Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...

[Jim Parish]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> Yup; that was the "pasta substitute" to which I referred (below).
> But I'd forgotten the second verse.

Third verse, as I recall it:

It rolled down the sidewalk
And under a bush
Before I could catch it
My meatball was mush.

(Hmm. Outside of this song, my memory tells me that "mush" rhyming
with "bush" was a verb; the noun usually rhymed with "plush".)

Jim Parish

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