ID: 996
Date: 1950s - 1990s
Title: Higher up the mountain
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Fun 
Rhyme: 

Higher up the mountain,
Greener grows the grass,
There I met a billy goat,
Who wouldn't let me pass.

(Auckland, 1950s)

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The higher up the mountain,
The greener grows the grass,
I saw a little billy goat,
Sliding on his overcoat.

(Auckland, 1970s)

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The higher up the mountain,
The greener grows the grass,
Down came a billy goat,
Sliding on his ..
Ask me no questions,
Tell no lies.
Down came a billy goat, 
Sliding on his overcoat.

(Christchurch, 1960s)

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Higher up the mountain,
Green grows the grass,
Down came a billy goat,
Sliding on his .
Ask me no questions,
Tell no lies.
I saw two policemen doing up their..
Flies are a nuisance, mosquitoes are worse,
That is the end of my silly little verse.

(Blenheim, 1980s; Dunedin, 1990s)

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Background Info: Compare to rhymes in this collection beginning:
Ask me no questions..
Suzy had a steamboat..
Mary had a canary..
Country girls are pretty..
Can can girls..

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Factor, 1988:163 refers to these rhymes as 'avoidance' rhymes.

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Keywords: predictive, bawdy 
Location: Various NZ 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 5