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Robert B. Waltz Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store (13) RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store 10 May 25


GUEST.Paul wrote: As a very young child my Mom would sing this to me. Here are the lyrics that she would sing. "Isaac had a candy store business was so poor he took a match and gave a scratch no more candy store"

Hm. Is it coincidence that:
1. Isaac Asimov's parents ran a candy store
2. They were very poor
3. They were Jewish

Their candy store did not burn down -- but IIRC Judah Asimov (Isaac's father) retired to Florida. (I won't swear to that last point, which is why I didn't number it.)


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