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Thread #156653 Message #4110676
Posted By: GUEST,Karen Impola
19-Jun-21 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: A song dilemma (frozen logger cleanup for school)
Subject: RE: A song dilemma (frozen logger cleanup for school)
FWIW, the version I heard as a child (sung by Oscar Brand, perhaps? circa late 50's/early 60's) had the line as "from off his leather hide".
And YouTube has a version by Jimmie Rodgers (not the singing brakeman, this guy was recording in 1958), who says "thorny hide".
So, the line's been changed before.