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[angevin2]

So for possibly-obvious reasons I have felt an impulse to listen to Depression-era music lately, and this leads to one of those "songs that shouldn't really mash up but do in my head anyway": "Frankie and Johnny" has a rather unsettling habit of morphing into "The Boll Weevil" and back for no good reason.

The farmer took the boll weevil

Comments

[liadan_m]

The academic institution where you belong has recently acquired a new faculty member in my field. And he wants grad students. Umm...this may be interesting.

I hate to do this to you...

[dakiwiboid]

but it's alleged that the murder on which the song was happened in St. Louis in 1899. It was the case of Frankie Baker, who stabbed her lover Allen Britt for messing around with a girl named Alice Pryor. The names don't quite match, but it was a really notorious trial, and we had a lot of songsters here then. Fortunately, we had a quite remarkable lack of boll weevils. ;)

[elettaria]

This reminds me of when we played Consequences with limericks and such in my LJ. Nicely bizarre.

[dsgood]

Puff the magic dragon
Had a very shiny nose

Good King Wenscelas came to town
Riding on a pony

[serrana]

Herself has been known to merge "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with the ABC song, producing Twinkle twinkle little star, H I J K L M N O P, up above the world so high, W X, Y and Z, now I know my A B Cs, next time won't you sing wif me....