1. I know that "Grenadier" nursery rhyme sans the "Knock-knock" and answer, as "Who goes there?" A Grenadier. "What d'you want?" A glass of beer. "Where's your money?" I've forgot. "Get you gone - you drunken sot!" (This was from a book, not folk transmission.) 2. I know one of the others cited above, again sans any knock-knock and not as a song (Calcutta, 1963, schoolfriend Dilip Palit): What's your name? Pudding Tame. Where d'you live/ Up the lane. What's your number? Twenty-two cumber [?] What d'you eat? Friday meat. What d'you drink? Black ink. Amazing, the fruits of colonialism. Sanjay Sircar
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