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From:  "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date:  Mon Jan 28, 2002  8:43 pm
Subject:  "Joey, Joey, Joey"

>From: Margaret Harrison Naomi Gurt Lind wrote: >
>
>Tony is the character's name. I seem to recall that "Joey" is sung by
>Tony's young mail-order bride, who's been swept off her feet by the young,
>good-looking farmhand named Joey.
>

Nope, the song is sung by Joe, the hired hand, about his inability to stay
in one place for long. The opening line is "Like a perfumed woman, the wind
comes through the bunkhouse, like a perfumed woman, smellin' of where she's
been."

Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
"This would be a better world for children if the parents had to eat the
spinach." --Groucho Marx


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