An animated-cartoon hillbilly is getting ready to "pah-TAY!"

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Mon Nov 5 19:57:09 UTC 2012


Wilson Gray wrote:
> If it wasn't for the old song from the in-the-loose-sense '60's,
> "She's _Come Undone_," I'd otherwise never have heard this expression,
> before. {I'm *assuming* that that phrase is the title. Youneverknow.)

The song is "Undun", by the Guess Who (released in 1969, so the sense
need not be loose), not to be confused with the 2011 album of the same
name by The Roots. Just in case you were actually wondering....

Jim Parish

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