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Thread #80440 Message #1664885
Posted By: GUEST,Art Thieme
08-Feb-06 - 10:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jerry Go and Oil That Car
Subject: RE: Origins: Jerry Go and Oil That Car
Charlie,
It possibly (probably?) was Mac McClintock himself. That's the one I heard on folk radio in the late 1950s & into the '60s.
Tar is a term for >I>sailor. No recism involved I do not think.