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Thread #106813   Message #2462423
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-Oct-08 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tapioca (from 'Siege at Red River')
Subject: RE: Tapioca - lyrics and origin
There are sound and movie files here (click), but I can't get it to play on Windows Media Player. Works in Quicktime.

TAPIOCA (songwriter unknown)

Tapioca, tapioca, all she ever learned to cook was tapioca,
For my dinner, for my supper, tapioca I ate 'til I couldn't see straight.

Oh, workin' on the railroad, twenty cents a day
Johnnie pick a tune on your banjo      [ plunk, plunk ]
Listen to the wheels go clackin' on their way
Tapioca, tapioca, tapioca they seem to say.


from recording by Milburn Stone on the 1954 movie Siege at Red River

-Joe-