hooch

[Mike Cleven]

At 09:49 PM 1/30/99 -0800, Liland Brajant ROS' wrote:
>>>  This burg's a frost, I'm tellin' you; the brand o' hooch they're
>>>                                                     ^^^^^
sellin' you
>>>    ain't like the stuff we used to get, so let's pack up and go."
>>>
>>>(an old IOCA song, date & place of origin, and author, unknown)
>
>Somebody asked what IOCA meant.  It stands (or stood?) for something like
>"Intercollegiate Outing and Camping Association", and it sponsored the
>early editions of the _Song Fest_ line of songbooks.  My acquaintance
>with this song is through the 1954 or 1955 (?) edition of _Song Fest_,
>compiled by Dick & Beth Best, where it is unattributed.  Despite the
>occurrence of "hooch", the song's setting, in ancient Egypt, argues I
>think against a Robert Service origin.  But I must admit I haven't read
>all the Service I might have.

"The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
	down valleys dreadly desolate....."

The man's output was prodigious, and far more than McGrew and
McGee.....some say it's doggerel; myself, I think he's Canada's Homer.....