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Thread #11873   Message #3448441
Posted By: GUEST,Geoff
07-Dec-12 - 01:32 AM
Thread Name: Aunty Mary Had a Canary - where?
Subject: RE: Aunty Mary Had a Canary - where?
Hi,

I am from australia and the version I know is similar to Brookes of August 2004. I learnt this as a child in the 1960's from my grandmother who was born in Australia in the 1890's:

Ask your mum for sixpence to see the big giraffe
Pimples on his whiskers and pimples on his aarr....
....auntie Mary had a canary thought it was a duck
took it behind the kitchen door and taught it how to f-f-f.....
....fried eggs for dinner, fried eggs for tea
the more you eat, the more you drink, the more you want to ppee...
....peter had a boat, the boat begaan to rock
along came a shark and bit off his c-c-c...
cock - a - doodle do that's all i have for you