Children's chant

[Mullins, Bill]

Another kid's song, to Col Bogey's March:

Comet # will make your face turn green
Comet # smells like Gasoline
Comet # will make you vomit
So get some Comet
And Vomit
Today

(Comet is the kitchen cleaning powder)


-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Laurence Horn
Sent: Mon 1/31/2005 10:04 PM
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Subject: Re: Children's chant


and then there was the related (via Col. Bogey rather than Disney, of
course) verse, discussed on the list some years ago,

Hitler # had only one, left ball,
Goering #  had two but they were small.
Himmler #  had something similar,
And Goebbals
Had no balls
At all.

(# indicates caesura; much discussion of first line, and variations,
accessible from archives)

Larry Horn