whole nine yards

[Jonathan Lighter]

There's probably no connection to the "nine yards of fabric" story, but on an LP from 1974, the east Kentucky fiddler J. P. Fraley plays a tune called "Swing Nine Yards of Calico."

The notes say he learned it from his father (evidently in the 1930s), who sang the following words,

"Sunday comes, I must go,
Swing nine yards of calico."

Grist for the mill.  The LP has been re-released and expanded as a CD: _Wild Rose of the Mountain_ (Rounder 82161-0037-2).

JL

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