Talk:Miss Susie

message: Miss Lucy had a baby,
His name was Tiny Tim Tim Tim
She put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim swim swim
He drank up all the water,
He ate a bar of soap soap soap
He tried to eat the bathtub,
But it wouldn't go down his Throat Throat Throat
Miss Lucy called the doctor,
Miss Lucy called the nurse nurse nurse
Miss Lucy called the lady
With the alligator purse purse purse
Surgery said the doctor,
Shots said the nurse nurse nurse
Pizza said the lady
With the alligator purse purse purse
Miss Lucy hit the doctor
Miss Lucy slapped the Nurse nurse nurse
Miss Lucy paid the lady
With the alligator purse purse purse
We also had a much longer version that we kind of made up as we went. I'm not sure if we heard it somewhere, but one day on the playground we just kept adding our own versus to it. I was only 7 or 8 but it's memorable non-the-less. Each time we got to the third line in the verse we'd act out the words, for example the Wah Wah for the baby we rubbed our eyes and so on and so forth. It's a fun little song to learn when you're young! It's also a good way to kill time. 
Miss Lucy is a baby, a baby, a baby
Miss Lucy is a baby and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! 
Miss Lucy is a toddler, a toddler, a toddler
Miss Lucy is a toddler, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme me a sucker! 
Miss Lucy is a kid, a kid, a kid
Miss Lucy is a kid, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe!
Miss Lucy is a teenager, a teenager, a teenager
Miss Lucy is a teenager, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car!
Miss Lucy is getting married, getting married, getting married
Miss Lucy is getting married, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! (Wedding march like) *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!*
Miss Lucy had a baby, a baby, a baby
Miss Lucy had a baby, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!* Shh! Baby sleeping!
Miss Lucy is a grandmother, a grandmother, a grandmother
Miss Lucy is a grandmother, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!* Shh! Baby sleeping! Would you like a cookie?
Miss Lucy is dead, is dead, is dead
Miss Lucy is dead, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!* Shh! Baby sleeping! Would you like a cookie? Rest in Peace!
Miss Lucy is an angel, an angel, an angel
Miss Lucy is an angel, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!* Shh! Baby sleeping! Would you like a cookie? Rest in Peace! *Hallelujah! Hallelujah!*
Or (alternate ending)
Miss Lucy is the devil, the devil, the devil
Miss Lucy is the devil, and this is how it goes!
Wah Wah! Gimme a sucker! Tie my shoe! Ooh-Ah, where's my bra? Left it in my boyfriends car! *Dun-dun-da da Dun-dun-da da!* Shh! Baby sleeping! Would you like a cookie? Rest in Peace! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
[unsigned]
:[Formatted above for legibility]. This actually is a version of "Miss Lucy had a baby" and not "Miss Susie had a steamboat". — LlywelynII 13:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: When I was in elementary school my best friends and I sang it this way

message: Across several states in the Western US, I've always heard the "family" verse this way:
:I know I know my mother / I know I know my pa / I know I know my sister / With the forty-acre ... 
The version currently on the site seems strange, as "I know my father too" doesn't rhyme with the 4th line of the stanza. The majority of the stanzas have an ABAB rhyme scheme, and I believe this warrants changing the line as a fix rather than an alternate verse. [unsigned]
:I also have my doubts about the historicity of "80 meter bra", specifically the use of metric measure in a traditional English rhyme. Changing it to forty-acre...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.207.12.64 (talk) 19:06, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family verse 

message: The way I heard the line after "Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the dark" was "dark dark darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than that black boy chasing after me." Censorship? 76.232.206.206 (talk) 08:19, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: lol--76.217.89.73 (talk) 02:10, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another verse 

message: So yeah, I'm going to clean up this page according to WP:LYRICS.  As it stands, this article is far from encyclopedic. -Verdatum (talk) 20:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just had to do this again. Probably will be an ongoing project. — LlywelynII 14:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: When I was at school, in elementary school, B.B. Harris Elementary in Duluth Georgia, the girls on the bus sang this song (or a variation thereof) every single day both to and from school. They sat facing each other across the aisles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.104.190.237 (talk) 01:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hell 

