The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5819   Message #3064188
Posted By: GUEST,Francis X Murphy
30-Dec-10 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: Origins: King of the Cannibal Islands
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: King of the Cannibal Islands
My mother (now 87) has sung the song "We'll build a bungalow" to the babies in our very large extended family going back to the 1930's. I think she learned it from my grand-father.
I was whistling the part about "the dusty maid" tonight and was struck by the question, "Is this a patronizing epithet?"