A line that puzzled me as reported in a few of the above posts: And off to lieber August, September, October and Ve are off to lieber August, September, October and Octelebra August, September, October and We were off to leiber august september october and maybe another variant or so. I'm firmly of the opinion that the beginning of that line was originally "Ach, du lieber August" (Or "Augustine"), which was folk processed by folks who didn't understand German or the well-known song that starts that way, which garbled the German words, and maybe somebody thereafter garbled THOSE folk-processed words, and so forth. Dave Oesterreich
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