Q: ""My mother, married a kangaroo"?

[Joel S. Berson]

Does anyone recall lyrics "set" to some musical piece -- perhaps a
Sousa march -- of "My mother, married a kangaroo; Wasn't that a,
curious thing to do" and perhaps ending with "to marry a kang, to
marry a kang, to marry a kangaroo"?  Popular among impertinent New
York City teenagers in the early 1950s.

No, I'm not thinking of "Be kind to your web-footed friends, Cause a
duck might be somebody's mother" and "Stars and Stripes Forever",
unless my verse was additional to or in place of the duck.

Joel

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