Solomon Grundy
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"Solomon Grundy" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19299.
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Lyrics
The rhyme has varied very little since it was first collected by James Orchard Halliwell and published in 1842 with the lyrics:
- Solomon Grundy,
- Born on a Monday,
- Christened on Tuesday,
- Married on Wednesday,
- Took ill on Thursday,
- Grew worse on Friday,
- Died on Saturday,
- Buried on Sunday.
- This is the end
- Of Solomon Grundy.
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In popular culture
- The DC Comics character Solomon Grundy, a large, strong zombie supervillain, invented as an adversary for the Green Lantern in 1944, was named after this nursery rhyme.
- Comic artist and writer Kaori Yuki wrote a short story centered around the poem using characters from her series God Child, which was published at the end of book five.
- The poet Philippe Soupault adapted this rhyme and called it "The Life of Philippe Soupault".
- Director Danny Boyle has a film adaptation of "Solomon Grundy" planned, but delayed it due to similarities between its story and that of the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
- Ian McDonald wrote a science fiction novella "The Days of Solomon Gursky" (Asimov's Science Fiction June 1998, reprinted a. o. in Mike Ashley's anthology The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006)
- The Bluetones song "Solomon Bites the Worm" (1998) was based on this nursery rhyme.
- The Crash Test Dummies song "Superman's Song" (1991) mentions Solomon Grundy in its chorus.
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See also
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