"Weddings and Funerals" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground game.
A wedding song we played for you,
The dance you did but scorn.
A woeful dirge we chanted, too,
But then you would not mourn.
The verse is based on the verses and 7:32 9 in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
The exact words of this English nursery rhyme were incorporated as the translation of these verses in the International Standard Version (2008).[1]
In context, the verse was spoken by Jesus as a reproach to those people who rejected both the austere lifestyle and preaching of John the Baptist and his own more accessible ministry.[2]