Hurrah, Hurrah, My Mother's Gonna Be Hung

DESCRIPTION: "Hurrah, hurrah, my mother's gonna be hung, Hurrah, hurrah, the dirty drunken bum, She was very mean to me when I was very young... they're hangning mother." They will shoot father, they will hurt uncle, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: derivative humorous mother father family death
FOUND IN: US(MA,Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Roger Abrahams, "Ghastly Commands: The Cruel Joke Revisited," Volume 11, Number 4 (Winter 1961) pp. 238-239, "(Hurrah, hurray, my mother's gonna be hung)" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Marching Through Georgia" (tune) and references there
File: MWFB238D

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