ID: 689
Date: 1950s
Title: Dearly beloved brethren
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Fun 
Rhyme: 

Dearly beloved brethren, is it not a sin?
To peel a potato and throw away the skin?
The skin feeds the pigs, the pigs feed you,
Dearly beloved brethren, is this not quite true?

(NZ ex UK, 1950s)

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Background Info: Found in connection with the finger play rhyme, 
"Here is the church, here is the steeple" (Abrahams, 1980:35).

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Keywords: logic 
Location: NZ (ex UK) 
Group size: 1 
Incidence: 1