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GUEST,Robert Dawson	Lyr Req: 'the cow kicked Nellie in the belly in... (24)	RE: Lyr Req: 'the cow kicked Nellie in the belly in...	21 Nov 25
When I was in a Scout troop in the UK (Oxford, 1973) we sang "The cow kicked Nellie in the belly in the barn, The doctor said it wouldn't do her any harm So we _all_ kicked Nellie in the belly in the barn! Second verse, same as the first..." [etc ad inf] Dark, yes. Misogynistic, maybe not: my mother said this was essentially the same version that she learned in the Girl Guides [somewhere in Sussex, I believe] thirty years before! And, curiously, Willard Espy (NW USA) gave a version similar to this ["Didn't do her any good, didn't do her any harm"] in his "Words at Play" [1975] --- specifically as an example of American humor that the English just wouldn't understand. Go figure.

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