I found this thread earlier today and I reposted the un-corrected version of Leslie N's post on this thread. That thread provides examples of & commentary about the children's rhyme/song "We are the ___/we wear our hair in curls."

I also quoted from Charley Noble's previous post about that song which is found on this thread.

I have subsequently posted a link in that children's rhyme thread to Charley's corrections of Leslie N's post. I also have posted a comment that emphasizes the 1952 date of the first publication of that Fireside book. I had incorrectly given that date as 1975 which is the date of a later edition of that book. That date matters because of other comments I made in that post...

Also, for what it's worth, not all of the examples of that children's rhyme are bawdy. All of the examples that I've heard or read thus far of that children's rhyme/song use the "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay" tune (though the one example to date that I found on YouTube has a faster tempo than the one I think is commonly used for that song).

At any rate, I want to publicly 'say', thanks Charley!