re left, left, left my wife etc.

[Rowyn McDonald]

Is the 3-beat blank you're missing "gingerbread"?

I know it as:

"Left, left, left, right, left
Left my wife and forty-eight children
Alone in the kitchen with nothing but gingerbread
left, left, right, left."

-Rowyn McDonald

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>  The version I remember, from the '40s went:
> "Left, left, left my wife & forty-eight kids
> To starve to death on nothing but _____ " (3 beats)
> but I can't remember what _______ was !
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