One of the things to keep in mind about folk poetry is that, in the original, and in established versions, folk poetry invariably rhymes. This is particularly true of the Two Dead Boys rhyme and readers should understand that variants that include verses with lines that do not rhyme are probably family memorials.

These are interesting to the folklorist both as aspects of general studies in family folklore, and for their component parts as analytical constituents in specific papers, such as the one on this web site.

Thanks to all of you who have written to us. If we have missed citing your particular variant, we apologise; keeping all our correspondence straight is sometimes less efficient than it should be.