riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (10/23/84)
If net.wobegon is to become the net's repository of folk arts, here's my
contribution. Pete Seeger sang this version of the classic children's song
when he came through town last spring. Since he skipped a few verses, some
of my friends and I filled them in, which I guess is what a folk song is all
about. (I keep meaning to send him the diffs.) We've sung it at a few
public gatherings since then; I'll let you figure out what kind of gatherings
they were.
1: This old man
He played one
He came down to Washington
With a knick-knack-paddywhack
Give the dog a bone
This old man should go back home!
2: He dumped it on me and you
3: No more school kids' lunches free
4: Now we're in El Salvador
5: Student loans did not survive
6: He did better in the flicks
7: Gonna blow us all to heaven
8: Next best thing since Watergate
9: Nic-a-ra-guan ports are mined
10: Let's get out and VOTE A-GAIN!
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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