"I must, I must, I must increase my bust" (1970)

[Towse]

We -- San Francisco Bay area c. 1965+ -- used "the chant" while doing
arm fling exercises.


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:46:38 -0500, Mark A. Mandel
<mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I mentioned this to my wife last night. She turned to me with an astonished
> look and asked disapprovingly, "Who did YOU ever learn that from?!"
>
> Anyway... the version she knew was:
>
> I must
> I must
> I must develop a bust.
> I better
> I better
> So I can wear a sweater.
>
> This would have been in the 1960s, and she associates it with genuine
> exercises which would've, at least, developed upper body strength.
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
>