On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: #Similar, but not the song I was thinking of. IIRC, here's #the refrain of the one I'm thinking of: # #:Oh, no, don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please! #:[maybe a line ending in "cheese"] #:Don't fry it or (shake?) it, for God's sake don't bake it! #:Don't shed the poor blood, of that poor helpless spud, #:It's the worst kind of thing you could do. #:Oh, no, don't slay that potato, what never done nothin to you. It's by Tom Paxton. See http://www.geocities.com/willboyne/nosurrender/DontSlay.html -- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname http://world.std.com/~mam/filk.html