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I may dig out my granny's autograph book, tomorrow.

One I remember from an autograph book....

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YYUB
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YY4 me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLRz2dLCAI

Do boys dream about
Living in a constant ecstasy
Do boys dream about
The same kind of things
That young girls dream

What do the boys dream
What do the boys all dream of

Do boys dream about
Life in space and hallucination
Do boys dream about
The killing of a friend
The investigation

What do the boys dream
What do the boys all dream of

Do boys dream about
The great escape of the mythical monsters
Do boys dream about
The big romance
With the girl of their dreams

What do the boys dream
What do the boys all dream of

Do the boys dream about
The wonders of the world and all in colour
Do boys dream about
The big romance
With the girl of their dreams

What do the boys dream
What do the boys all dream of

J.A.

From Hampshire Granny's book:
My love is like a cabbage
and that I cut in two
The leaves I give to others
The heart I give to you

(written by her future husband) :-)

Oh I remember that cabbage one Maggie so that's lived through a few decades :-)

This one, written by my g grandmother in 1925 confused me:

In fir tar is,
In oak none is,
In mud eel is,
In clay none is.

I 'Googled' it - "when said quickly, appears to be in Latin. The joke may be traced back 500 years to a medical manuscript of Henry VI’s time"

It also has two extra lines at the end, online:

Goat eat ivy,
Mare eat oats.

Another one - from a friend:

When a gangster got wed in Chicago last week
That he did the thing, well, it seems plain
For his bride's wedding dress was made of shot silk
While a pal of his held up her train


From grandad's landlady:

Who took me from my warm, warm cot
and set me on a cold cold pot
Whether I wanted to or not
My mother!


From 1943:

We came home singing all the way
Our songs of right good cheer
And that's the way we're going to sing
When final victory's here.

One of many from late Mum in Law.Father in Laws were not polite enough for on here

Higher up the mountain
greener grows the grass
I saw a Nanny goat sitting on it's

Ask no questions. tell no lies
I saw a monkey doing up it's

Flies are a nuisance bugs are worse
this is the end of a Chinese verse

LaGooner, there is one in particular, written in both of my gran's autograph books, and my mum's, that I couldn't put on here - not so much rude - just plain racist (though not considered so, at the time) :-S

It's similar in rhythm to this autograph, from 1925

God made the little winkles
and isn't it a sin
to pick the little beggars out
ans eat them with a pin

A flea met a fly in a flue.
Said the fly let us flee
Said the flea let us fly
So the flea and the the fly they flew

If a fellow met a fellow in a field of fiches would a fellow tell a fellow if a fellow itches