nyaa nyaa/ naa naa

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote (echoing Jon Lighter):
>
> In my childhood in Texas, 1950s, the most prevealent form of the taunt was "NAE nae nae NAE nae."

i assume that was metrically

  S | SW | S | S

(with S instead of SW in the first foot)

to the (minor) tune

  3 1-4 3 1

all the reports are of  small variants of one another.

arnold

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