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Thread #19269   Message #2020978
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
09-Apr-07 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Mitchell Trio Songbook?
Subject: RE: Mitchell Trio Song Book?
Joe Offer wrote (many posts back, on 16 March 2000), "but now I've been punished for gloating, by needlessly typing the exact same thing Barbara typed," but in fact there was at least one major difference between what he typed and what she typed, namely, he typed,

An Irish Song

where she typed,

An Irish Song (Rickety Tickety Tin)

Rickety Tickety Tin is what many people call a certain song by Tom Lehrer, a song which, so far as I know, the Trio never recorded. Joe had it right.

But I think there are a couple of mistakes in Alma Mater (Joe, again, 29 April 2003). I always heard the second line as, where we can seek the truth. And in the third line, surely stride is a typo for strife.

(And I'm sure no one will confuse Alma Mater with Alma Mahler, so I won't even mention it. D'oh!)