See You Later, Alligator

Yesterday Hubby Tony and I attended a performance of the play "Million Dollar Quartet". The jukebox musical (where the songs are well-known popular tunes rather than original) dramatizes a recording session at the Sun Record recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee on December 4, 1956. The session included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis (who was a newcomer at the time). At the end of the show, after the bows, there was a 'encore' concert and each musician performed one complete song. Carl Perkins' was "See You Later Alligator". 

Listening to that made me think of a teacher from the preschool I used to work at who had a wide assortment of rhyming goodbyes. Every day was different, and it was often tied into something the class had talked about earlier. Some of the ones I remember: 

• See you later, Alligator 
• After a while, Crocodile 
• Gotta go, Buffalo 
• See you soon, Racoon (or sometimes Baboon) 
• Gotta Bail, Whale 
• Take care, Polar Bear 
• Peace Out, Trout 
• In a shake, Garter Snake 
• Hit the road, Happy Toad 
• Gotta scat, Cat 
• Can't stay, Blue Jay 
• Bye-bye, Butterfly 
• Toodle-loo, Kangaroo 
• Time to scoot, Little Newt 
• Till then, Penguin 
• Bye now, Brown Cow 
• Adios, Hippos 
• Hasta Mañana, Iguana 
• Out the door, Dinosaur 
• To your house, Quiet Mouse 
• Better skadoodle, Poodle 
• Until then, Hen 
• Adieu, Cockatoo 
• Farewell, Gazelle 
• Hit the Street, Parakeet

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