[Denver, Colorado, early 1980's, from my music teacher. We used the same clapping pattern described below with "Miss Suzy". I ended up teaching the elephant/door verse to two little girls who were waiting for their dog to be seen at the vet clinic where I used to work here in Houston; they knew the other two verses already but not the door one.]

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.

She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifteen cents, cents, cents,
To watch the elephant ...
Jump over the fence...

He jumped so high...
He touched the sky...
and didn't come back...
'til the fourth of July, -ly, -ly.

She asked her mother ...
for five cents more...
to watch the elephant...
slide down the door...

he slid so low...
he stubbed his toe...
and that's the end...
of the elephant show...

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[From Denver, Colorado, mid-1980's. I learned them from a white kid but the neighborhood was about 80% black and I don't know where he learned them]

. . . met her at the bank with a Sherman army tank . . .

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We did "Miss Suzy" as a clapping rhyme, minus the underpants part. Two girls sat across from each other and clapped as fast as they could without messing up: Hands together, right hands together across, hands together, left hands together across, hands together, both hands together across, hands together, repeat.

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On top of Old Smoky, all covered in blood,
I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug.

I went to her funeral, I went to her grave,
Some people threw flowers, I threw a grenade.

I looked in her coffin, she wasn't quite dead,
So I took a bazooka and blew off her head.

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Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to school we go,
With hand grenades and razor blades, Hi-ho, hi-ho.

Hi-ho, hi-ho, I bit the teacher's toe,
She bit me back, that dirty rat, hi-ho, hi-ho.

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[From Houston, Texas, early 1990's. Very white kids]

Sherman, what have you done to me?
Sherman, oh, Sherman, can't you see--
Sherman, you put your sperm in,
And now it's Sherman and Herman and me.

(to that tune they always use in movies about summer camp. I don't know what it's called, but kids are always whistling it.)

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