Georgie porgie puddin' and pie.
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play.
Georgie porgie ran away.
I heard this more than I care to recount growing up and even up to this day. So, I decided I would find out where the heck it came from.
Turns out that the infamous Georgie Porgie was actually George Villiers, the 1st Duke of Buckingham from 1592 to 1598. Apparently His Lordship, Duke Villiers, was of questionable moral character and had made himself a great deal of enemies among married men in his vicinity. The Duke, however, was a very good friend of King James the First, who protected him from any vengeance. Apparently, George was the kings favorite, with the king calling him his, "Sweet Child and Wife." Weird!
Duke George made a few mistakes in his life and had to be bailed out by King Charles I.
He was also blamed for the disastrous failure (Feb.–Mar., 1625) of an English expedition, under Graf von Mansfeld, to recover the Palatinate for Frederick, the Winter King, Buckingham failed to supply it adequately. By this time Charles had become king, and Buckingham was more powerful than ever, a fact that enraged Parliament. After the embarrassing failure (Oct., 1625) of an expedition against Cádiz, Buckingham was impeached (1626), and Charles dissolved Parliament to prevent his trial. The following year Buckingham led an expedition (another disaster) to relieve the Huguenots of La Rochelle, and Parliament delivered another remonstrance against him. The duke was at Portsmouth preparing yet another expedition for La Rochelle when he was killed by John Felton, a disgruntled naval officer. The romantic aspects of the duke's career figure largely in Alexander Dumas's historical novel, The Three Musketeers. ~ The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
Anyway, knowing the history makes me like the rhyme even less.
Waisted time........
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