Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy,
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack,
Fast Asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I,
For if I do
He's sure to cry.
Perspective 1
Little Boy Blue. Why was the little boy blue? Could it be that he had down-syndrome and was in congestive heart failure? Maybe a lack of enough oxygenated red blood cells circulating the body caused little boy to be blue.
Little Boy Blue was told to come blow his horn. Why would they have to tell him to blow his horn? I suspect he was too week from his compromised condition to be able to blow his horn.
It is quite possible that the little boy was visiting his grandparents on the farm and they were...