{Ed Note: This is the last of the series from the original collection I’ve used. There are about ten or so. Most of them are along these lines: The group singing a song. Some familiar, some not. -Will Truman}
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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“A song with no recognizable merit whatsoever.”Report
Except that when my children were each an infant, they adored having Dad rock them to sleep singing Clementine. At that time, I knew all the verses. I maintain that the first-person story is an admission of a hideous crime: the singer and the sister kill Clementine and allow the father to wither and die, leaving the mine and its riches for them.Report
If her father was so rich, why was she wearing herring boxes for shoes?Report
All details of the conspiracy theory are left as an exercise for the students.Report
They were the NFT of herring-box footwear.Report
Bobby Darin’s version has…not aged well. I once had a Bobby Darin CD in my car while giving a ride to a fairly rotund friend, and she pulled it out and zeroed right in on that track as the one she wanted to hear. Awkwardness was averted when after thirty seconds or so she decided that it wasn’t as good as she had expected.
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