If a Man Who Turnips Cries

The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. 1886.

If a man who turnips cries
Cries not when his father dies,
It is a proof that he would rather
Have a turnip than his father.

Tags - Paradoxes - Father - Son - Turnip - Death - Grieving -

Origin - Europe - British Isles -