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Miss SusieMiss Susie (also Miss Suzy, Miss Lucy, or Miss Mary) is the name of a schoolyard rhyme in which almost each verse leads up to a rude word or profanity, which then appears at the start of the next verse as part of an innocuous word or phrase. One version goes as follows: -
- Miss Susie had a steamboat
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- The steamboat had a bell
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- Miss Susie went to heaven
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- The steamboat went to
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- Hello operator
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- Please give me number nine
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- And if you disconnect me
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- I'll kick you from
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- Behind the refrigerator
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- There was a piece of glass
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- Miss Susie sat upon it
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- And cut her little
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- Ask me no more questions
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- Tell me no more lies
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- The boys are in the bathroom
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- Zipping up their
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- Flies are in the meadow,
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- The bees are in the park
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- Miss Susie and her boyfriend
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- Are kissing in the
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- Dark is like a movie
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- A movie's like a show
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- A show is like a TV screen
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- And that is all
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- I know I know my ma
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- I know I know my pa
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- I know I know my sister
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- with the 80 acre alligator bra.
Allusions The rhyme is sometimes referenced in popular culture: - In the White Stripes song "Hello Operator" (on the album De Stijl): "Hello operator / Can you give me number nine?"
- In The Simpsons: "Bart sold his soul, and that's just swell / Now he's going straight to / Hello operator / give me number nine"
In South Park, Wendy Testaburger has a similar song ("Miss Landers was a help-maid..."). Related Other popular songs and poems employ similar gimmicks for humorous effect: - the folk song "Sweet Violets" ("There once was a farmer who took a young miss / In back of the barn where he gave her a / Lecture...")
* various versions of the poem "Suzanne" ("Suzanne was a lady with plenty of class / Who knocked 'em dead when she wiggled her / Eyes...")
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