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Re: Noun to Verb

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 7:44
In a message dated 12/3/01 10:19:38 PM, steven@OLYWA.NET writes:

<< BTW, David, "If it keeps on rainin', levee's gonna break" did not originate

with Led

Zeppelin.   Led Zep covered "When the Levee Breaks," which was written by a

blues

artist named Memphis Minnie.   I don't know whether the lyric orginated with

Memphis

Minnie or whether it had an earlier origin. >>

    <:O  Good Lord!  I had no idea!  I'm so disappointed...  Very, very
disappointed.  Not that I have anything against Memphis Minnie, whoever s/he
is...  Oh well.  What a day this has been...

-David

"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
                --Jim Morrison