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Miss Susie
"Miss Susie had a steamboat", also known as "Hello Operator",〔Mayfield, Josh. "
(Hello Operator )" at ''Inky's Linkies''. 3 Apr 2004. Accessed 13 Jan 2014.〕 "Miss Suzy", and many other names, is the name of an American schoolyard rhyme in which each verse leads up to a rude word or profanity which is revealed in the next verse as part of an innocuous word or phrase. Originally used as a jump-rope rhyme, it is now more often sung alone or as part of a clapping game.〔Powell, Azizi. "(Similarities & Differences between 'Bang Bang Lulu' & 'Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat' )" at ''Pancocojams''. 16 Oct 2013. Accessed 13 Jan 2014.〕 Hand signs sometimes accompany the song, such as pulling on the bell in the first verse or making a phone gesture in the second.
This song is sometimes combined or confused with "Miss Lucy had a baby", which is sung to the same tune and also served as a jump-rope song. That song developed from verses of much older (and cruder) songs which were most commonly known as "Bang Bang Rosie" in Britain, "Bang Away Lulu" in Appalachia,〔Cray, Ed. ''The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs'' 2nd ed., (p. 173 ff. ) UIP (Champaign), 1999. Accessed 13 Jan 2014.〕 and "My Lula Gal" in the West.〔Logsdon, Guy. ''The Whorehouse Bells Are Ringing and Other Songs Cowboys Sing'', (pp. 154 ff. ) 1995 reprint of UIP (Champaign), 1989. Accessed 13 Jan 2014. (NB: Logsdon's versions are set to the separate tune of the bluegrass traditional "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms".)〕 The variants including a woman with an alligator purse urging the baby's mother to vote have been seen as a reference to Susan B. Anthony, an American suffragette,〔Hollihan, Kerrie. ''Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote'', (p. 78 ). Chicago Review Press (Chicago), 2012. Accessed 13 Jan 2014.〕 and may be responsible for the steamboat owner's most common name today.
== Structure ==
The rhyme is arranged in quatrains, with an A-B-C-B rhyme scheme. The rhyme is organized by its meter, a sprung rhythm in trimeter.〔Henninger, Jessie. "(Miss Susie Had a Steamboat: I. Structure )" at ''The Raveled Sleeve''. 29 Nov 2008. Accessed 13 Jan 2014.〕 Accentual verse (including sprung rhythm) is a common form in English folk verse, including nursery rhymes and jump-rope rhymes. The rhyme approaches taboo words, only to cut them off and modify them with an enjambment. It shares much of the same melody as the 1937 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" used by Warner Bros. as the theme to their ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons.〔Smith, Ronald. ''Comedy on Record: the Complete Critical Discography'', p. 634. Garland Publishing, 1988.〕
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