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  1. P-R-U-N-I-N-G
    First comes the hatchet
    then comes the axe
    then we fall down
    after a couple of whacks.

    H-O-W-L-I-N-G
    First comes moonrise
    then come the change
    then the devouring
    all who’re in range

    This is fun. May post more later.

  2. It doesn’t fit the rhyme scheme at all, but one of the “very alarming” words appears in “Sir Greenbaum’s Madrigal” by Allan Sherman:

    <i>”All day with the slaying and slewing and smiting and smoting like Robin Hood

    <i>Oh, wouldst I could kick the habit and give up smoting for good”</i>

  4. There for all of us to see.

    If you missed their matinee,

    They’ll be streaming it later today.

  6. “Kevin and Amy
    sitting in a tree,
    K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
    First comes love,
    then comes marriage
    then comes baby in a baby carriage…

    – – –

    Then comes the huge fight with Kevin’s mother about the decision not to circumcise the baby. Then comes the visit from the rabbi Kevin’s mother has sent to talk to Kevin and Amy about the importance of circumcision even though Kevin had warned her that if she sent the rabbi he wasn’t going to open the door.”

    More her in this short humorous article by Sam Apple: If the “Sitting in a Tree/K-I-S-S-I-N-G” Song Had Gone on Longer and Been Inspired By My Life – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (mcsweeneys.net)

  7. C-H-O-K-I-N-G

    First comes gasping,

    The come the tics,

    Then comes the maneuver

    Made by Heimlich.

    You’re right, Chipper42. This is fun.

  9. This was one of the songs used to taunt other children who were friends across the sex line (boy and girl who were friends) – and they were generally much too young for dating.  Actual kissing did not have to been observed or done by the couple.

  10. Steven King’s short story “Bad Little Kid” in “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams”.

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