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there is a traditional american verse, which has several varients,
One dark morning, in the middle of the night
two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back, they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other,
a deaf policeman heard the noise,
and came to the rescue of the two dead boys
if you don't believe my story, ask the blindman,
he saw it all!
for jump rope, there is always
miss mary mack, mack, mack
all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons all down her back, back, back
which i find, i can't remember the rest of.
knocking round my head are lots bits and pieces of many street songs, some of which are american varients of Childs Ballard..
"he played upon a ladle, a ladle, his name was achin drum.."
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I'll raise you, Jackie:
Cinderella, dressed in yella,
Went downstairs to meet her fella,
On the way her panties busted,
How many people were disgusted?
1, 2, 3, 4
cited in Ian Turner's "Cinderella dressed in yella", 2nd ed, [Melbourne] 1978. (A wonderful collection of Australian children's play rhymes.)
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paulb, if that's a children's rhyme, Australian children must be pretty ribald! I would think it was a drinking ditty.
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I'll raise you, Jackie:Paulb, trust you to know something like that! 
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Actually, kids are much more ribald than you think. I remember getting kicked off the 7th grade volleyball team for altering a ditty. Of course my alteration wasn't nearly as ribald as the other kids' that turned me in  . And what about "I see London, I see France"?
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And your alteration, and the original alteration, were ...? (This is a No-Coyness Zone, and I recall you professing that Adventure is your middle name.)
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My alteration of "Clementine" was simply to change '49ers to '69ers. Much more innocent than Jack and Karla's ditties which I have since forgotten.....
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Ah, memories. In my school too, 7th grade was when we discovered the interplay between wordplay and foreplay. I still remember Ms. Logan, age 13, and her choice of a pithy four-letter verb to examplify the the difference between active and passive sentences.
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