message: Every time I've heard this rhyme it opens: "Miss Suzie had a steamboat / This steamboat had a bell / The belle (french for a woman) it (maybe 'she' intead of 'it' sometimes) went to heaven / The steamboat went to... / Hello operator..." Yet this opening (using the play on words of bell/belle in French and English) isn't represented once in all of the 11 versions shown, this is egregiously incorrect.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.2.246 (talk) 02:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not egregiously incorrect, although it does make more sense than the current versions and may preserve an older tradition. We can't include  but if you wanted to talk to a folklorist or have one cite you, you need to provide date and location information. — LlywelynII 02:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miss Suzie had a Steamboat 

message: In Bronner, Simon. American Children’s Folklore, p. 61. August House (Little Rock), 1988. Accessed 12 Jan 2014. this is song #24:
:Lulu had a steamboat
:The steamboat had a bell
:Lulu went to heaven
:The steamboat went to
:Hello operator
:Please give me number nine
:And if you disconnect me 
:I’ll kick you up
:Behind the refrigerator
:There was a piece of glass
:Lulu sat right on it
:And bust her silly
:Ask me no more questions
:And I’ll tell you no more lies
:And that is the story
:Of how Lulu died, died, died, died, died.
Almost identical version here, as well, by another folklorist. It may not be the original—see above for British versions concerning "Chinamen"'s flies—but it's certainly its own variant. I can't include it at the moment, though, since the source information is on page 241 and Google Books is consistently blocking that page. If anyone can get through to it or find a hard copy at their library, kindly include it with the others and the ref note above. — LlywelynII 02:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Miss Lulu had a steamboat

message: I took her out of this article since this was apparently the only place on the internet that even mentioned her. If you can document the supposed English schoolyard rhyme, feel free to include her with the alternate names, but kindly don't restore a mention until then. — LlywelynII 11:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: When Maxie had a baby...

message: Regarding the wiseacre who replaced mention that Fulton invented the steamboat, Google Ngrams and popular culture would like to have a word. Just because some French and British conspiracy theorists believe some people with more money than sense put an engine on a boat didn't make them viable inventions. (More seriously, he didn't "introduce it to the U.S.A." either... but his cultural influence was far more important than the sumpsimus "first commercially-successful application of steam power to water-borne transport" would imply.) — LlywelynII 04:28, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Fulton had a steamboat

message: is a beautiful thing but this is absolutely an  (in the name of quality content) situation. Does the editor really believe that the cited and verifiable sources are lying about their childhoods or locations? Did he notice that he blanked a scholarly paper and left a blog post? Does he not realize that any source for this material is ultimately down to trusting the people who are providing the folklorists with their stories?
We should definitely limit the list of versions to eight or fewer; it's certainly arguable that it'd be a valid or improved compromise to create a new "Miss Susie" wing over at Wikisource and just link over to the repository. There is absolutely no one well-served by blanking everything in the last six decades and (pace the rules) there is no well-founded reason to do so. — LlywelynII 04:08, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding mass blanking of content

message: This is the version that circulated in my elementary school in the Pittsburgh area in the early 1970's:
Charlie had a steamboat,
Steamboat had a bell.
Charlie went to heaven,
Steamboat went to...
Hello Operator,
Give me number nine.
If they do not answer,
Please give me back my dime.
Two old ladies,
Sitting in a ditch.
One said to the other,
"You dirty son of a..."
Beech-Nut chewing gum,
Seven cents a pack.
If you do not like it,
Please ram it up your..
"Ask me no more questions,
"Tell me no more lies."
That's what Charlie said,
The day before he died.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by GnatFriend (talk • contribs) 21:46, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Yet Another Version

message: Full house put miss Susie in there tv show fuller house 71.66.254.245 (talk) 16:07, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miss susie 

message: Lana Del Rey's song 'Lolita' may contain an allusion to this song.  "Kiss me in the D-A-R-K dark tonight..." and "No more skipping rope, skipping heart beats with the boys downtown." 2600:1011:B00B:E90F:89B:2733:D38A:3CC8 (talk) 19:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influence