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Thread #49421   Message #2585229
Posted By: Austin P
09-Mar-09 - 09:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Yeller Gals - Doodle or Do Not?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yeller Gals - Doodle or Do Not?
Gibb Sahib could be right.

There is a tradition in English singing of inserting extra 'iddles' in words a.k.a. Joseph Taylor - 'a soft adenoidal -de- inserted'. See notes here

This could possibly be the origin ...