Klarinet Archive - Posting 000373.txt from 2004/05

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] 'Being familiar with' is not 'truly understanding'
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 00:55:31 -0400

It's
"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,"

It wouldn't rhyme if it was "Cracker Jacks".

For more, see
www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/ballgame.htm

Oddly, the lyricist had never been to a baseball game at the time he wrote
it.

Audrey Travis wrote:

> I learned it as ...Buy me some *peanuts* and
> Cracker Jacks....

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org