A bit late to correct a mondegreen 9 years later! but the quote back there from '4-Loom Weaver' rendered as "I have woven myself too far in" is actually "I have woven myself to t'far end": this should be got right, as it is a technical term, meaning to the far end of the loom so that he can weave no further.

I always love "She sez that we must marry and her daddy sez the same. I would make a run for Frisco But her daddy's got dead aim".


But among the greatest of creators of such memorable lines were not just 'the folk' or folkies, but such brilliant 30s-40s lyrists as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Al Dubin — just think of all the memorable lines from the standards of that great period... "When Broadway Babies say goodnight It's early in the morning"; "Oh no they can't take that away from me"; "People say in Boston even beans do it" ... [That's enough brilliant lines fro the 30s - ed]