...a pair of bonny eyes...
happy-go-lucky humming... from the moon:
"The Fountain in the Park" / aka "Strolling in the Park One Day"
...when much to my surprise!
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Curiously enough, I discovered that this familiar melody I have referred to above was written by a completely different Ed Haley (from London), who is absolutely not the same person as the completely blind fiddler named Ed Haley (from West Virginia and Kentucky). The American Ed Haley despised the music industry, so he would never have been published by Willis Woodward & Co., of New York, NY; but he definitely wrote the arrangement for the song, "Man of Constant Sorrow," that was used in the film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The tune is credited to yet another fiddler who was blind in only one eye, Dick Burnett. "There is some contention that the song is much older than Dick Burnett and therefore could not have been penned by him. (When asked if he wrote it originally, Dick says): "No, I think I got the ballet [sic] from somebody -- I dunno. It may be my song..."