Ebbie, you're right, is is absurd. If your mother lived to a ripe old age, no one would have to shake her hand for you. Both her hands would probably be shaking quite a bit on their own. No help needed.


And what's a Hansom Cabbing boy doing on a ship? They don't even go out on the lakes in Central park....


I always thought it was:

"The Peony known as wildflower
Busted down its pot
And its roots began to rot...."


And let me get this straight....Clementine drove the ducklings to the water and they drove her to the drink?


One of the biggest absurdities to me, of course, was Roy Acuff's garbling of the words to "Wabash Cannonball" and The Carter Family's garbling of "Wildwood Flower" still being accepted as gospel after all these years.




I'm SO confused.....