Part 1: Children's rhymes and game songs -- The world as we see it -- Marching songs and threats -- Choosing sides -- Hand clap -- Jump rope -- Ball games -- Run and chase games -- Circle games -- Wine rhymes -- Vulgar rhymes -- Part 2: Rapping, signifying, boasts and threats -- Part 3: Dozens -- General: "The condition your dear family's in" -- Poverty -- Ugliness -- Stupidity -- Promiscuity -- Part 4: Toasts -- The signifying monkey -- Stagger lee -- The titanic -- Dolemite -- Death row -- Honky-tonk bud -- The free snorter -- Pete Revere -- Black jack tucker -- Part 5: Invective -- Part 6: Preacher tales and parodies -- Part 7: Jokes -- Part 8: Jokes on children -- Part 9: Miscellaneous.
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