From another Mudcat thread on children's rhymes I found out about a website called Wheee Blog! that is dedicated to schoolyard games. That Wheee! Blog thread has a lot of versions of "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat". Here's one that I hadn't seen before:

Miss Susie:
Miss Susie had a steamboat.
The steamboat had a bell,
ding-ding,
Miss Susie went to heaven,
her steamboat went to hell..
..o operator. Please give me number nine.
And if you disconnect me,
I'll kick your fat behind..
..The fridgerator,
there was a piece of glass.
Miss Susie fell upon it,
And popped her big fat ass..
..k me no more questions.
Tell me no more lies,
The boys are in the bathroom,
zipping up their flies..
..are in the meadow.
Bees are in the park.
The boys and girls are kissing,
Way past after dark,
..er than the ocean,
deeper than the sea,
darker than the underwear
my sister puts on me.
-posted by "Liz again." at April 12, 2005 04:02 PM {re-posted with
permission of members of Wheee! Blog}."

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Click here for
Wheee! Blog Schoolyard Games

Incidently, several times Halifax, one of the members of Wheee! Blog, has asked that posters include such demographic information such when and where the rhymes posted were performed. However, it's rare that any poster there does so.

Posters to this Mudcat thread are doing much better than Wheee! Blog posters in including such information. But it's probably unfair to compare ourself with Wheee! Blog since Mudcat is a folk based discussion forum that likely has a considerably older age of posters than those who post on Wheee Blog's schoolyard games thread.

Anyway, thanks for remembering to include demographic information with your rhymes!

Ms Azizi