The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8943   Message #58106
Posted By: katlaughing
11-Feb-99 - 01:05 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Freedom Isn't Free
Subject: RE: Freedom Isn't Free
Hey, Joe, that was a great listing. I hadn't thought of "So long it's been good to know you" in quite a few years. I grew up hearing mom and dad sing it.

Funny story about it. Dad got caught out at a drilling rig and was late getting in on Christmas Eve, or so the story goes, I wasn't around, yet. Anyway, the only store open (of course it was pre-Walmart/Kmart, etc.) was a little drug store. He stopped in to get a gift for mom. Bought a little round metal music box with a kind of receptacle in the top, I think for powder.

Anyway, she opened it in the morning and was pleasantly surprised until she wound it up and heard it play "So long it's been good to know you"! Needless to say he was in the dog house for quite awhile and never lived it down!

Kat