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Sandy Paton	Lyr Req: Roaches and Bedbugs? (56* d)	RE: Roaches and Bedbugs?	01 Jun 00
Bedbugs and cooties verse was sung as part of "Portland County Jail" by the fellow I learned it from in the Kansas wheat fields, about 1945. He sang it thusly: I woke up the other night And there upon the wall, The bedbugs and the cooties Were having a game of ball. The score was one to nothing, The cooties were ahead, When a bedbug hit a homerun And knocked me out of bed. I recall seeing a very similar verse in Gardner & Chickering's Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan, collected from a young lad in a youth detention facility. Great place to swap songs! Sandy

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