Hi, John and Tug the Cox.

Thanks for sharing that information.

Tug the Cox- I was preparing myself for some really offensive words to that Congo song. I relieved that it wasn't as bad as it could have been given those times.

John, I'm assuming that homophonic (is that the right spelling?) means that the words sound the same but have different origins.

Am I in the right seat at the ballpark?

So I gather the etymology of the Italian Goombah isn't really known...and the jury's still out as to whether this Chi-Baba Chi-Baba song is fake Italian or not.

As to that song haven't any connection with the "Ooh she she wa wa" phrase in the (I think African American originated) children's rhyme "Ronald McDonald", I guess that was a really big stretch. It's just that those words/sounds "sounded" alike (so those two are homophonic? Is that how you use that word. I'm respectfully asking because homphonic or homophonic is a new word for me. I tried to look it up online and that's how I got that homophonic spelling. But the wikipedia page was on music and I couldn't find a page with a definition, though I admit I didn't really look hard because I figured I could figure the meaning out myself.

Thanks again.

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