dialect tidbit

[Alice Faber]

FRITZ JUENGLING said:
>When I hear 'Good night, nurse' I think of Archie Bunker who said it
>fairly frequently.  I don't think I've ever heard it off TV, tho.
>However, I use "Good night, Irene!"  I have no idea who Irene is.  I
>tend not to make up things like that, but I do not know where I got
>it. Has anyone else heard that?
>

Wasn't that a song? <pause to google> :
<http://betty.hypermax.net.au/goodnightirene.htm>
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