lay me down WAS Re: " Olive, the other reindeer" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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My wife told me she thought the prayer was "fishuhdybee for awake", and
had no idea for years that it was really "if I should die before I
wake".

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> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: lay me down WAS Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"
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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: lay me down WAS Re: " Olive, the other reindeer"
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> Well, Charlie, I admit that "Tobedwego" does make a heck of a
> lot more sense than "Abindago"! :-)
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> -Wilson
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> On 8/6/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > Wilson, do you mean to inform me--after all these
> years--that it wasn't Shadrach, Meshach, and Tobedwego??
> >
> > --Charlie
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> > >Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:53:37 -0400
> > >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> > >When I first heard this, I didn't have sufficient command
> of speech to have developed any expectations about it. That
> [nauwaileimi] should be as meaningless as Shadrach, Meshach,
> or Abindago (as I, as a child, heard the last) to a child of
> toddler's age or younger is not something that I find
> difficult to understand.
> > >
> > >-Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
> complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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