Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

Tana: This is me, Tana Johns, & my husband Eric Johns dressed up as the phrase Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater as a couples costume. His shirt was made with puff paint...

“Childcraft, Volume One. Poems of Early Childhood.” Published by the Quarrie Corp in Chicago. Copyright 1923, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, and 1939. Edited by S. Edgar Farquhar and Patty Smith Hill. Art editor Milo Winter. 38 artists listed in addition to the work of Milo Winter. Illustrated by Billie Parks.

Kristen: My boyfriend Jeff is wearing a Peter Peter shirt with orange paint on his face with pumpkin seeds. I am wearing a black pumpkin sweater with a tutu and Halloween...

Peter peter pumpkin eater couples costume!

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This is the Mother Goose rhyme of Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater, as it usually appears: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her; He put her in a pumpkin shell And there he kept her very well. There is a second verse, that is sometimes appended: Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her; Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well. It is not, perhaps, in this form, a very old rhyme. Its first recorded publication was in 1825, in Boston…

Itty Bitty Rhyme: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater