical background. It has been speculated, however, that it may speak about Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a powerful political figure and a contemporary of King Henry VIII. His father was said to be a butcher and a cattle dealer, and so in childhood he may have been a shepherd to his father’s flocks. Being very wealthy, powerful and somewhat arrogant, he had many enemies who may have used this fact as a basis to make a mocking rhyme. But, as already said, it’s only a speculation that circulates with this rhyme. Even the fact that his father was a butcher may very well be made up by his enemies to humiliate him.//