ID: 453
Date: 1960s-2002
Title: Build a bonfire
Gender: Female 
Classification: Fun 
Rhyme: 

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,
Put the teachers on the top.
Put the prefects in the middle,
And burn the bleeding lot.

(Auckland, 1960s; NZ, 1960s; New Plymouth, 1970s)

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Build a bonfire,
Build a bonfire,
Put the teacher on the top,
Put the headmaster in the middle,
And burn the bloody lot.

(Rotorua, 2002)

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Background Info: Sung to the tune of "Clementine", an American western folk ballad. (1884)

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Keywords: authority, teachers 
Location: Various NZ 
Group size: 7 
Incidence: 4