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Thread #72368   Message #1463115
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
16-Apr-05 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: James M. Carpenter Shanties & Sea Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: James M. Carpenter Shanties & Sea Songs
Interesting that the "Humbug" lines were taken from old minstrel songs.
"Dandy Jim from Caroline" was written in 1843 by Silas S. Steele and J. Richard Myers.

"Oh beauty is but skin deep,
But wid Miss Dinah none compete;
She changed her name from lubly Dine
To Mrs. Dandy Jim of Caroline."

(And there is the more modern relative, "You ain't nothin' but a houn' dog")