On 8/13/07 7:06 PM, Malvary J Cole wrote:
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
Mom used to sing
Oh, ASK your mother for fifty cents
to see the elephant climb the fence
the higher he
Joy Malvary,
This is getting really intriguing. For while I have never heard of
either of your rhymes, the Australian version is obviously somehow a
derivation. Ours went:-
Ask your mother for sixpence
To see the big giraffe
With pimples on his whiskers,
And pimples on his sK
