Off main topic (but apropos a couple posts above), "Wild Colonial Boy" also works to the tune of "Ghost Riders In the Sky"...with a chorus of "Too ra li oh, too ra li ay, the wild colonial boy". Another short song made up of song titles was written by Jerry Bryant, "A Shanty In Old Shanty Town": Only a shanty in old shanty town Away you Santee and blow the man down. Where haul away, Joe goes down to Hilo And Stormalong's drinkin' with Reuben Ranzo. Shallow Brown, Hieland Laddie, and Jack's in kahoots, And so we will pay Paddy Doyle for his boots. And with Boney we'll roll that old woodpile on down To a shanty in old shanty town. Linn
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