Date:  Thu, 31 Mar 1994 08:03:50 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Popular Expressions



From Charlie Poole, the fretless banjo player popular at moonshine dances

Status: R



in the late twenties and early thirties, a verse from "Soldier's Joy":



Grasshopper sittin' on a sweet potater vine,

Grasshopper sittin' on a sweet potater vine,

Grasshopper sittin' on a sweet potater vine,

Along comes a chicken and says "You're mine."



The morphophonemics may actually be different on the record, but this is

good enough for chickens.



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Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

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