documentate!!

[Jim Parish]

James A. Landau wrote:
> We three kings of Orient are
> Trying to light a rubber cigar
> It was loaded
> It exploded
> Pop
> Bang
>
>
> We two kings of Orient are
> Trying to light a rubber cigar
> It was loaded
> It exploded
> Pop
> Bang
>
>
>
> We one king of Orient are
> Trying to light a rubber cigar
> It was loaded
> It exploded
> Pop
> Bang
> Sigh
>
> Is this a well-known parody, or was it local to my elementary-school  clique?

I heard a version of this in the early '80s from a Michigander. His ended
with the words, "Si-ilent night..."

Jim Parish