ID: 698
Date: 1990
Title: Can can girls
Gender: Female 
Classification: Bawdy 
Rhyme: 

Can, can, girls are pretty,
They sure know how to dance,
They lift their legs into the air,
Until you see their fuzz..y
Wuzzy was a bear, sitting on a rock,
Along came a bumble bee, and stung off his cock..
Tails ginger ale, fifty cents a glass,
If you don't like it shove it up you’re a..
Ask me no questions tell me no lies,
I saw a policeman doing up his flies.
Are a nuisance, bugs are worse,
This is the end of my silly verse.

(Christchurch, 1990)

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Background Info: Compare with rhymes beginning:

Ask me no questions..
Suzy had a steamboat..
Higher up the mountain..
Mary had a canary..
Country girls are pretty..

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

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From www.warrenfahey.com (accessed 15 January, 2007) Australian Folklore website:

We are the can can girls,
We wear our hair in curls,
We don't smoke or drink,
Or that's what our parents think,
We don't play with toys,
We just kiss with boys,
We are the can can girls,
Of 2005.

(Sydney, Australia, 2005)

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Keywords: predictive, teenage culture 
Location: Christchurch 
Group size: 1 
Incidence: 1