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Thread #93148   Message #1789579
Posted By: Azizi
21-Jul-06 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
Subject: RE: Req: Hang Ol Hitler From the Very Highest Bough
Still kinda off-topic:

I'mma blame the Virgo* in me for compelling me to say this about Megan's example of "Miss Suzy Had A Steamboat":

Using kids speak, I think that Megan 'messed up' some of the lines to that rhyme. Why? 'Cause the rhyming is 'messed up' with some of the lines [because of learning the rhyme "wrong" in the first place, or mishearing or misremembering or typos or other folk process reasons.

Here's where I think Megan got it "wrong"*

* based on the rhyming sequence but also on most other examples of this rhyme that I've read [my correction is hypenated:

"flys are in the meadows the bees are in their hives [the park], ms suzy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K "

"Brocolli makes you smell good, carrots help you say [see], bananas make you constipate and water makes you pee".


* "Virgo" is an astrology reference. People who have Virgo placement[s] are said to be obsessive about details. But you knew that, right?

:o)