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Thread #90418 Message #1724159
Posted By: GUEST,girl
21-Apr-06 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Lady's alligator purse? Her own thread
Subject: RE: Folklore: Lady's alligator purse? Her own thread
I sang this growing up and I was looking for the words, but none of these fit exactly what I remember singing. I think the closest went this way...
Miss lucy had a baby his name was tiny tim she put him in the bath tub to see if he could swim he drank up all the water he ate up all the soap he tried to eat the bathtub but it wouldn't go down his throat
Miss lucy called the doctor the doctor called the nurse the nurse called the lady with the alligator purse
Mumps! said the doctor Measles! said the nurse Nothing! said the lady with the alligator purse
Shots! said the doctor Medicine! said the nurse Pizza! said the lady with the alligator purse
Miss lucy punched the doctor Miss lucy kicked the nurse Miss lucy payed the lady with the alligator purse.
(we didn't sing the in and "out" verses, but that was probably because we used it as a clapping game and not a jump rope game.
The voodoo/medicine woman seems most likely -- but I have no true idea.