During my childhood, I learned two very important lessons. One was about rhymes and the other was about songs. Below are examples of both that I believe my mother, (of all people) taught me. I say, ‘of all people’ because…well, you’ll see what I mean after you read them.

My Lesson In Rhyming:

Bobby Bobby in the tub,
Mom forgot to place the plug,
Oh what sorrow,
Oh what pain,
There goes Bobby,
Down the drain.

My Lesson In Singing: (sung with an upbeat tempo)

I hate Bosco,
Bosco’s bad for me,
Momma put it in my milk,
to try to poison me,

I fooled momma,
I put it in her tea,
Now there’s no more momma,
to try to poison me!

These are just two of my many life lessons that I’ve never forgotten.

I’m just wondering, does anybody else remember either of these rhymes/songs, or was this something my mom made up?

While writing this post, I was amazed to find that the company that makes Bosco Chocolate Syrup is still around. I might have to buy a bottle to try it out.
http://www.boscoworld.com/

A bit of movie trivia. The makeup artist used Bosco Chocolate Syrup as fake blood in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s black and white film Psycho. Check out wikipedia.com for more details on Bosco Chocolate Syrup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Chocolate_Syrup