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TServo2049
Since: Jan, 2001
FloydPinkerton
Since: Nov, 2010

It's bugging me that I can't remember the title or lyrics of a folk song I heard when I was a kid. It begins with a nine-note motif, the last four of which are a jump up in the scale. Those four notes are sung so the second and fourth are stressed. I think the words that come after that are "far far away."
I think Marge Simpson hummed the beginning of it in the episode "Realty Bites," but no Simpsons episode guide has anything about the song.
Edited by FloydPinkerton