soul food?

[phthalombrage]

I was thinking today, doing dishes, about mean schoolkid songs I learned on the bus.

I googled one, and apparently the ending I know is non-standard. Some of the other songs I learned I know with oral tradition-type deviations, but this alternate ending makes me think.

Joy to the world, Barney's dead.
We barbecued his head!
What happened to the body?
We flushed it down the potty.
What happened to the rest?
We fed it to the guest.
He said, he said it was the best!

(Apparently most people just repeat "and 'round and 'round it went" instead of the last three lines transcribed above.)
But yeah, what else is there to eat, other than head and body?

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And then there was Beowulf.

[conqueror49worm.livejournal.com]

The reach of oral traditions is fascinating. I learned the same juvenile song in Michigan that you did in Florida. Cycling like school-bus wheels.