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semi-submersible	Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies (60* d)	RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies	24 Nov 09
The "revolting" line above, "Coughed up her bottle of rye" sounds suspiciously close to the bit my mother sang me about "Corked up her bottle of dye." Oral transmission/folk process, I guess. After the ball was over Maggie took out her glass eye, Put her false teeth in some water, Corked up her bottle of dye, Stood her false leg in a corner, Hung up her wig on the wall; Then what was left went to slumber After the ball. (Could've been "all the rest" instead of "what was left." I'm not sure.) I like Barbara's mother's version best in this thread.

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