"please return my dime" looks like a 20th century addition. The insult in the first line was rude but comprehensible in the 1970s in the midwestern US. I suspect todays kids would just find it baffling.
We did a version of the song other comments call "Miss Susie," only we called it "Miss Lucy." Ours didn't mention a dime. "Behind Miss Lucy's icebox" was sometimes "behind the frigerator," though it doesn't scan quite as well.
Miss Lucy had a baby, she called it Tiny Tim She put it in the bathtub, to see it he could swim!
Miss Lucy called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse, The baby called the lady with the alligator purse!
Hello operator, please give me number nine And if you disconnect me then I'll just kick your...
Behind Miss Lucy's icebox, there is a piece of glass Miss Lucy sat upon it and she broke her little...
Ask me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies Miss Lucy told me all of this the day before...
She dyed her hair all purple, she dyed her hair all pink, She dyed her all all polka-dot and flushed it down the sink
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We did a version of the song other comments call "Miss Susie," only we called it "Miss Lucy." Ours didn't mention a dime. "Behind Miss Lucy's icebox" was sometimes "behind the frigerator," though it doesn't scan quite as well.
Miss Lucy had a baby, she called it Tiny Tim
She put it in the bathtub, to see it he could swim!
Miss Lucy called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse,
The baby called the lady with the alligator purse!
Hello operator, please give me number nine
And if you disconnect me then I'll just kick your...
Behind Miss Lucy's icebox, there is a piece of glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it and she broke her little...
Ask me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies
Miss Lucy told me all of this the day before...
She dyed her hair all purple, she dyed her hair all pink,
She dyed her all all polka-dot and flushed it down the sink