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Thread #28149   Message #4217294
Posted By: Jack Horntip
15-Feb-25 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Man with rag in ear
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Man with rag in ear
The following was taught me by a girl acquaintance of about my age
(8-10), so I class it as juvenile:
Fire in the mountain,
snakes in the grass,
The old woman died
with a rag in her ass;
The rag blew oùt
and the wind flew in,
And the old woman
came to life agin.

Grant County, Indiana, Speech and Song, Supplement 2 (Folk Verse)
by W. L. McAtee. 1946. Privately printed.


See here: https://archive.org/details/1945-to-c-1960-w-l-mcatee-and-his-printed-booklets/page/n51/mode/1up?q=%22with+a+rag%22