Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty was an Earth nursery rhyme. The appearance of the character was often likened to that of Sontarans on multiple occasions.
== History ==
In the Sontaran mothership above the Eleven-Day Empire, Lolita soothed her child, referring to General Kine as "the nasty Humpty-Dumpty man" after he had been shouting. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire)
As documented in Professor Clifford Measey's book Myths & Historical Impossibilities, a version of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme as included in the 1819 book Mrs Molbury's Collected Rhymes Both Ancient and Modern was distinct from other printings; after the first verse, the rhyme veered into an account about "the Fool", presumably the Eleventh Doctor, saving Strax who was stranded on Earth; (PROSE: Waving Through Time) the Doctor would later call upon Strax's aid given he was indebted to the Doctor. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
Shortly before the Sontaran invasion of Earth in 2009, UNIT Private Harris told General Staal to "stop playing Humpty Dumpty". (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem)
In 2540, Jo Grant recited this rhyme to counter 's hypnotism. (TV: Frontier in Space)
=== Undated events ===
The Ninth Doctor called the Lect Humpty Dumpty. (COMIC: Weapons of Past Destruction)
== Lyrics ==
The version of Humpty Dumpy as printed in Mrs Molbury's Collected Rhymes Both Ancient and Modern had the following lyrics:
: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
: All the King's Horses and all the King's Men
: Couldn't put Humpty together again.
: But then came a cry, 'twas from the King's Fool:
: Opining that bow ties look fashionably cool.
: He stepped from a blue box and said with a grin:
: What a terrible pickle you've got yourselves in.
: Humpty,' he said, 'is far more than he seems.
: No egg but a monster from beyond your worst dreams.
: So I would suggest, you give him a wide berth
: He's a Sontaran trooper who's stranded on Earth.
: The Fool waved his wand, and Humpty awoke,
: The the Fool knelt beside him and in hushed tones spoke:
: I've saved you from death, so we must face the facts —
: You are now in my debt, and I've work for you Strax...
(PROSE: Waving Through Time)
Category:Songs from the real world
Category:Poetry from the real world
Category:Nursery rhymes