Miss Suzy
Had A Steamboat
(source: there is an almost identical
song called "Miss Lucy" in "The World's Best Funny Songs",
Esther J. Nelson, 1988; another similar song called "Miss Helen Had A
Steamboat" can be found in "The Worm Song and Other Tasty Tunes, Janet
Wilson, 1993.)
(a schoolyard clapping game... I can't even begin to describe the
actions involved!)
Version One:
- Miss Suzy had a steamboat
- The steamboat had a bell (ding, ding)
- Miss Suzy went to heaven
- And the steamboat went to...
Hello, operator,
- Please give me number 9
- And if you disconnect me
- I will chop off your...
Behind the 'frigerator (or yellow curtain)
- There was a piece of glass
- Miss Suzy sat upon it
- And cut her little...
Ask me no more questions
- Tell me no more lies
- The boys are in the bathroom
- Zipping down their...
Flies are in the meadow
- And bees are in the park
- All the little boys and girls
- Are kissing in the dark, dark, dark!
The dark is like the movies
- The movie's like a show
- The show is like the TV.,
- And that is all I know
I know, I know my mother
- I know, I know my pa
- I know, I know my sister
- With the forty acre bra
Version Two:
- Miss Suzy had a baby
- She named him Tiny Tim
- She put him in the bathtub
- To see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
- He ate up all the soap
- He tried to eat the bathtub
- But it wouldn't go down his throat
He floated up the river
- He floated down the lake
- And now Miss Suzy's baby
- Has got a bellyache
Miss Suzy called the doctor
- The doctor called the nurse
- The nurse called the lady
- With the alligator purse
"Measles," said the doctor
- "Mumps," said the nurse
- "A virus," said the lady
- With the alligator purse
"Penicillin," said the doctor
- "Bed rest," said the nurse
- "Pizza," said the lady
- With the alligator purse
"He'll live," said the doctor
- "He's all right," said the nurse
- "I'm leaving," said the lady
- With the alligator purse
"I don't want the doctor,
- I don't want the nurse,
- I want the lady
- With the alligator purse"
Miss Suzy gave me peaches,
- And then she gave me pears,
- And then she gave me fifty cents
- And kicked me up the stairs
My mother was born in England,
- My father was born in France,
- And I was born in diapers
- Because I didn't have any pants!