One of the best-known Mother Goose rhymes: Peter can't keep his wife, so he puts her in a pumpkin shell and keeps her there instead. The image is pure nonsense rather than anything to take literally, and its odd logic has kept children reciting it for generations.
A bouncy spoken chant.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition