A wallflower is also a female who stands against the wall at parties while she waits-usually in vain-for a male to ask her to dance.

I hear tell that nowadays ladies often approach men at dances to ask them to dance. Times change..

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I suppose that the only connections between the Water Wallflower game/song and the Brickwall Waterfall handclap rhyme is the fact that both are children's recreational compositions, and both have the words 'wall' and 'word' in their titles.

But think how much the role of females has changed from the women who is resigned to her fate in the Wallflower game song to the confrontational, aggressive, self-assured female in the Brick Wall Water Fall rhyme.

That is not to say that I totally approve of the in-your-face taunting street smart attitude. But I like that attitude better than either the fatalistic mindset or the "I'm better than the other women here" feeling that I get from that Wallflower song...

No disrespect intended to anyone who grew up with that song-or that mindset.

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Fwiw {and it probably isn't worth much}, I wonder if the "Brick" part of the name "Brickwall Waterfall" comes from the Rick James R&B song "She's A Brick House".

Naw...

But maybe...???

I guess we'll never know.