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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:30:54 +1100, Peter Moylan posted:

>On 21/03/08 13:47, Maria C. wrote:
>> Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>>> Back in the 1960s, that third line was "And into Mary's bread and
>>> jam". Anyway, for a followup you can have this one:
>>>
>>> Mary had a little lamb
>>> And it was always gruntin'
>>> She tied it to a five-bar gate
>>> And kicked its little c*** in.
>>>
>>> (MAD magazine, IIRC)\
>>
>> MAD Magazine? Isn't that doubtful? Or has the magazine gotten more
>> risque over the years?
>>
>Well, I did add "IIRC". Now I'm starting to suspect that I didn't RC.
>Another possibility is a book put out by the Monty Python team.

That sounds more likely.

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WCdnE

> Mary had a little lamb
> And it was always gruntin'
> She tied it to a five-bar gate
> And kicked its little c*** in.

> (MAD magazine, IIRC)

As other people have pointed out, that seems to have been printed
first in one of the Monty Python books in the early 70s. I remember
it from primary school about ten years before that; it's folklore.

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