Date:  Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:16:04 -0500
From:  Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
Subject: pawpaw(s)

Carol Andrus <CLAndrus[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM> writes:
>>>>>>>>>>
It's funny how words vary. Down in rural Florida where I grew up,
pawpaws were papayas. Avocados were alligator pears (the
rough-skinned variety).
<<<<<<<<<<

Aye. I* remember learning a song in which either the chorus or every
verse ended "way down yonder in the paw-paw patch".

Not that I lived around there. I grew up in the suburbs of NYC
(Westchester) and then the city itself, in the fifties & sixties, but I was
exposed to a lot of folk music and irrevocably infected.

-- Mark A. Mandel
  50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s folkie
  60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s filker

* No relation to a hearty "Aye, aye" for Barry's return.