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   Message 4,974 of 6,461   
   Joe Fineman to LidsvilleNine   
   Re: 'Spot' the disease   
   16 May 08 03:10:12   
   
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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   LidsvilleNine  writes:   
      
   > Cool. Anyone know any good polio songs?   
      
   "The Man Who Couldn't Walk Around", sung by Josh White on _The House I   
   Live In_ (no notice of who wrote it).  An apotheosis of FDR.  Pretty   
   icky, but an interesting period piece.   
      
   The same record, incidentally, has "TB Blues".   
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