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Thread #90284   Message #1711353
Posted By: Little Robyn
05-Apr-06 - 03:56 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ask Me No Questions rhymes
Subject: RE: Origins: Ask Me Know Questions rhymes
We had a slightly different one when I was a kid but I can only remember a little bit. I'm not sure if there any more to it.

The higher up the mountain, the greener grows the grass
Down came a billy goat, sliding on his...
Ask me no questions I'll tell you no lies,
I saw a (politically incorrect word for an Asian gentleman) doing up his...
Flies are a nuisance, bugs are worse,
That is the end of my little verse.

My Mum used to know it too!
Azizi, I think Willie the sheepdog was sitting on the grass.
Robyn