This didn't really belong in Childrens' rhyming games, so I put it here. My Dad's aunt Phyllis (grew up in the early 1930's) told me they used to sing this one. She said a neighbor girl sang it all the time. The neighbors had 9 children, and were very poor. I don't know if it's true or just child's imagination, but either way I find it vaguely creepy: Momma had a baby, we call her Norma Jean We put her in the wash-tub to see if she'd come clean. She drank up all the water, she ate up all the soap She tried to eat the wash-tub but it won't go down her throat. She ate up all the crackers, She ate up all the meat She tried to eat the table but it was too big to eat. They wrapped her in a blanket, and left her in the rain, Along came the sisters and they put 'er on the train. Anyone have any others? Chaz
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