Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:44 PM -0700 6/7/07, GLL wrote:
>  >From message of Thursday 07 June 2007 21:00:
>: Actually you just reminded me--the first line in mine above should
>: also have been "...the musical fruit", not "...the magical fruit".
>: All I can say is that it has been a while.  (The fourth line in our
>: version was indeed as I gave it, though.)
>
>When I head this one in fourth grade (that would have been Andover MA, 1971,)
>the first two lines were:
>
>Beans beans they're good for your heart,
>the more you eat the more you f at rt...
>etc.
>...so let's have beans at every meal."
>
>- GLL
>
>PS: With kids now getting SUSPENDED for play-acting with thumb and forefinger
>representing a pistol, anyone knwo if it's still legal to sing the parody to
>the tune of the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' starting with:
>
>"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school,
>We have tortured every teacher, we have broken every rule..."
>
>All just harmless fun in its day...
>
All I remember is the (much tamer) chorus, which would barely earn a
rap on the knuckles:

Glory, glory, Hallelujah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler.
I bopped (or bonked?) her on the bean
With a rotten tangerine,
etc. etc.

LH

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