Bouncy jingle
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Feb 1999
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Charles Dye — 21 Feb 1999, 16:09

> Newt wrote:
> And another thing:
> 
> " Because I could not stop for Death,
>   He kindly stopped for me; 
>   The carriage held but just ourselves 
>   And immortality. 
> 
> That's the last verse to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" not a TV themesong.
> Don't you people know anything?

To which Jack Lyons <revjack at Radix.Net> replied:

> I think your teacher was trolling you, that verse came from
> Dorothy Parker.

Nope, it's actually a little-known verse of the Coca-Cola theme
song, the one you hear on TV around Christmastime.  The words
are by Marilyn Moore, I think.  Anyhow, it has the same cheery
rythm as "I heard a fly buzz when I died."

raster at highfiber.com

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