MaryLyon wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> My mother has been chanting the following little ditty to her new
> granddaughter, and it has stuck in my head as well. She claims she has
> known it since childhood, but has no idea where it came from. She
> asked a friend of hers who is about the same age (65), and her friend
> knew it, too (though not the last line), and was equally mystified as
> to its origins. Here it is:
>
> Rooty toot toot
> We are the girls from the institute
> We don't smoke and we don't chew
> And we don't go with the boys who do
> Our class won a Bible!
>
> OK, it's not Sondheim (and it's not even a show tune!), but I figured
> if anyone could identify it, it would be someone on RATM!
>
> Cheers!
> Amy :)
I don't have a definitive answer, but I've heard it before myself as
well, and I got curious.
There's more here:
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/queries/lostquotes/?id=191
Buried in the following article is an excerpt with a citation that
suggests it's from, or at least in, a book called "On My Own Two Feet"
by Beverly Cleary:
http://www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/honors_2001_fall/honors_papers_2000/cohen_bcleary.html
That's not a book I ever recall reading myself, and I certainly don't
own a copy of it, so I can't confirm that that's where it's from, but
that's where the trail leads.
--
Stephen
She irons her jeans. She's evil. She has to be destroyed.
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