In sure Tom Glazer thought On Top Of Spaghetti was a whimsical, funny little song. If only he knew how the thought of the poor lost meatball has traumatised me for decades.

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@happysinger TIL that the line "all covered with sand" was a complete and utter lie.

@nullifidian I have no idea what his original lyrics were, but I learned "...and under a bush / And then my poor meatball / was covered in mush". Or slush.

@happysinger The older I get, the more I suspect that my entire youth was an egregious fiction, probably of my own fevered making.

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