This toon goes back three or four years when I was trying to get caption contests going. Didn't happen. So we'll simply regard this scrawl as 'retrospective'.
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homecraft
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"Melville was never one to learn from the mistakes of others..."
The fly the fly, the fly, the fly be on the turnip....
"Twere on a jolly zummer's day, the twenty-fust o' May, John Scroggins took his turmut-hoe, wi' thic he trudged away: "Now zome volks they likes haymakin', and zome they vancies mowin'- But of all the jobs as I likes best, gi'e I the turmut-hoein'."
Chorus
The vly, the vly, The vly be on the turmut - 'Tis all me eye Fer I to try To keep vly off the turmut.
"The fust place as I went to work, it were wi' Varmer Gower: Who vowed and swore as how I were a fust-rate turmut-hoer; The second place I went to work, they paid I by the job -
But if I'd knowed a little 'afore, I'd sooner a' bin in quod."
Chorus
The vly, the vly, The vly be on the turmut - 'Tis all me eye Fer I to try To keep vly off the turmut.
"The last place as I went to work, they sent fer I a-mowin', I sent word back, I'd sooner take the zack, than gi'e up turmut-hoein'! Now all you jolly varmer chaps wot bides at home so warm - I'll now conclude my ditty wi' a-wishin' you no harm."
Chorus
The vly, the vly, The vly be on the turmut - 'Tis all me eye Fer I to try To keep vly off the turmut.
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"Melville was never one to learn from the mistakes of others..."
A flyover. RIP Turnips.
The fly the fly, the fly, the fly be on the turnip....
"Twere on a jolly zummer's day, the twenty-fust o' May,
John Scroggins took his turmut-hoe, wi' thic he trudged away:
"Now zome volks they likes haymakin', and zome they vancies mowin'-
But of all the jobs as I likes best, gi'e I the turmut-hoein'."
Chorus
The vly, the vly,
The vly be on the turmut -
'Tis all me eye
Fer I to try
To keep vly off the turmut.
"The fust place as I went to work, it were wi' Varmer Gower:
Who vowed and swore as how I were a fust-rate turmut-hoer;
The second place I went to work, they paid I by the job -
But if I'd knowed a little 'afore, I'd sooner a' bin in quod."
Chorus
The vly, the vly,
The vly be on the turmut -
'Tis all me eye
Fer I to try
To keep vly off the turmut.
"The last place as I went to work, they sent fer I a-mowin',
I sent word back, I'd sooner take the zack, than gi'e up turmut-hoein'!
Now all you jolly varmer chaps wot bides at home so warm -
I'll now conclude my ditty wi' a-wishin' you no harm."
Chorus
The vly, the vly,
The vly be on the turmut -
'Tis all me eye
Fer I to try
To keep vly off the turmut.
Winners all for this caption contest! The fly on the turnip song was fun...What's the background on it, Soubriquet?
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