Jimmy Crack(-ed?/-s?) Corn

[Tom Kysilko]

Might you be thinking of the Allan Sherman parody:  "Gimme Jack Cohen"?
 From "My Son, the Folksinger", 1962.

At 8/28/2004 01:32 PM -0400, sagehen wrote:
>I took the "gimme" theory to mean that the original had been making use of
>an already existing folk song, or at least a more or less common
>expression. I don't remember that any claim was made as to Emmett's
>version's having "gimme."
>A. Murie
>[It wasn't Burl Ives or as recently as 1972 that my recollection is from:
>more like the '50s.]


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