Bonnie Shaljean, posting the words to "Mary Mack's father's makin' Mary Mack marry me" is definitely not "lowering the tone of the thread".

That's one of the songs I was hoping someone would post.

I've wondered whether that song is related in any way to this children's rhyme:

Miss Mary Mack

Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
Up and down her back back back.
She asked her mother mother mother
For fifty cents cents cents
To see the elephant elephant elephant
Jump the fence fence fence
He jumped so high high high
He touched the sky sky sky
And he never came back back back
Till the fourth of July ly ly
- multiple sources, including my childhood memories of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1950s

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