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Thread #45811   Message #677837
Posted By: GUEST,adavis@truman.edu
27-Mar-02 - 11:01 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat
Subject: Miss Lucy had a steamboat
Help, please -- I'm playing name that tune, and I've got all kinds of lyrics: "Miss Lucy had a steamboat/ the steamboat had a bell..." It's used for lots of children's parodies, it's been used for the "dog song" in Waiting for Godot, it's been used for the "spaghetti song" in "Arthur's Good Manners" -- is there an original, authored tune behind it? I'm trying to help a student who's collecting children's playground lore. Thanks!

Adam Davis Truman State University adavis@truman.edu