Okay, a few months ago, I woke up with a scrap of a melody in my head—without any lyrics that I could remember, or even knowing for sure if I’d actually heard it before, or if I made it up in my sleep.
Luckily, though, I was rewatching Ric Burn’s lovely and terrifying 1992 documentary “The Donner Party,” and what do you know, they used the same melody! The problem being, however, it’s not listed in the credits.
I do have a snippet of the music here, albeit with a voiceover. Can anyone ID this one?
It’s possible you heard it with the alternative lyrics:
An accident happened to my brother Jim
When somebody threw a tomato at him
Tomatoes are soft and they don’t bruise your skin
But this one hurt 'cause it came in a tin.
