Special Sauce

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:00 PM -0500 11/12/10, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>Of course, I forgot all about McD's. Thanks.
>
>Although I think G Love's sauce has more to do with vitality than vitals
>(i.e. food).
>
>
>http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/g.-love-&-special-sauce-lyrics/baby_s-got-sauce-lyrics.html
>
>kinda like in the old tune:
>
>"Leather Winged Bat"
>Trad.
>.....
>'I' said the red bird sitting on a fence
>'I once loved a handsome wench
>she got saucy and from me fled
>and ever since my head's been red'
>......
>http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/duhks/the-leather-winged-bat-18849.html
>
>
>My head is red, too,
>Eric
>

Or, for (unhappy) members of the other party, this corresponding
just-so verse (from a version sung by the British trad-folk group
Lucky Bags):

"I" said the bluebird sitting on a fence
"I once loved a handsome wench,
she got saucy and from me flew,
and ever since my head's been blue"


LH

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