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The term "eeny meenie miny mo catch a tiger by the toe" was originally a racist term replacing tiger with the n word. Even the replaced rhyme can still be offensive.

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Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Savannah 

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Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Savannah 

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“Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” is often sung as part of a children’s game. According to historian R. S. Duncan, a former governor of England’s Wakefield Prison, the song originated with that 420-year-old institution’s female prisoners, who were exercised around a mulberry tree. Which is probably not the connotation your six-year-old self had in mind.

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To many, “Old Mother Hubbard” is not a mother at all—nor a woman. The poem is speculated to have been written as a mockery of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, whose refusal to grant an annulment to King Henry VIII, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, led to his political downfall.

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Though most scholars agree that “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” is about the Great Custom, a tax on wool that was introduced in 1275, its use of the color black and the word “master” led some to wonder whether there was a racial message at its center. Its political correctness was called into question yet again in the latter part of the 20th century, with some schools banning it from being repeated in classrooms, and others simply switching out the word “black” for something deemed less offensive. In 2011, news.com.au reported on the proliferation of “Baa, Baa Rainbow Sheep” as an alternative

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It's a sad story, as he gets busted up and nobody can fix him. However, the real story behind the rhyme dates back to the English Civil War. Humpty was a huge cannon mounted atop a high wall-like church tower. During the Siege of Colchester, The tower was hit by enemy cannon fire and Humpty suffered a great fall. There was no fixing the cannon or the tower, and the Humpty Dumpty rhyme was born.

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“Three Blind Mice” is supposedly yet another ode to Bloody Mary’s reign, with the trio in question believed to be a group of Protestant bishops—Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Radley, and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer—who (unsuccessfully) conspired to overthrow the queen and were burned at the stake for their heresy. Critics suggest that the blindness in the title refers to their religious beliefs.

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Basically three bishops conspired to over throw the queen and they where burned

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It was based on a spoof by a court jester who thought it would be hilarious to trick the king by putting live birds into a pie shell. Some say one of the blackbird pecked off the kings nose.

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a group of 3 protestant nobleman who, who tried to conquer Queen Mary but were unsuccessful.

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There are references to a children’s game called “Bo-Peep”, from the sixteenth century, including one in Shakespeare’s King Lear, but little evidence that the rhyme actually existed. The words of Little Bo Peep are quite interesting as they contain words that are an almost forgotten part of the English language

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Of all of the phrases and idioms in the English language 'eeny, meenie, miny, mo' must be the one with the widest variety of spellings. I've opted for 'Eeny, meeny, miny, mo' but there are many others - 'Eenie, meenie, miney, moe', 'Eany, meany, miney, mo' and so on. Added to that, as far back as the 19th century

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Austin

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary sounds like a lovely English Garden poem. The fact is, the poem is about Queen Mary I of England, who became known affectionately as Bloody Mary by the end of her reign. The poem is about her graveyard of slain protestants, as she was a devout Catholic ruling England during a time of religious turmoil.

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One interpretation of this famous lullaby is that it is about the son of King James II of England and Mary of Modena. It is widely believed that the boy was not their son at all, but a child who was brought into the birthing room and passed off as their own in order to ensure a Roman Catholic heir to the throne.

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Jack and Jill

One of the most common theories surrounding the story’s origin is that it’s about France’s Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, who were both found guilty of treason and subsequently beheaded.

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Instead of the known lyrics catch a tiger by its toe the word tiger was originally an offensive word used to describe colored people that isn't school appropriate. Its a very racist song in that sense but can still offend people till this day

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It’s hard to imagine that any rhyme with the phrase “goosey goosey” in its title could be described as anything but feelgood. But it’s actually a tale of religious persecution, during the days when Catholic priests would hide themselves in order to say their Latin-based prayers, a major no-no at the time—not even in the privacy of one’s own home. In the original version, the narrator comes upon an old man “who wouldn’t say his prayers. So I took him by his left leg. And threw him down the stairs.”

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MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY  Jacinda Zemcik 

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MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY  Jacinda Zemcik 

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(1744)“Contrary” is one way to describe a murderous psychopath. The nursery rhyme, which reads like a solicitation for gardening advice, is actually a recounting of the homicidal nature of Queen Mary I of England, a.k.a. Bloody Mary. A fierce believer in Catholicism, her reign as queen—from 1553 to 1558—was marked by the execution of hundreds of Protestants. (Silver bells and cockle shells are torture devices, not garden accouterments.)

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The alleged destruction of London Bridge at the hands of Olaf II of Norway some time in the early 1000s. They say the Vikings made this rhyme and spread it across wherever they traveled.

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Three people tried to overthrow a queen but where caught and burned at the stack and blindness in the title refers to their religious beliefs.

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One theory of origin is that the rhyme relates to supposed destruction of London Bridge by Olaf II of Norway in 1014. Another theory that the rhyme refers to, the practice of burying children alive in the foundations of the bridge – though there is no evidence to support this. The fair lady referred to could be Matilda of Scotland who was responsible for the building of a series of London bridges, or Eleanor of Provence who had custody of the bridge income from 1269 to 1281.