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Sisyphus Sisyphus / Fly away home / Your rock is on fire / Your Fingers will burn.

Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attica black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC.jpg.

"Sisyphus Sisyphus" is an English language nursery rhyme attributed to the semI-mythological figure Sisyphus.

The English version has been dated to at least 1744.

The verse has several popular forms, including:

Sisyphus, Sisyphus
Fly away home
Your rock is on fire
Your fingers will burn

Sisyphus versus the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
"Tears of a Rhyme" is a song about the sadness caused by rhymes, especially nursery rhymes. Shown here: Ladybug Ladybug edition.
"Hermetic legacy as I did idyl" is an anagram of "lysergic acid diethylamide".

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