La Cucaracha--<no quero la comer>

[Donald M Lance]

A cucaracha also is a rattley old car.  Barry has the line the way I've
heard the song.  It's a punny song.
DMLance

> From: RonButters at AOL.COM
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:47:28 EST
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: La Cucaracha--<no quero la comer>
>
> In a message dated 12/10/2001 3:02:25 PM, Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:
>
> << "La cucaracha, la cucaracha
>
> Ya no puede caminar, >>
>
> I was SURE that I heard
>
> << "La cucaracha, la cucaracha
>
> Yo no quero la comer>>
>
> Could this have been a drug-free version for the America of the J.Edgar
> Hoover era?
>