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Thread #2427   Message #3351905
Posted By: GUEST
17-May-12 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: It's the Same Old Shillelagh
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: It's the Same Old Shillelagh
When I was a kid in the late '50's / early '60's, my father used to play a record of this song, sung by Morton Downey. His version had a verse about some kind of brawl, with words saying " . . . poor Culligan was in the chair when he threw it through the wall ... ". I distinctly remember laughing about the mental picture those words created as Morton Downey sang them, each time my Dad played the record. -- All my Dad's old records, (and pretty well everything else we owned for that matter), were destroyed when our house burned to the ground on Easter weekend in 1965, so I hadn't heard the song since then, -- until tonight, (May 17, 2012), when I heard just a brief exerpt of it on another website, a couple of minutes ago. The exerpt didn't play long enough to get to that verse that I was hoping to finally hear again. Isn't it funny that in spite of the passage of all these years, -- in my mind,-- I can still hear Morton's voice singing those humerous words. I hadn't thought of the song in probably many years, (perhaps even decades), until my oldest daughter got me started looking up songs on YouTube, and then I got hooked. I began to think of songs I hadn't heard in years. Eventually, this one came to mind. Oddly, none of the lyrics I've seen on-line for this song include that particular verse, --- (which had me beginning to wonder if my memory about that verse had originated in the Twilight Zone rather than in reality, but after having my memory of his voice confirmed by hearing that brief exerpt of him singing an earlier part in the song, I'm sure that my memory (of him singing about Culligan being in the chair when it went through the wall), is accurate. Doug F. ( df421@telus.net ).