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Old 07-06-2013, 06:25 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by NN5I View Post
The lines at the end, You may think that this is the end -- well it is are older than Mitch Miller's TV show. My friends and I sang them before 1954 in California (my family moved to Japan in April 1954 when I was 13). Mitch Miller's Sing Along With Mitch ran from 1961 to 1964.

Here's what we sang:

Be kind to your web-footed friends
For the duck may be somebody's mother
Be kind to your friends in the swamp
Where the weather is cold and damp [pronounced domp]
You may think that this is the end
Well it is

Sometimes we sang well it ain't 'cuz there's still another chorus and then cut it off with well it is the next time around.

That is what I recall from Mitch Miller... Now,, did you know there really are lyrics to Stars and Stripes Forever.. Sousa wrote them.

Hurrah for the red white nad blue
May it wave as our standard forever


Somewhere on this hard drive should be the entire song. And not only that but a barbershop quartet singing it as well.

In fact...
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