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Fella Show

"Sweet Dinah won't you blow my horn?" She's in the kitchen shucking corn And when she hums The whole world comes To bless the day when she was born!

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I Am Anaya

Date: 8/17/2022 10:31:00 AM

I hope you played both songs on a loop all day for both spirits! I read somewhere: "These bright summer days present a world starker than fall's greyest hours"

I Am Anaya
Date: 8/22/2022 11:20:00 AM

Found one more classic, Rico. "Hard Hearted Hanna The Vamp Of Savannah" a sadistic "vamp" or femme fatale from Savannah, Georgia 1924

Valsa George

Date: 8/16/2022 9:30:00 PM

What a request to Dinah... who is otherwise busy.... ! Too naughty !

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/17/2022 11:45:00 AM

It was written back in the day when African slave girls were referred to as, "Dinah". Aloha!

Eve Roper

Date: 8/16/2022 7:19:00 PM

Blessings also to Dinah... : ) Blessing my friend

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/17/2022 11:43:00 AM

The Bible claims everyone is gifted with a talent! Aloha, Eve! Aloha!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 8/16/2022 1:47:00 PM

i'm so glad the censors have no idea what you're talking about much of the time, rico! (not that there's anything they can do about it since you're too clever!) you make me laugh...

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/16/2022 2:38:00 PM

If it even makes you smile, it is all worthwhile! Mahalo nui loa! Aloha!

Tom Cunningham

Date: 8/16/2022 1:33:00 PM

Lol sounds like a sweet lass. Tom

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/17/2022 10:53:00 AM

Dinah originates in Genesis 34, but back in the 1830s, an Englishman (J.H. Cave) felt compelled to write about the lip service tendered by a kitchen maid. Cave's verses were sanitised and are now most familiar as verses in the classic American folksong, "I've Been Working on the Railroad" Aloha!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/16/2022 1:06:00 PM

hahaha

Jim Slaughter

Date: 8/16/2022 11:07:00 AM

Ditto what Connie said...Appealing as all get-out, Rico. I hope your father had as wonderful a sense of humor as do you.

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/16/2022 2:41:00 PM

He couldn't die laughing as he was in a VA hospital where they amputated the wrong leg. Aloha!

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 8/16/2022 10:58:00 AM

I love this appealing Limerick Rico. I also enjoyed reading your interesting comment below. Have a great day. Blessings xxoo

Rico Leffanta
Date: 8/16/2022 2:38:00 PM

Mahalo nui loa! Aloha!

Rico Leffanta

Date: 8/16/2022 10:33:00 AM

Like Elvis Presley, my father died on 16.VIII. "Dinah won't you blow my horn" was like his theme song, but they declined to play it at his funeral. I suggested Presley's, "How I love to feel her organs, in the chapel in the moonlight", but they declined to play that, as well. At least they refrained from planting him in the Missionary Position!