Re: CHAT: folk songs
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 23, 2001, 1:35 |
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Roger Mills scripsit:
> Hmmm-- that's not the Sweet Betsy from Pike we sang in grade school!
> (1940s)--
> her _lover_ Ike??? _divorce_??? Obviously updated. ;-)
More likely the version you sang was censored. Burl Ives sings
"her lover Ike" on the 78rpm records my parents had. And divorce
is not a novelty.
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