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Thread #99010   Message #1967935
Posted By: Azizi
14-Feb-07 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Songs we were made to sing in school...
Subject: RE: BS: Songs we were made to sing in school...
Oh gee willikers! {that's the extent of my cursing}

I do know the difference between it's and its. I learned it in school after singing the good morning song.

Since I'm here, let me share another song. I remember being in one of the younger grades {maybe 2nd or 3rd grade} and there was this outdoor event for which each grade had to perform a song for the entire school, plus parents. I remember sitting high up in the bleachers listening to the performance. One grade of "little kids kids" sang this song:

I know a little pussy
Her coat is silver grey
She lives in the meadow
not very far away
Although she is a pussy
she'll never be a cat
for she's a pussy willow.
Now what do you think of that?
Meow meow meow!
Scat!

-snip-

It was many years before I figured out why some big kids sniggered at the word "pussy".

I also remember that some other big kids sang "you big rat!" at the end of the song. I think they added that for its rhyming effect-notice I wrote "its" and not "it's" :o)