Buy the farm

[Jonathan Lighter]

Please do (he said dubiously).

  JL

neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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I note that RHDAS gives a date of 1954 for 'buy the farm' with the sense of
'to die'.

I was listening to 'Early Bud Powell 1944-1946' at the weekend in Somerset.
The fourth track, by Cootie Williams Sextet, recorded on 4 January 1944, is
titled 'Gotta Do Some War Work'.

The refrain makes mention of "buy the farm".

If anyone's interested I could transcribe the words, next time I'm in the
country...

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