Nursery Rhyme for a Pandemic

This little version of that age old classic “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” was in response to one of my keepsake poem commissions. I wrote it as a little extra alongside the main poem, inspired by how the client’s 6 year old saw everything that was going on.

Now, obviously this version ends on a more positive note than that poor old lady! She ate a horse and died… of course - remember?

TEXT version:

There once was a bat that carried a virus
It didn’t do much, that sleepy virus
Just sat in silence

There once was a snake who swallowed the bat
And inside the bat the virus is sat
Now fancy that!

There once was a person who swallowed the snake
The virus went wild, chaos in its wake
For goodness sake!

There once was a scientist who made a vaccine
It stopped the virus being so mean
So hope’s foreseen!