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Take a look at my entry in Book Recomendation thread. A new and very good book on children and violence, including ideas and actions from children themselves on what to do about it.
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Good God folks. We never had those violented up songs when we were young. The closest we ever got was the end of the year ditty...
no more pencils, no more books
no more teachers' dirty looks.
I wonder if it is the same in the other provinces? Bean, seian? Maybe that`s why everybody calls Canada the peacekeepers. Well, that and the fact that all of our armed forces share one gun.
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The end of school verses used to be heard in Massachusetts.
But how about some more parodies. Unfortunately most of the ones I remember are vile. Also vile, but less so is a parody of "My bonnie lies over the ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea...."
Parody= "My bonnie has tuberculosis
My bonnie has only one lung.....(and gets vile)
Surely some of us ought be able to remember others.
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In an other thread-- there is discussion of the words of the Lunch time song--
Great big gobs of mutilated monkey meat.. (and lots of other appetizing foods ) But its a bit of YART.
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Parody= "My bonnie has tuberculosis
My bonnie has only one lung.....(and gets vile)
Surely some of us ought be able to remember others.
I heard Jaspr Carrott do a couple. One, of "Yesterday"
"Leprosy,
I'm not half the man I used to be"
For another, he did not even have to change the words. He simply began by saying that this was being sung by a victim of chronic acne
"They call me mellow yellow,
Quite rightly"
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I heard the 'Yesterday' one, but in school. And verse two went: "Syphillis Now it even hurts to take a p*** It all started with a simple kiss Oh why did I Get Syphillis" Ah well... school-days eh? (Now if only I can remember our Hinglish NCC camp-songs...  )
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and the Yuletide greeting "A Merry Syphillis and a Happy Gonorrhoea!"
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There's a wonderful Australian collection of children's rhymes and parodies called "Cinderella dressed in yella", published in 1969. Try your local libraries! In the meantime, here's some nursery rhymes:
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sheep are in the meadow,
The cows are in the corn.
Where's that boy who should be guarding the sheep?
Under the haystack with Little Bo-Peep.
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
She looks for them sedately.
I hope she finds them very soon,
Because we've had no lamb chops lately.
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat did a piddle
Right in the middle of the floor.
The little dog laughed
To see such fun,
And the cat did a little bit more.
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider and sat down beside her
And Little Miss Muffet said, "Rack off, hairy legs".
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
-- Up, stupid!
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her daughter a dress,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And so was her daughter I guess.
and, for an encore:
My old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustman's hat.
Farted through the keyhole
And paralysed the cat.
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Mary had a little lamb, the Doctor was surprised!
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was black as soot,
And everywhere that lamb did go, its sooty foot it put.
I recently mentioned "Mots D'Heure; Gousse, Rames" et al in the Favourite Book thread. I don't know if they count as parodies or not. If not, what? For those that don't know this delightful (pers.op.) book it consists of poems ostensibly in French, framed in old woodcuts and with erudite footnotes. However, when you read them out loud they change into English Nursery Rhymes (Mother Goose Rhymes). For example one starts:
Un petit d'un petit
S'ettonne aux Halles
with a foot note for the first line of "The inevitable result of a child marriage."
[Just realised I didn't do a YART search - will now anyway]
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Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
They sure did something else up there
Coz they came back with a daughter
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