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Thread #78038   Message #1401093
Posted By: GUEST
06-Feb-05 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I've Got a Fever In My Bones
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I've Got a Fever In My Bones
I've located a sound clip that adds the missing two lines. The trick is to figure out what they are. Burl in his inimitable cute manner mumbles his way through one line, twinkles his way through the other.

Jim, or (not to pick on you unnecessarily) anyone feel like trying to unsnarl the lyrics? They're at:

http://www.oldies.com/product/view.cfm/id_66622.html

Here is how I (mis)hear them. The first line is reasonably possible, the second line wildly not.

Tattercoat (tattiecoat), petticoat, short to the knee,
Pop! to the junkman (jugman) sooner (sinner) er me!

Which makes zero sense.

Have a go, if you've the time. Maybe somebody can give this a better ear than I can. Thanks,

Bob