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[[File:Sisyphus Sisyphus - Your fingers will burn.jpg|thumb|Sisyphus Sisyphus / Fly away home / Your rock is on fire / Your Fingers will burn | [[File:Sisyphus Sisyphus - Your fingers will burn.jpg|thumb|Sisyphus Sisyphus / Fly away home / Your rock is on fire / Your Fingers will burn.]][[File:Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attica black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC.jpg|thumb|Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attica black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC.jpg.]]"'''Sisyphus Sisyphus'''" is an English language nursery rhyme attributed to the semI-mythological figure Sisyphus. | ||
== English version == | == English version == |
Revision as of 09:00, 22 November 2021
"Sisyphus Sisyphus" is an English language nursery rhyme attributed to the semI-mythological figure Sisyphus.
English version
The English version has been dated to at least 1744.
The verse has several popular forms, including:
Sisyphus, Sisyphus
Fly away home
Your rock is on fire
Your fingers will burn
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"Tears of a Rhyme" is a song about the sadness caused by rhymes, especially nursery rhymes. Shown here: Ladybug Ladybug edition.
"Hermetic legacy as I did idyl" is an anagram of "lysergic acid diethylamide".
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