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Thread #119826   Message #2835725
Posted By: GUEST,guest
10-Feb-10 - 10:31 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
Subject: RE: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
My mon just sang this to me a few monthes back! We were remembering songs she sang to me at bathtime when I was a little girl. So heres my version:

I got a gal I do
Her name was Slewfoot Sue
She was chief enginer at the shirt-tail factory
Down by the riverside slough
Her form was all she had
She had a face like a soft shell crab
A stiff upper lip like the rudder of a ship
My god but she was sad!

Oh my gals a kappa
She chews tobacco
Sits on the fireside and spits on the floor
And in my future life she's gonna be my wife
How in the heck did you find that out?
Well she told me so

So we'll build a bamboo bungalow for two
Room enough for the whole fam-damily
Room enough for one, two, three, four
And when we marry happy we'll be
Underneath the shady bamboo b-a-m-boo tree

I love you b-e-s-t best of all the r-e-s-t rest
For l-o-v-e love you all the t-i-m-e time
If you'll be m-i-n-e mine I'll be t-h-i-n-e thine
For I'll l-o-v-e love you all the t-i-m-e time!

My mom heard it from her mom and she heard it from her mom who was born around 1900.
Hope that helps you out.