Re: a question about an animal joke


Jeffrey Turner wrote:
Raymond S. Wise wrote:


[...]


There is a whole category of joke songs which consist of lines which
appear to be dirty but are immediately followed by a line which allows
the previous one to be reinterpreted as not dirty after all. I don't
remember having encountered such a song before I spent my junior year
abroad in Nice, where one of my (American) roommates taught me a couple
of them, one of which follows:


There once was a farmer who lived by a crick,
And all the day long he would play with his
Flowers in springtime as in days of yore.
He knew a young lady, and she was a
Decent young lady who lay on the grass,
And when she rolled over she showed him her
Feathers all over. She looked like a duck.
She said she was learning a new way to
Teach the young children to sew and to knit.
The boys in the barnyard are shoveling ***...Uh, sand.

Miss Lucy had a steam boat
The steamboat had a bell, [ding ding]
Miss Lucy went to heaven and the
Steamboat went to...
Hello operator
Please give me number nine
And if you disconnect me
I will chop off your...
Behind the 'fridgerator[...]


That was the song of this type which Lisa sang in an episode of *The
Simpsons* which caused Homer to cringe everytime he thought Lisa was
saying something rude. While trying to confirm that via Google and the
Google Groups archive I came across a thread in rec.arts.sf.written
which contained a version of the other song which my roommate taught
me, at

<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/cde1a820afd9585b/ffd66021758f6e2a#ffd66021758f6e2a>

or

<http://tinyurl.com/edxc2>

The version I was taught was:


There was a young miss
Who went out to piiii
-ck some flowers.

She went out to the grass.
It came up to her aaaa
-nkle tops.

She went out to the coop
And let out a pooo
-r old chicken.

She cut out its heart.
It let out a farrrr
away cry-EEEE.


Note that, as was the case with a song mentioned by Bob Cunninham in
another post, this depends upon the "a" of "ankle" rhyming with the "a"
of "ass."


--
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com

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