Without Googling (or using another search tool) can you...

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…add the next line of these “familiar” things?

(Sort of a response/examination of the ideas in Is there any cultural reference that every American knows?)

  1. The gingham dog and the calico cat…
  2. There is a house in New Orleans…
  3. Love means never having to say…
  4. All around the mulberry bush…
  5. I found my thrill…

Do feel free to add your own “tests” of the basic theory…

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  1. Rings a bell for me as a childhood rhyme or something, but I can’t finish the sentence.
  2. No idea.
    3-5. Sure, I got these.
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I only very vaguely know the first one, and couldn’t come up with the key word in the next line. The other four I know very well.

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All but #1.

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[quote=“Zeldar, post:1, topic:593200”]

…add the next line of these “familiar” things?

  1. The gingham dog and the calico cat…

Side by side on the window sill sat

  1. There is a house in New Orleans…

They call the Rising Sun

  1. Love means never having to say…

you’re sorry.

  1. All around the mulberry bush…

The monkey chased the weasel

  1. I found my thrill…

On Blueberry Hill

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  1. no
  2. yes
  3. yes
  4. no
  5. yes
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All but 1.

And I still don’t know what it’s from.

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1. The gingham dog and the calico cat…no idea
2. There is a house in New Orleans…no idea
3. Love means never having to say…you’re sorry
4. All around the mulberry bush…is this supposed to be “pop, goes the weasel”? Because the version I learned does not have that immediately following “all around the mulberry bush” though I can’t remember what did.
5. I found my thrill…on Strawberry Hill.

ETA: Strawberry? Really? Where did I come up with that?

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Ditto. FTR…

2 …they call the Rising Sun.
3 …you’re sorry.
4 …the monkey chased the weasel.
5 …on Blueberry Hill.

I am…AMAZED that more people seem to know the first than the second, actually.

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So Google it! :smiley:

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  1. No
  2. Yes
  3. Yes, though I know it through pop culture references and not the original source.
  4. Yes
  5. Yes
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All but #1. Even after reading others’ spoilers I have no idea what this is.

  1. I know the answer! The answer lies within the hearts of all mankind! The answer is _____ ?
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All but 1, but it rings a vague bell.

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[ol]
[li]No (but the given phrase is somewhat familiar)[/li]
[li]Yes[/li]
[li]Yes[/li]
[li]No (but I know the British version of Pop Goes the Weasel, which does not have this line, as well as Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, which I think must be a different song)[/li]
[li]Yes[/li][/ol]

(But I am not an American.)

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I did! Right after I posted. I’ve absolutely never heard it before.

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  1. No clue.
  2. They call the rising sun?
  3. I’m sorry
  4. The monkey chased the weasel
  5. On blueberry hill

My additions:

  1. You put your left foot in…
  2. There’s a place in France…
  3. …a bullfrog jumped from bank to bank.
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I knew all of them; I had to memorize #1 once. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known #1.

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  1. There is a house in New Orleans…
    they call the Rising Sun.

  2. Love means never having to say…
    you’re sorry.

  3. All around the mulberry bush…
    the monkey chased the weasel.

  4. I found my thrill…
    on Blueberry Hill.

  1. The gingham dog and the calico cat…
    Sounds familiar, but I can’t say I know this one.
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All but 1.

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No idea

  1. Never heard it.
  1. you put your left foot out…
  2. where the ladies wear no pants*

*this came up at work the other day. Everyone agrees on that 2nd line, but things start to vary after that.