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3.54slike the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville.
3.1sI needed a new heel for my shoe,
3.15sso I decided to go to Morganville,
3.59swhich is what they called Shelbyville in those days.
2.65sSo I tied an onion to my belt,
1.87swhich was the style at the time.
2.65sNow, to take the ferry cost a nickel.
4.82sAnd in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em.
3.6s"Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
1.77sNow, where were we? Oh, yeah!
3.84sThe important thing was that I had an onion on my belt,
2.5swhich was the style at the time.
3.6sThey didn't have white onions because of the war.