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- From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Songs containing states
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.140223.9076@linkoping.trab.se>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:02:23 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.211056.9143@news.media.mit.edu> <Bxqn5G.5F7@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> <1e4ipaINNk2i@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1e4ipaINNk2i@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <Bxqn5G.5F7@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, deghare@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Hare) writes:
- >>
- >>Actually, I think the line referred to here is: "Nothing could be finer than
- >> to have your ham'n eggs in Carolina", which comes from Chattanooga Choo Choo
- >
- >No, he was, indeed, quoting properly. The song goes something like:
- > Nothin' could be finer
- > Than to be in Carolina
- > In the morning.
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- The reference to Chattanooga Choo-Choo is also correct. Also,
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- When you hear the whistle blowing eight-to-the-bar
- Then you know that Tennessee can't be very far
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- from the same song.
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- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se 013-23 55 32
- Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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