Putin

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:51 PM -0400 6/6/07, Philip E. Cleary wrote:
>>My version (NYC) was
>>
>>Beans, beans, the magical fruit,
>>The more you eat, the more you toot.
>>The more you toot, the better you feel,
>>So eat beans with every meal.
>
>The Boston version is:
>
>Beans, beans, the musical fruit,
>The more you eat, the more you toot.
>The more you toot, the better you feel,
>The more you can eat at your next meal.
>
Actually you just reminded me--the first line in mine above should
also have been "...the musical fruit", not "...the magical fruit".
All I can say is that it has been a while.  (The fourth line in our
version was indeed as I gave it, though.)

LH

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