Little Ricky red lad.

[tun]

Little Ricky red lad
red lad sparrow
plough my field
stalk my yarrow
jolly Jacob green boy
green boy barrow
load my onions
soak my marrow
big boy yellow man
yellow man harrow
here is my coffin
bring your arrow.

[patrickoday]

Little Ricky red lad
red lad sparrow
plough my field
stalk my yarrow
jolly Jacob green boy
green boy barrow
load my onions
soak my marrow
big boy yellow man
yellow man harrow
here is my coffin
bring your arrow.

This flows great! I'm curious why the yellow man is the one suited to fire the arrow. Also, the juxtaposition of the yellow character being a boy and a man helps to shine the light of significance on him. What does the yellow man represent, and why does he torture you?

[tun]

Thanks. Straining myself to find any symbolic or allegorical dimension to this today - I think Yellow here can stand for the Sun - and the 'Arrow' would be the 'arrow of time' that the Sun can represent. The coffin would then here be presented in such a way as to represent fearlessness - 'I am ready' (for death), etc.