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Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half

12 Dec 09 - 02:07 AM (#2786682)
Subject: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: GUEST,BlueLizard

Hi -- I'm trying to identify an old song I used to sing in the car with my family on road trips back in the 1950s. When you read the lyrics I remember, this is going to sound pretty bizarre, but here goes: "Sawing a woman in half, I shivered and shaked till I laughed...a lady who had no regards for her ribs... till the orchestra played 'Until We Meet Again'... boy, did I get a kick out of sawing that woman in half." I'd really appreciate ANYTHING anyone knows about this tune. Many thanks.


12 Dec 09 - 09:34 PM (#2787205)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: Charley Noble

Refresh!

Well, I'd be interested in seeing the lyrics.

Charley Noble


13 Dec 09 - 07:16 AM (#2787317)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: NormanD

"I can saw a woman in two
But you won't want to look in the box when I do"

Warren Zevon ("For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer").

Certainly not your song.


13 Dec 09 - 09:45 AM (#2787369)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: Charley Noble

I wonder if the chorus runs something like:

We saw you saw a women in half...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


13 Dec 09 - 09:58 AM (#2787379)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: Waddon Pete

...this song could be a cut above the average....


13 Dec 09 - 10:59 AM (#2787403)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: John MacKenzie

I've heard of a trial separation, but that seems a bit extreme


13 Dec 09 - 09:42 PM (#2787748)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: Art Thieme

I used to play a saw in my performances. And I did, at one time, have a female assistant---for the purpose of sawing her in half.



But she moved to New York and San Francisco!!!!!!






Art Thieme


13 Dec 09 - 10:52 PM (#2787769)
Subject: RE: Origins: Sawing a Woman in Half
From: GUEST,Russ

Never heard of the song.

My dad would sometimes say, "If they sawed a woman in half, I'd get the half that ate."

Russ (Permanent GUEST)