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Thread #96789 Message #1895670
Posted By: Scrump
29-Nov-06 - 12:01 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Old Sow/Old Molly Hare
Subject: RE: Lyr origin: The Old Sow/Old Molly Hare
I've looked at the DT versions and they seem to be slightly different from the ones I've heard. I notice that one version is called SUZANNA'S A FUNICLE MAN. I don't know what "Funicle" means, but I've seen it somewhere else as "funnyful" or "funniful" (I assumed it meant "funny" or "full of fun"). The other two versions in DT are THE OLD SOW SONG and THE OLD SOW (2).
The Yetties recorded a version that was nearest to the last one above, on their album "In Concert" (1979) called "Suzannah's A Funny Old Sow", but it had the chorus from the first one. The only other version I've heard was by Rudy Vallee "The Old Sow Song" - I think hsi was similar to the 2nd version above.
None of this helps provide the ifno you wanted, sorry! But maybe it will help someone else provide it, you never know...