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Thread #99588 Message #1986310
Posted By: Stewart
04-Mar-07 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Kugelsville/Kuglesburg Bank (Lu Mitchell)^^^
Subject: ADD: Kuglesburg Bank (author's version)
Okay, I just got an email from Lu Mitchell which may clear up some of the problems with the title:
Hi Stewart: The song "Someone's Grandmother" got a new title later on, although I wrote it in the 60's. It is now called "The Kuglesburg Bank." Here are the lyrics that may differ slightly from the original. Thanks for writing. Lu
Here are the lyrics she sent:
KUGLESBURG BANK (Lu Mitchell)
There's a little old lady who lives up the street Her house is so tidy, her house is so neat You can't imagine, though hard you might try What this little old lady was doing on the sly
CHORUS She's someone's grandmother with hair snowy white But the F.B.I.'s hot on her trail tonight She's down in Brazil with the janitor Hank And the loot from the Kuglesburg National Bank
The Kuglesburg Bank held an audit today And I mean to tell you there was all hell to pay She'd filched all the money in tiny amounts From a hundred and forty-three dormant accounts
Children all loved her and grownups would vie For a taste of her old-fashioned blueberry pie No one suspected, not even Hank She was juggling the books at the Kuglesburg Bank
She gave to the church, no thoughts were higher Her voice like an angel rang out from the choir But from her picture window there glows no more light She's dining in Rio de Janeiro tonight