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Thread #119826   Message #3056159
Posted By: GUEST,Jim O
18-Dec-10 - 01:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
Subject: RE: Origins: Slough-foot Sue? / Slewfoot Sue
My grandmother was born in england in 1918 and move to chicago. My grandmother sang this song to my mother, who was born in 1938: My mother in turn sang the song to my sisters and me. The song went like this:

There once was a girl I knew and her name was slew foot Sue. She was the chief engineer at the shirttail factory down by the riverside view. Her form was all she had. She had a face like a soft shell crab. Every night she use to tussel with the buttons on her bussell boy was she mad.

It was sang quickly.

Oh the memories.