# Song/Poem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-poem/573246>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-poem/573246 "2011-03-02T18:48:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Beckman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Jack\_Beckman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Beckman)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-poem/573246/1 "2011-03-02T18:48:36Z")

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Time when I was a boy there was a tune grownups used to sing that began:  
Out in the garden picking peas,  
thought I heard a chicken sneeze.  
I suspect the remainder of it was somewhat obsene because that’s all I ever heard anyone sing. Any clues?

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**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-poem/573246/2 "2011-03-02T19:00:58Z")

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First Google hit returns [this](http://ldswritersblogck.blogspot.com/2009/09/out-in-garden.html). Terrifying for the chicken, perhaps, but hardly obscene.