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18.01.2023 - 23:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Social media users have been left horrified after discovering the seemingly innocent tale of Little Bo-Beep actually has a far more sinister meaning behind it. The well known nursery rhyme goes: "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, / And can’t tell where to find them."
However, like many other popular childhood poems the true explanation behind it is much darker than most people realise despite it staring them straight in the face, the Mirror reports. One would only have to glance over these lyrics to realise this 'spooky' song is one that most parents should probably not sing around their children.
While many of us are familiar with the famous first verse of the rhyme, it appears not everyone has read the disturbing lyrics in full. The full nursery rhyme reads:
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, Bringing their tails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For they were still all fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they’d left their tails behind them.
It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray Into a meadow hard by, There she espied their tails, side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks went rambling, And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, To tack again each to its lambkin.
Dr Oliver Tearle who is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University says in Interesting Literature: "It's hard to imagine children dancing around and clapping to its words about a poor
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