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“Because there's a tremendous rhythm and pulse in the South that is nowhere else, as opposed to a vaudevillian-kind of swanee, how I love you, how I love you, which at that time was the rhythm of the South.”
“Both women used the word “swanee” as a substitute for “swear.””
“Mother's Milk was an enjoyable but not for me a superlative read, as I followed Patrick's mid-life crisis over a period of several years through fatherhood, mistress-dom and an inheritance rapidly disappearing down the swanee as his ailing mother bequeaths the family silver to a very dodgy New Age set up.”
“(Soundbite of song, "Swanee") Ms. AUSTIN: (Singing) For me, how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old swanee … STAMBERG: When Al Jolson sang it in blackface, it became George Gershwin's first big hit.”
“Oh go on Mr Hitch... by the way I am glad you are alive, I read in the paper Bernard Manning had died and the same day your blog went up the swanee and an awful thought occurred to me.. by the way with Bernie being dead there may be an opening...”
“However, the friend I asked to put the bet on for me forgot. £1600 down the swanee ...”
“Pearlie nods approvingly at Peggy, whose daily practice of meditation Grandma now refers to as “that swanee thing.””
“The main theme of the sixth movement, "Rat Song and Crusoe Song," is a tune for massed swanee whistles that you will not be able to get out of your mind.”
“Honestly the way the young complain, you'd think we stole all their wealth and sold them down the swanee.”
“Get ready for the hikes in water rates, business rates, local government rates and all the rest - this place is up the economic swanee - the cops need a fortune to keep going and they are not for getting it.”
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