"Palling Around With Pootwattle" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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>> Although I've known _poot_ with this meaning practically from birth,
>> there are some for whom the relevant lexical item is "toot"
>>
>> Beans! Beans!
>> The musical fruit
>> The more you eat
>> The more you _toot_
>>
>>
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> I learned the poem with the final word in this verse as "poot".
>
> And you left of the next verse:
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> The more you poot,
> The better you feel.
> So have some beans
> At every meal.
>
>

Well, if we're collecting variants, mine definitely included "toot" rather than "poot", and the second verse went

The more you toot,
The better you feel,
So eat beans with every meal.

But I've also heard something like the below, viz.

Beans, beans
Good for the heart.
The more you eat,
The more you fart.
The more you fart,
The better you feel.
So eat beans with every meal.

LH

> And there is at least one more version:
>
> Beans, Beans
> Good for your heart.
> The more you eat,
> The more you fart.
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