Other lyrics:
Dainty as a Dresden statue,
Gentle as a Jersey cow;
Smooth as silk, gives creamy milk,Learn to coo, learn to moo,
That’s what you do to be a lady now
From http://www.peggyseeger.com/about/songmaker
And some stories....
"Toshi, who also raised the couple's children, had a very dry sense of humor, says the musician Ruth Ungar. The daughter of fiddler Jay Ungar, Ruth has known the Seegers since she was a little girl. She says she remembers seeing an old New Yorker cartoon on their kitchen wall.
'It's a woman answering the phone and she's got a baby under one arm, or maybe two. And she's doing the dishes with one hand and mopping the floor with [her] foot," Ungar explains. "And the quote on the bottom says something like, 'I'm sorry, my husband can't come to the phone right now. He's out fighting for the rights of the oppressed.' "
From http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/07/11/201159066/Toshi-Seeger-Wife-Of-Folk-Singer-Pete-Seeger-Dies-At-91
"In 1961 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced to a year in jail. “I accepted every booking that came in, figuring that most of them would be canceled,” Mrs. Seeger said, “but the appeals court acquitted him and nothing was canceled. It was a horrendously busy year.”
'Never again,' she said. 'Next time let him go to jail.'
Her gentle chiding curbed any chance that Mr. Seeger’s ego would balloon. 'I hate it when people romanticize him,' she said. 'He’s like anybody good at his craft, like a good bulldozer operator.'
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