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.
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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.
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.
Notes
References
- Peter Peter pumpkin eater. All Info About Nursery Rhymes. Retrieved on August 7, 2005.
- Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Rhyme. Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins. Retrieved on August 7, 2005.
- The History of Nursery Rhymes. History of Nursery Rhymes. Retrieved on September 19, 2006.
