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Thread #124302 Message #2745468
Posted By: GUEST,iancarterb
13-Oct-09 - 11:44 PM
Thread Name: Songs to the John Brown/Battle Hymn tune
Subject: RE: Songs to the John·Brown/Battle·Hymn tune
Mary Ann McCarthy she went out to dig some clams (3x)
But she didn't get a solitary one.
All that Mary got was oysters (3x)
But she didn't get a solitary clam.
This is known to my whole extended ten first-cousin family, 1940ish, and my parents and their inlaws, all born before or jsut after 1910, and I think it appears in the Best's SONG FEST as well.
Carter B