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One bright day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came to kill the two dead boys.
On one bright day in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up to fight Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each other The blind man came to see fair play The mute man came to shout hooray The deaf policeman heard the noise And came to stop those two dead boys He lived on the corner in the middle of the block
Learn about different versions of the nonsense rhyme One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, collected from various sources and regions. See how the rhyme changes and evolves with different elements, such as fire, water, dead animals, and dead men.
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night – Introduction. Although the Two Dead Boys poem (“One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night”) is often referred to as a nonsense rhyme, the description is not strictly accurate. It is clearly understandable in any of its many forms and versions and the impossibilities in the story are no more than ...
A crime that has not been committed. One fine day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men] Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other, One was blind and the other couldn't, see. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night (1999) is the fourth novel by Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre. Plot. Gavin Hutchinson, purveyor of non-threatening holidays to the British masses has organised a reunion for his old school classmates.
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“Late one night in the middle of the day, Two dead soldiers got up to fight.” The first lines of these last two variants were reversed by a third reader who had it linked with the second line as in variant one.
