"have ever been"

[Mark A. Mandel]

Ron writes:
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I remember a drinking song from college (or was it from Boy Scout camp?)
that had the line, "One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so."

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That's "Green Grow the Rushes"
(http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2413), which I can imagine
being used as a drinking song though I have never heard it that way.

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
   http://filk.cracksandshards.com/

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