Children's chant/and yet another

[Jonathan Lighter]

More "Col. Bogey," pretty foolish though.  NYC, late '60s:

Bullshit !  It makes your grass grow green !
Bullshit !  It makes your windows clean !
Bullshit !  Or is it Horseshit ?
Or is it Bullshit and Horseshit combiiiiiiiined ?????!!!!!!!

The mind that created this one is deserving of study (same locale and milieu):

Who's that knocking at my door?
Who's that knocking at my door?
Who's that knocking at my door?
Said the fair young maiden.

It's me, it's me, from over the sea,
Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.

(Similarly:)  If you love me, say "It's I"...
Said the fair young maiden.

Aye aye, it's me, Aye aye, it's me,
Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor.

Persons knowing saltier versions are invited to contact me so that posterity may not be misled.

JL
"Martin, Katherine" <katherine.martin at OUP.COM> wrote:
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>From Vermont in the 1980s, two more variations:

Herman # look what you've done to me
Herman # I think it's pregnancy
Herman # you put your sperm in
and now it's Herman, and squirmin' and me
* * *
Glory, glory Halleluiah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler
I hit her in the butt
With a rotten coconut.
She ain't gonna sit no more.


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