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08-14-2009, 09:01 PM | #16 | |
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I had that 45 when I was a kid. My grandma and I sang it together. The beauty of it was that when you were young, you thought about how it sounded vs how it was spelled. Actually kind of brilliant. I think it was my induction to listening to the subtleties of the English language, because I could actually hear the difference between "Mairzy doats" and "Mares eat oats" when I parsed it out in my head.
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eta: when I think about it my grandma played it on a big old record, on her console stereo she had. It looked a lot like this:
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