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Thread #107723   Message #2367909
Posted By: Goose Gander
17-Jun-08 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Shanghai
Subject: RE: Origins: Shanghai
Some lyrics associated with Turkey in the Straw, posted by Bill in Alabama in this thread, are clearly related.


There was an old doctor; his name was Peck;
Fell in the well and broke his neck.
Served him right, he should have stayed at home,
Tended to the sick, 'n' let the well alone.

I was down in the henhouse on my knees,
Thought I heard a chicken sneeze.
It was only the rooster sayin' his prayers,
A-thankin' God for the hens upstairs.

Way down yonder in Chitlin' Switch,
A bullfrog jumped from ditch to ditch.
Bullfrog jumped in the bottom of the well;
He said, "Oh, Lord, I've jumped in hell."