Nursery Rhymes - Educational or Inane?

Mummy lets me watch this vcd on Nursery Rhymes everytime i have my lunch or dinner. I am usually engrossed in it because i simply cannot believe how inane they can get. Here are a few examples:

Inanity #1

Sing a song of sixpence

Pocket full of rye

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie

When the pie was opened the birds began to sing

Wasnt that a dainty dish to set before the king

Now come on, whoever was the sick person who thought of baking live birds in a pie; feathers, claws and all? And worse, what kind of mutant birds are they, that they can survive the baking process to actually sing when the pie was opened? This is one sadistic king with a taste for out-of-this-world gastronomy!

Inanity #2

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down and broke his crown

And Jill came tumbling after

What violence! I imagine a boy with blood pouring out of a nasty gash on his head screaming his lungs out while his sister lies motionless nearby, her limbs twisted at weird angles. Gross...

Inanity #3

Half a pound of turpenny rice

Half a pound of treacle

That's the way the money goes

Pop goes the weasel

I believe this is a classic tale of how mercenary the world is. Perhaps the author is trying to tell us that money makes the world go round, be it buying necessities like rice or luxuries like treacle. And that ultimately the weasel i.e some money grubbing sleazebag will get his just desserts. Hmmm...profound...but why oh why make us jaded and world weary at such a tender age??

Inanity #4

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

She had so many children she didnt know what to do

She gave them some broth without any bread

And smacked them all soundly and sent them to bed

This screams child abuse! Broth without any bread for poor, little growing children? And why must she smack them all soundly before sending them to bed? The pitiful little creatures...By the way who in the right sense of mind lives in a shoe??!!