Beans, etc

[Mark Mandel]

I've also heard the couplet "...musical fruit/ ... more you toot", but never
IIRC a stringing together of multiple versions.

m a m

On 6/10/07, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 6/8/2007 12:44 AM, GLL wrote:
> >When I head this one in fourth grade (that would have been Andover MA,
> 1971,)
> >the first two lines were:
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> >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."
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> Don't I remember hearing a multi-verse effort, with several (if not
> all) of the versions of the first two lines?
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> Joel
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