paper of/and pins

[Alison Murie]

A rather defective earworm has been dogging me since this thread
began:...."(....tumty tum).......a paper of pins, For that's the way
true love begins."
AM
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On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 2:54 PM -0500 3/2/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
>> See
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>> http://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4591
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> Looks like it has an unhappy ending--
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> And now I see that money is all,
> And woman's love is nothing at all;
> So I'll not marry you,
> So I'll not marry you.
>
> I'm determined to be an old maid,
> Take my stool and live in the shade,
> And marry no one at all,
> And marry no one at all.
>
> --BUT:  she then becomes a shade-tree mechanic and lives happily (or
> at least in financial security) ever after.
>
> LH
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