»Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies« is an old saying, but more than that:
Much of the structure of the More Shopping lyrics is based upon an old schoolyard song, in which the last word of a sentence would share sounds with the first words in the next.
Here is one traditional version:
Rule Brittania
Three monkeys on a stick
One fell off and paralyzed his
Dick was a sailor
His Christian-name was Jim
His mother took him to the pool
To see if he could swim
He sank to the bottom
He rose to the top
His mother got excited
And pulled him by the
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If you don't like it
Shove it up your
Ask no questions
Tell no lies
I saw a policeman
Pulling up his
Flies are a nuisance
Bees are worse
I saw a doctor
Getting on a
Nurse my baby
Nurse it well
This is the end of my story
And all I have to tell