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144. Somebody actually wrote a song about Lizzie Borden?

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #130)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 04:42 PM

Jan 2016

Last edited Sun Jan 24, 2016, 07:47 PM - Edit history (1)

"Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one"

(It was her step-mother, actually)

I think you're the 1st to mention "Mrs. Robinson", a truly great song.

"Frankie & Johnny Were Sweethearts" is another great song.
I hate to admit it but I love Lindsay Lohan's version of that song in "A Prairie Home Companion"
(Robert Altman's last movie)

I didn't know the Bee Gees had a "pre-disco" period.

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