earlier Boom!

[Wilson Gray]

Older, but merely similar:

"Boom! Boom! Out go the lights"

Refrain and title of a song written by Margaret Lewis and recoded by
"Little" Walter Jacobs, released in 1957

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-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.
-Mark Twain




On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Â From a 1994 bio of Newt Gingrich:
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> http://goo.gl/IfBli
> Ellensburg Daily Record - Nov 28, 1994
> Jill Lawrence (AP). The Rise of the Backbencher. p. 5/2-3
>> "It shocked the town because he was out Horatio Alger. We were so
>> proud," said Floyd Hoskins, a retired West Georgia history professor
>> who was Gingrich's close friend and office-mate. The general reaction,
>> he said, was "You mean I helped buy the furniture for their house and
>> now he's throwing her out? A lot of people said, 'Boom, we don't like
>> Newt anymore.'"
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