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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:36:13 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: A Christmas present for Torkel
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- I believe you were some time ago, asking about
- rattle snake watermelons. I doubt that the following
- would be of as much help as I initially thought it
- would be, but it does have to do with the south.
- I'm not sure, myself, what the references to watermelon
- here are, but they have an ominousness.
-
- from
- ALL AROUND THE WORLD
- OR
- THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS
-
- Words and Music by Paul Simon
-
- Well, the sun gets weary
- And the sun goes down
- Ever since the watermelon
- And the lights come up
- On the black pit town
- Somebody says what's a better thing
- to do
- Well, it's not just me
- And it's not just you
- This is all around the world
-
- It was the myth of fingerprints
- That's why we must learn to live alone
-