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Thread #90929   Message #1727479
Posted By: Ferrara
25-Apr-06 - 08:59 PM
Thread Name: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Subject: RE: Songs & Commentary about Hair
Stephen Foster included lines about hair in a number of songs.

"I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,"

"Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair,
Her cheek on the pillow pressed,
Sweetly she sleep, while her Saxon hair
Like sunlight, streams o'er her breast."

And in Uncle Ned:

"There was an old d---y and his name was Uncle Ned,
He's dead long, long ago,
He had no wool on the top of his head,
In the place where the wool ought to grow.

Then lay down the shovel and the hoe,
Hang up the fiddle and the bow,
There's no more work for poor old Ned,
He's gone where the good d-----s go."

Please note, I don't sing this song!!! I am very uncomfortable about posting it. But if I understand correctly, it fits with the theme of the thread and is the kind of example Azizi is looking for.