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Thread #45184   Message #2877381
Posted By: GUEST
01-Apr-10 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: All Go Hungry Hash House (Dave Macon)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: All Go Hungry Hash House (Dave Macon)
There's a part in the book "By the Shores of Silver Lake" that is on of the "Little House on the Prairie" series where the family travels to a city. When they get off the train they pass a man singing a song to the tune of one Ma's favorite hymns, "There is a Happy Land."

But instead of the familiar words of the hymn, the man is singing:

There is a boarding house
Not far away
Where they have steak and eggs
Three times a day

Boy, how those boarders yell
When they hear that dinner bell
Wow, how those egss do smell
Three times a day!

Ma looks so displeased at the man singing a song, in front of her & her daughters no less, that the man stops singing until they pass.

I have to admit, I laughed but I know Ma wouldn't have approved.

= )