Anyone mentioned "Found a Peanut" yet?

I don't recall ever being led in its singing by a teacher, but I remember some teachers allowing students to pick and lead songs of their own choice, and it was a favorite. It is totally abhorrent, sadistic, and without redeeming social value. In other words, it's just the sort of song kids love.

To the tune of "Clementine":

Found a peanut, found a peanut
Found a peanut just now
I just now found a peanut,
Found a peanut, just now.

It was rotten, it was rotten... (continues as above)

Ate it anyway, ate it anyway...


I'll spare you any further lyrics, but after eating the rotten peanut, the kid got sick, called the doctor, died, and went to heaven.

Well, you'd think it would end there, wouldn't you? Wrong! The song can be drug out until eternity by making up one's own verses. And, since the made up verses in question usually come from the minds of eight-year-olds, there's no requirement that they make a lot of sense. Wanna have the kid be reborn, make his little sister eat a worm and succumb to irreversible diarrhea? No problem!

I remember one of my grade-school teachers banning the song from being sung in her class.