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As corrected by Bill, with thanks
One of the many rounds my mother taught us as children was this [Elizabethan] one:
Adam catch'd Eve by the furbelow (2x)
And that's the oldest catch I know (3x)
Oh ho! Did he so?
Did he so, did he so? (3x)
Recently my sister and I realized it could be rendered this way:
Adam catch'd Eve by the fur below
And that's the oldest catch I know
Oh, ho! Did he sew?
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