The 1948 book A Rocket in My Pocket: The Rhymes and Chants of Young Americans includes a funny rhyme about a donkey who mistakes a zebra for a felonious mule. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Felonious Mule”
Here’s another little rhyme from A Rocket in My Pocket, the rhymes and chants of young Americans.
It goes, when the donkey saw the zebra, he began to twitch his tail.
Well, I never said the donkey.
There’s a mule that’s been to jail.
Nice.
The zebra is a mule that’s been to jail.
Wonderful.
I wonder what it did.
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