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Now you take songs of my era they are not like the songs you here today. Our songs made sense. Here are a couple:

“HUT -SUT-RA, SETTING ON THE RILA -RA, AND THE BRAWLA-BRAWLA SUE IT.” What does this mean? Searcy me.

Another, “MAREZY DOTES AND DOEZE DOTES, AND LITTLE LAMZIE DIVEY, … A KIDDLY-DIVEY TOO WOULDN'T’ YOU?:”  Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too wouldn't you? Both songs from World War II.

Recently I said the first wife Beth, “You know the only automobile I ever really wanted was a Volkswagen Mini-bus?” I still would like to have one.”

Beth said, “Forget it - you can't have it.” (She handles the money.)  Besides that what would you do with it at 84 with no current driver's license a bad case of vertigo (staggers),  bunkum cardbus, ring-around-the collar, PMS, PDQ and a bunch of other UNMENTIONABLES.

“I could park it and just look at it I guess,” I said sort of vicarious enjoyment I suppose. We use the word vicarious a lot going up at New Cyprus.

At new Cypress School two rooms we're at recess the girls jump rope and the boys played Fox and Hounds and Shinny. Shinny was like hockey, except we played it with tobacco sticks and a beat up tin can. I suppose it was called Shinny because they were a lot of sore shins. We never heard of hockey.

At Cypress School we had rulers; the biggest were: come to order “during books”, try to learn, don't break line at the drinking well bucket and BOYS DON’T GO NEART THE GIRLS OUTHOUSE.

In grades one through five we had a 40ish year old spinster teacher. She finally married.  she made a bad choice - he was a drunk.  It was summertime. The husband came home one night drunk and tried to cut her throat. Fortunately, when she had gone to bed, she changed ends so her head would be beside an open window. HE CUT HER TOE INSTEAD. She woke up screaming. True story, she told my mother the whole episode.

One day at school my cousin Ruby Todd, who had the guts of a bank robber and very little sense to go with it, asked her to “see her sore toe”. She slapped him and told him to mind his own business.

I suppose Ruby gain a little sense later on. He worked at Nasa (National Space Administration) at Houston Texas for 30 years and retired.

SO GOES THE PASSING PARADE.

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