I Wish I Wuz

DESCRIPTION: "I wish't I was a little rock, A-settin' on a hill, An' doin' nothin' all day long But just a-setting still." The rock could rest for a million years. Or the singer may wish to be an orange squirting on shirts, or a fish that gets to swim without a suit
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Harbin-Parodology)
KEYWORDS: humorous animal bug clothes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Harbin-Parodology, #1, p. 9, "I Wish I Wuz" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (tune)
cf. "I Wish I Were a...." (theme of peculiar things to wish to be)
File: HPar001

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