Friday, January 10, 2014

Made you look,

made you look,
made you buy a penny book

I made you look,
you dirty crook,
you stole your mother's pocket book.

You turned it in,
you turned it out,
you turned it in to sauerkraut.


Made you look, 
made you stare,
made you lose your underwear.



Iona and Peter Opie's Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford University Press, 1959)