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Thread #37834   Message #1818250
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Aug-06 - 07:31 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: (Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown) What You...
As noted, the chicken verse has nothing to do with the original song.
Words posted by Charley Noble are correct.
The date of copyright on the Sterling-von Tilzer song is 1905, Harry von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., Ny and Chicago.
Copies at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu