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What are the chords for the song used in Something You Can Do with Your Finger? Or any other accompaniment for this song?

Family verse

Across several states in the Western US, I've always heard the "family" verse this way:

I know I know my mother / I know I know my pa / I know I know my sister / With the forty-acre ...

The version currently on the site seems strange, as "I know my father too" doesn't rhyme with the 4th line of the stanza. The majority of the stanzas have an ABAB rhyme scheme, and I believe this warrants changing the line as a fix rather than an alternate verse.

- I also have my doubts about the historicity of "80 meter bra", specifically the use of metric measure in a traditional English rhyme. Changing it to forty-acre... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.207.12.64 (talk) 19:06, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

= Another verse

The way I heard the line after "Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the dark" was "dark dark darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than that black boy chasing after me." Censorship? 76.232.206.206 (talk) 08:19, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lol--76.217.89.73 (talk) 02:10, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

So yeah, I'm going to clean up this page according to WP:LYRICS. As it stands, this article is far from encyclopedic. -Verdatum (talk) 20:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What exact tune is this song sung to?

I can play the tune, and I know that the notes are. Does the song actually have a name? From whence did the tune come? JD (talk) 04:55, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--- I think it came from the Miss Lucy Long song. It was a popular minstrel song in the late 1850s. Tetris11 22:22, 19 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.48.149 (talk) [reply]

Hell

When I was at school, in elementary school, B.B. Harris Elementary in Duluth Georgia, the girls on the bus sang this song (or a variation thereof) every single day both to and from school. They sat facing each other across the aisles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.104.190.237 (talk) 01:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regional?

I grew up with version 5 (Okemos, MI, USA). Most of the people I meet are from MI, and know version 1, although it ends after the "D-A-R-K" line.

I wonder: Is there a project to collect data on who knows what version, so we can see what the geographic trends are? Gnebulon (talk) 23:58, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]