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Thread #2795   Message #1846508
Posted By: Azizi
29-Sep-06 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, I Bit the Teacher's Toe!
Subject: RE: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, I Bit the Teacher's Toe!
Hello, Guest Amber.

There are numerous versions of Miss Susie Had A Steamboat.
Btw, the name given for the woman in these profanity avoidance rhymes is sometimes Ms. Susie; Miss Suzie, Miss Lucy, Miss Molly and probably more. In these rhymes Miss Susie {or Miss, Ms, Mrs somebody} had a steamboat, or a tug boat or {as you wrote} a sail boat.

Usually Miss Susie is recited by girls who are doing handclaps.

Here are two versions of that rhyme from href="http://octopuses.chaoticinsanity.com">http://octopuses.chaoticinsanity.com :

Miss Susie had a tug boat, her tugboat had a bell, Miss Susie went to heaven her tug boat went to HELL...o operator please give me number nine, and if you disconnect me I'll cut of you're behind the 'fridgerator there lay a piece of glass Miss Susie sat upon it and cut her little ASS...k me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies the boys are in the bathroom zipping up their flies are in the meadow, the bees are in the park, Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark dark dark. The dark is like the movies, the movies' like the show, the show is like tv and that is all I know know know, I know I know my ma I know I know my pa, I know I know my sister with the 49'rs bra. The bra is for the boobies, the boobies for the milk, the milk is for the babies with diapers made of silk.
-Kristeena at June 7, 2003

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Miss Susie had a steamboat,
the steamboat had a bell ding ding,
the steamboat went to heaven,
Miss susie went to
hello operator,
give me number nine,
and if you disconnect me,
I'll chop off your
behind the refrigerator
there lay a piece of glass
Miss susie sat upong it
and broke her little
ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping up their
flies are in the city
bees are in the park
Miss susie and her boyfriend
are kissing in the
d-a-r-k
d-a-r-k
d-a-r-k
dark dark dark
the dark is like the movies,
the movies like the show
the show is like the tv set
and that is all i know know know
i know i know my ma
i know i know my pa
i know i know my sister
with the sixty dollar, sixty dollar sixty dollar bra bra bra
my mother is godzilla
my father is king kong
my brother is the stupid one
who made up this song
my mother gave me a nickel
my father gave me a dime
my sister gave me a boyfriend
his name was frankenstein
he made me do the dishes
he made me wash the floors
he made me clean his underweard
then i kicked him out the door
i kicked him over london
i kicked him over france
i kicked him over hollywood and he lost his underpants
-Erin, April 19, 2004

There are a number of Miss Susie Had A Steamboat examples on that website's Schoolyard games thread.

Also, if you're interested, check out my website http://www.cocojams.com for more examples & comments about Miss Susie Had A Steamboat and other handclap rhymes, cheerleader cheers, and more.

Best wishes,

Azizi