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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: The words to a children's song
Message-ID: <198@octopus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 23:48:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 23:48:50 1986
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Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino, CA
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My mom sang this to me when I was a kid too.  I remember
it as follows:  

  Down in the meadow in an iddy biddy pool
  Fwam fwee widdle fiddies and a momma fiddy too;
  "Fwim!" said the momma fiddy,
  "Fwim, if you can."
  And they fwam and they fwam all over the dam.

 Ip dip diddum daddum waddum choo (x3)
 And they fwam and they fwam all over the dam.

My mom said that she remembered this as a popular song on the radio,
(in the 20s? 30s?...) and they sang it in "baby talk" as typed
above.  Captain Kangaroo sang it in "adult" talk.

			  Have fun! --Leslie (Pete's wife)


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