"Palling Around With Pootwattle" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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".
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>> 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.
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> Well, if we're collecting variants, mine definitely included "toot" rather than "poot", and the second verse went
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> The more you toot,
> The better you feel,
> So eat beans with every meal.
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> But I've also heard something like the below, viz.
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> 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
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>> And there is at least one more version:
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>> Beans, Beans
>> Good for your heart.
>> The more you eat,
>> The more you fart.
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The more you poot
The better you feel
We eat beans
For every meal!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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