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Thread #100431 Message #2017896
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Apr-07 - 09:07 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Bucketmouth McGinty (Eugene Gunter)
Subject: RE: history ofbucket mouth mcginty
When I Googled for "Bucket Mouth McGinty", Google asked me: "Did you mean 'Bucketmouth McGinty'?" Who woulda guessed?
That led me to this quote, from a story titled "A Colorful Career: Eugene Gunter, Veteran Lawyer and Prosecutor, Looks Back on the Good (and Some Bad) Times," in the Winchester [Virginia] Star.Gunter now lives alone with his "puppy-dog," McGinty, named after an old Irish drunken steamer captain — Bucketmouth McGinty — whom Gunter wrote a drinking song about when he was in college.
That would have been at the University of Virginia, 1951-58, according to the same article.
Allan, if you have any more lyrics, please post them!