From: merlebarnes@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   Hi there:   
      
   I'm looking for a song called "I'm Saving Up Coupons (To Get One Of Those)"   
   written by J. E. Mainer and Jimmie O'Neal and recorded by J. E. Mainer.   
   There   
   is some indication that it was also recorded by a guy named Don Bille. I   
   have   
   the lyrics but I need to know how the melody goes.  Here are the lyrics:   
      
   The different cigar stores are giving away   
   Hundreds and thousands of coupons each day   
   You get good things for nothing and you bet your life   
   You get things good-for-nothing 'cuz I got a wife.   
      
   You can shut up a jack knife, you've all heard it said   
   I'm sorry that I didn't get one instead   
   Five million coupons is what my wife cost   
   I'd give ten million more to get a divorce.   
      
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those   
   Of coupon-eritis I'll die I suppose   
   But a nice little casket the catalog shows   
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.   
      
   My brother got married and right off the reel   
   He started to save for an automobile   
   And the day that he got it, from smokin' he died   
   From his house to the graveyard was his only ride.   
      
   His wife then got busy, no time did she lose   
   Till some lucky boob hopped in poor brother's shoes   
   And now every evening they both can be seen   
   As they motor around in poor brother's machine.   
      
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those   
   When I die my wife marries and riding she goes   
   I hope when they're in it the darn thing explodes   
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.   
      
   My wife got the habit, she's saving a few   
   She has sevnteen thousand nine hundred and two   
   She wants a new hat and I don't know what for   
   To get it she needs only three thousand more.   
      
   We'd been married a year in a nice little flat   
   And all that we have is a dog and a cat   
   The lady next door is just chuck full of joy   
   The stork came and left her a new baby boy.   
      
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those   
   My wife is now making some cute baby clothes   
   I don't know who told her but somehow she knows   
   I'm saving up coupons to get one of those.   
      
   Take Care   
   Merle   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)