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Thread #63874   Message #1041338
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Oct-03 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: In Mobile / In Kansas
Subject: RE: In Mobile
What ever happened to the song about the Irish famine? Oh, the taters---.

From Philippine soldiering days (Ed Cray, The Erotic Muse).

Oh, the women get no tail in Zamboanga (2x)
Oh, the women get no tail,
For their husbands are in jail.
Oh, the women get no tail in Zamboanga.

There's a virgin in Cebu, so they say (2x)
There's a virgin in Cebu
And today she is just two.
There's a virgin in Cebu, so they say.
(maybe related to-
There are virgins in Marseilles, so they say,--- but when Yankee sailors got their pay, there were no virgins anymore, in Marseilles).

Could someone give all the words of the Irish song mentioned in Ed Cray-

How I wish that we were geese, night and morn, night and morn.
How I wish that we were geese, night and morn.
How i wish that we were geese,
And could live and die in peace
'Til the hour of our release, eating corn, eating corn.