[Bg-dance] Fwd: If All the World Were Paper

[Charlene Charette]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> I see a difference.  Interrogativa Cantilena / "If all the world were
> paper" just seems like silliness, so far as I can tell.  For example,
> I can't think of a meaning for
>
>
>> If all the world were sand-o,
>> Oh, then what should we lack-o?
>> If, as they say, there were no clay,
>> How should we take tobacco?
>

I don't much about smoking history, but if the pipes of the time were
made of clay then the verse makes as much sense as the others.

--Perronnelle


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