'Fee-fi-fo-fum' lyrics

'Fee-fi-fo-fum' lyrics

The rhyme 'Fee-fi-fo-fum' could be over 400 years old, if not more. Here are its lyrics

Published: April 3, 2023 at 9:39 am

Famous for appearing in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, the rhyme is pretty old - centuries old in fact

The first appearance we know about is its reference in the 1596 pamphlet "Haue with You to Saffron-Walden" by Thomas Nashe, who says that the rhyme was already old and its origins obscure.

'Fee-fi-fo-fum' lyrics

Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead I'll grind his bones to make my bread


Main image © Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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