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Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Children
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts The Subversive Folklore of Children Author:Josepha Sherman, T. K. F. Wisskopf A variety of songs, insults, gruesome jokes, and offensive, bawdy rhymes ranging from bodily functions, death, pregnancy, and school to parents, friends, and "The Life and Deaths of Barney". (including some raunchy anatomical ones) invented by or passed around among children. This book may take you back to your childhood, not the... more » childhood that you're going to claim to your kids that you had, but the actual one where you made up nasty names for school food.
The introduction points out that similar songs and sayings are shared by adults and children the world over, although the folklore here is from North America.