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Traditional lyrics. Original music by Sockeye Media LLC © 2014. All rights reserved.
Lyrics:
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater
Had a wife, and couldn’t keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Historical Background
“Peter Piper” is a classic tongue-twister. This rhyme practices speech and articulation. In “Literary Leisure, Or Recreations of Solomon Saunter” (1802), satirist Hewson Clarke said the rhyme should be practiced “three times a two without drawing breath,…[rendering] it as useful lesson in the art of elocution.