[Sca-cooks] Query re. The Muffin Man!! (OOP OT)

[Laura C. Minnick]

Susan Laing wrote:
>
> Arrrgggghhhhhh - having finally seen "Shrek" I find that I can not get the
> following dialogue out of my mind.....
>
> Can anyone advise where this comes from? - It is a children's nursery rhyme
> or perhaps a US based commercial jingle?
>
> Help!
>
> Mari
> (Muffin'd out!)
>
> Lord Farquaad: Tell me where the creatures are!
> Gingerbread Man: All right, I'll tell you. Do you know the muffin man?
> Lord Farquaad: The muffin man?
> Gingerbread Man: The muffin man.
> Lord Farquaad: Why yes, I know the muffin man. The one who lives on Drury
> Lane?

Children's nursery rhyme. I know. After thrre kids and gazillions of
hours of Wee Sing tapes (thank god no one ever bought them a Raffi tape
or I would be insane) I can sing it through and WISH YOU HADN'T DONE
THIS! Now I can't get it out of MY mind!!

AAAAAHHH!!!

'Lainie