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Thread #28149   Message #3203467
Posted By: GUEST,JDoug 7 Aug 2011
07-Aug-11 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Man with rag in ear
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with rag in ear
Here is how my Uncle Gene Callais, a wheat farmer in Kansas, said it in the 1940's:

Snakes in the whiskey, rats in the beer,
Old man died with a rag in his ear.
Rag came out, wind blew in,
Old man came to life agin.