When I was little people used to sing this song to me. The people who sang it were always elderly and always said it was an old song they remembered. As the years went by I stopped hearing this song from kindly old strangers. I assumed that it was because the people who were old enough to remember the song were... no longer with us.

This morning an older coworker came by my desk and started singing that funny old song. In my excitement I told him that I didn't think anyone knew that song anymore and before long he was sharing stories with me about the good old days. I just wish someone was old enough to tell me the origins and time period of that song before no one remembers it.
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