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Thread #35318   Message #481062
Posted By: Jacob B
11-Jun-01 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Would Not Be Here (John Hartford poem)
Subject: RE: John Hartford poem; serendipity in life
He wouldn't have caught
Except for the kid
All contagious with fever
Who sat in his lap
Was the son of the man
Who sold him insurance
He met long ago at a smoker in college ...


(These additional lines are from the version John Hartford recorded on the Gentle On My Mind album.)