Thanks, Chico for refreshing this thread.

I had forgotten that I had started this thread on the very same day that I became a Mudcat member. That was one of the best decisions I made!

Chico, for the record, I also notice that you started another thread on a different version of this song HERE

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One interesting feature of "Raise A Rukus Tonight", is its use of a technique that I call "profanity avoidance". The word 'hell' is never said but is suggested by the pattern used in the lines:
       De kite string broke; dem N__gs fell;
       {Raise a rucus to-night)
       Wha dem N__gs go, I hain't gwineter tell.
       Raise a rucus to-night)

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A similar pattern of profanity advoidance is used in the widely known children's rhyme, "Miss Susie had a Steamboat" {or "Miss Lucy", "Mis Lula", "Miss Molly", "Miss Mary" Had A Tugboat}. In those rhymes the last word of each line is an unspoken 'dirty' word and the same or similar word is used in a'clean' way {usually} as the first word in the next sentence. For example, see this version from Akiba {September 13, 1997}posted in a classic Mudcat thread Naughty Kids Greatest Hits

"Another version of the steamboat/bell song:
Lulu had a steamboat; steamboat had a bell;
Lulu went to heaven; steamboat went to...
Hello, operator; give me number nine;
If you don't I'll kick you, right in the ...
Behind the 'frigerator, Lulu broke a glass;
Then she slipped upon it and broke her big,fat ...
Ask me no questions; I'll tell you no lies;
If you do , I'll punch you right between the eyes!"

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Here's another profanity avoidance rhyme from that same Mudcat thread posted by Laoise on September 15, 1997 :

"Mary had a little lamb, she thought it rather silly,
She threw it up into the air and caught it by it's...
Willie was a sheep dog sitting on the ground
Along came a bee and stung him on his....
Ask no questions tell no lies,
Ever see a p'liceman doing up his....
Flies are a nuisance, bugs are worse
And this is the end of my silly little verse."

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BTW, in that same thread Barry Finn {September 14, 1997} wrote that
"These steamboat versions seem to run close to the Bang Bang Lulu genere (she was famous in the US Navy). See Bang Bang Lulu in the DT "

There is also a Naughty Kids Greatest Hits II


Enjoy!

Azizi