Rhymes of crimes

Nursery rhymes have remained the same ever since I learnt them 30 years ago. In India, this is probably one of the many things inherited from the British education system. Over the past few years, I wondered if some of these rhymes propogated cruelty to animals/people. Some examples:

• "Piggy on the Railway line" - there's an incident of a pig being run over by a train and then the driver shows his apathy towards the incident by saying "I don't care"
  
• "Ding Dong Bell" - some guy called "Little Tommy Thin" tries to drown a cat by dropping it into a well
  
• "Goosey Goosey Gander" - a goose catches an old man and throws him down the stairs ("Caught him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs"
  
• "Sing a song of six pence" - some 24 blackbirds get baked in a pie ("Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie")

There might be many others as well. Some other material that could be a cause for objection include calling black people as "niggers" and ridicule of physically-challenged human beings.

Reading of the things that get banned or changed in the United States of America, these rhymes would certainly have been "banned" from the kids' books. Wonder why no one has thought of it in India until now.

SPCA and / or Maneka Gandhi, please take note.