mg, I appreciate your concern for children, youth, and adults. And I appreciate your contribution to this thread.

Yet, the problems still remains who gets to decide which songs and rhymes are "filthy, raunchy", how does society go about prohibiting the singing of such material, and what are the immediate consequences to children, youth, and adults who sing such songs or say such rhymes.

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I would much prefer songs and rhymes that aren't as explicit as much of the music is today. For example, here is one of my favorite children's foot stomping cheer (Foot stomping cheers are group/consecutive soloist structured compositions that are chanted by girls around 6-12 years of age while they performed a syncopated, choreographed routine that emphasized the creation of bass sounding foot stomps alternating with [personal] hand claps, and, sometimes, body pats).

Two Way Pass Away

All: Two way pass away. Two way pass away.
Two way pass away. Two way pass away.
Soloist #1: (Well) My name is Tasha.
Group without soloist: Two way pass away.
Soloist #1: And if you don't like it.
Group without soloist: Two way pass away.
Soloist #1: You can kiss what I twist.
And I don't mean my lips.
-African American girls, Braddock, Pennsylvania; collectedin 1985 by Azizi Powell

[The cheer starts from the beginning with the next soloist. That pattern continues until everyone in the group has had one turn as soloist]

Unfortunately, I have not found anyone in that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area or anywhere else thus far who remembers this cheer. I'm curious if anyone in cyberspace knows it.

I've come to think that the "two way pass away" refrain is from the "tu-way-pa-ka-way." chant of the New Orleans, Louisiana area Mardi Gras Indians.