Just for the academic record, when I was a kid in south-western Ontario in the 1960s, 'Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes' was always sung to the 'London Bridge is Falling Down' melody. As a kid, I was a little creeped out by the carving of the turtle-dove on her breast, but at some point I realized(?) that the 'breast' in question would have been a feature of memorial statuary. One post mentioned Rudy Vallee rhyming 'you' with the French pronunciation of 'adieu', for comic effect. This was done in all earnestness in Sound of Music, as I recall: 'And so we bid adieu,/To yieu and yieu and yieu' ... !
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