Modern Proverbs Appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Paul Johnson]

Back in the Folk song phase of the late 60s, a carpenter friend used to
sing;

"If you were a lady and I was a carpenter
    I'd nail you"

Jim Parish wrote:

>Bill Mullins wrote:
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>>I've always heard this as, "If your only tool is a hammer, every problem
>>looks like a nail."
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>The version I'm familiar with - which I do use as a proverb - is "To a
>man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I don't know where I
>ran across it, though.
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