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Thread #115155 Message #2462358
Posted By: Azizi
10-Oct-08 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Songs About Money
Subject: RE: Songs About Money
In my opinion, children's rhymes are worthy additions to any 'category song' thread.
Here are two more children's rhymes that mention money:
Policeman, Policeman
Do your duty.
Here comes Debby
An American beauty,
She can wiggle
She can wobble
She can do the split.
But I betcha five dollars
She can't do this.
Lady on one foot, one foot, one foot
Turn all around, around, around.
Lady on two foot, two foot, two foot
Touch the ground, the ground, the ground.
Lady on three foot, three foot, three foot
Say your prayers, your prayers, your prayers.
Lady on four foot, four foot, four foot
Jump right out.
-Azizi Powell, remembrance of childhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey, mid 1950s.
**
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 fifteen 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
* "Fifty" cents seems to be most often said nowadays