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Thread #50412 Message #1051792
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Nov-03 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: today's the day we give babies away
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: today's the day we give babies away
Today is the day they give babies away, with half a pound of tea,
You open the lid and out jumps a kid with half a pound of tea.
In notes on the Ragtime hit, "Yankee Bird," 1910, the piece is a march and wo-step based on "The gal I Left Behind Me," and "This is the Day They Give Babies Away."
http://www-kmadg.svf.stuba.sk/jmkollar/midi/primeline/midnot_s.htm# and scroll way down.