Roses Are Red – Violets are blue. Horses that lose races, get turned into glue.
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This was written by my father, Leonard Lempert, during the Great Depression, when he sold gags to cartoonists. I think it ran in the New Yorker: one jockey to the other, in the Winner’s Circle: “I just whisper in his ear, Roses are red, violets are blue, horses that lose are made into glue”
Roses Are Red – Violets are blue. Horses that lose races, get turned into glue.
This was written by my father, Leonard Lempert, during the Great Depression, when he sold gags to cartoonists. I think it ran in the New Yorker: one jockey to the other, in the Winner’s Circle: “I just whisper in his ear, Roses are red, violets are blue, horses that lose are made into glue”
Thanks Judith for this info. Can you tell us something more about your father and how this joke was created?