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Thread #9245   Message #59725
Posted By: Sandy Paton
22-Feb-99 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: Holy Modal Rounders Roundup
Subject: RE: The Holy Modal Rounders
Rick can answer this, I'm sure: Wasn't it the Rounders that gave us the definitive rendition of "Flop-Eared Mule?" You remember, the one with the classic, if elemental words:

Mule. mule, mule, mule,
Flop-eared, flop-eared, flop-eared mule;
Mule, mule, mule, mule,
Flop-eared, flop-eared mule.


(repeated until you run out of tune)

And when the tune was played again, didn't they sing:

Real world, real world,
Real, real, real world;
Real world, real world,
Real, real world.

Real, real, real, real,
Real, real, real world;
Real, real, real, real,
Real, real world.


(go back to square one)

Someone else can figure out where to put the missing question mark and whether or not to spell the above "reel."

Sandy