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Thread #172457   Message #4174154
Posted By: Jack Horntip
08-Jun-23 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Little Miss Brown (Bawdy 1920s Song)
Subject: RE: Origins: Little Miss Brown (Bawdy 1920s Song)
With a bit of stretching, you could sing the chorus section
of that lyric to the tune of "Everybody Works But Father"
-- I'm not sure about the introduction -- but the more
interesting thing is the "finnan haddie" rhyme, which
Cole Porter borrowed, quite possibly from this song:
If I invite
A boy some night
To dine on my fine Finnan haddie,
I just adore
His asking for more,
But my heart belongs to daddy.


The note above is from Elijah W., private correspondence.