{"id":163,"date":"2004-01-21T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/01\/21\/france-pants\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T18:25:24","slug":"france-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/01\/21\/france-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"France, Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a270'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a classic rhyme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere&#8217;s a place in France<br \/>\nWhere the naked ladies dance<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a hole in the wall<br \/>\nWhere the men can see it all\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I only call it classic because I read it in a book once, and it gets more Google hits than what I consider in my heart of hearts the <i>real<\/i> version &mdash; the version I learned as a boy in The Ward, Upstate New York.  It&#8217;s sung to a what always struck me as a Mysterious Eastern Melody, which at least one website alleges is called &#8220;The Hoochie Kootchy Dance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOh they don&#8217;t wear pants<br \/>\nOn the other side of France<br \/>\nBut they do wear jeans<br \/>\nJust to cover up their beans\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Children&#8217;s rhymes are fascinatingly mutable.  By far the more common version of this variant appears to have &#8220;the Southern part of of France&#8221; in the second line.  Which makes sense climatologically, I suppose, tho I wouldn&#8217;t know about culturally.<\/p>\n<p>A second couplet &#8220;But they do wear grass \/ Just to cover up their ass&#8221; was known to me and others as well, but considered a bit racy for mixed company.  The internet knows of &#8220;But they do wear fleece \/ to protect them from the beast&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a classic rhyme: There&#8217;s a place in France Where the naked ladies dance There&#8217;s a hole in the wall Where the men can see it all But I only call it classic because I read it in a book once, and it gets more Google hits than what I consider in my heart of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}