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Humpty Dumpty
Key: G90 BPMGuitar & Piano chords
Humpty Dumpty Lyrics. One of the most famous riddle rhymes in the English language, just four short lines that have puzzled and delighted children for well over two centuries. Here you will find the full rhyme, its history, and chords for guitar and piano.
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Traditional rhyme
GHumpty Dumpty sat on a D7wall
GHumpty Dumpty had a great D7fall
GAll the king’s horses and Call the king’s Gmen
CCouldn’t put GHumpty together aD7gain
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What “Humpty Dumpty” Means
First printed in England in 1797, though almost certainly sung as an oral riddle long before that. The verse never actually says Humpty Dumpty is an egg, that has always been the answer for the listener to guess, since only an egg could fall and truly never be put back together. A popular story links the rhyme to a cannon lost during the English Civil War siege of Colchester in 1648, but historians have never been able to confirm it, so it remains a fun piece of folklore, not a documented fact.
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- Words and melody: see the credits in the text of this page. Older songs are traditional or in the public domain; songs by known authors keep their authors' credit.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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