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Thread #29647   Message #377544
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
19-Jan-01 - 02:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: While the organ peeled potatoes...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: While the organ peeled potatoes...
(Another bootleg from John in Kansas - on LiK's connection). The lyric from Stewart is very close to what someone wrote in my mother's high school autograph book - Haven KS class of 1934, so it has apparently been around for a while. The similarity to other inscriptions there suggest that it may have been commonly recited or sung. Some of the other similar ones appeared on old Edison (cylinder) recordings that my grandpa still had when I was a gradeschool kid. The recordings appeared to come mostly from about the T Roosevelt era.