When Susie Was a Baby

DESCRIPTION: As a baby Susie went "goo" or "ooh ahh." As an infant she went "A, B, C." As a teenager she went "kiss, kiss" or "take off my bra." She becomes pregnant, married, mother, granny, dying, skeleton, angel or devil, and finally, nothing.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: marriage sex death pregnancy playparty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 140, "When Susie Was a Baby" (4 texts, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: N.G.N. Kelsey, "When They Were Young Girls" in Folklore, Vol. XCII, No. 1 (1981 (available online by JSTOR)), pp. 106-107 ("When Susie was a baby") (2 texts)
NOTES [14 words]: Kelsey: "My earliest version of 1964 went as follows: When Mary was a baby ...." - BS
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File: OpGa140

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