Mary Had a Little Watch

DESCRIPTION: "Mary (Patty, etc.) had a little watch, She swallowed it one day, So now she's taking castor oil To pass the time away. But as the time went on and on, The watch refused to pass, So if you want to know the time, Just look up Mary's ass."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 ("Immortalia")
KEYWORDS: derivative humorous
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, George W. Boswell, "Humor from the Kentucky Hills," Vol. XVII, No. 2 (Nov 1969), p. 75, "Little Patty Had a Watch" (1 text, with only the first half of the Immortalia version quoted in the description)
Roud #7622
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (form)
NOTES [31 words]: Roud lumps this with "Mary Had a Little Lamb," from which it is clearly derived. But I would clearly distinguish them -- despite the "unprintable" second half, this is genuinely clever. - RBW
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File: NJF171MH

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