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The Song Challenge:   Who Left Uncle Harry In The Bushes? July 6, 2000 - Fort Worth, Texas: Maintenance worker John Truex was minding his own business as he walked the grounds of the Woodhill Apartments on Monday, when he spied an odd-looking wooden box under a bush. "He had no idea what it was," said the manager of the complex. "It looked like a little coffin."  Truex took the box to the apartment office to show the manager and other staff members what he found. Curious, the group opened the lid and discovered a sealed brass box inside. They couldn't open the brass box, and couldn't figure out what it was, so they called the police. Office r W.T. Byrnes arrived at the scene and was just as stumped by the 1-foot-long by 4-inch-wide box, which seemed to be missing a display plate. "I wasn't real sure what it was," Byrnes said. "I called funeral homes in the area and they said, 'Yes, we package things like that,' and I said, 'Eeeeyew!'"  "According to a couple of funeral homes," continued Officer Byrnes, "they take ashes, put them in a plastic bag with a label of who it is and then put them in a box that they seal up and then put in a display case." Byrnes turned the little box over to the Medical Examiner's Office; however, the staff members there declined to comment yesterday. The statement from spokeswoman Linda Anderson was, "As it stands right now, we don't have any information on it -- All we have is a box."  But the apartment manager has heard otherwise. "It's an urn of some sort," she said. "The medical examiner's office found out that it is a lady from Granbury, but they haven't contacted any relatives. But I'm sure when a person finds out that their relative was left here, we will be hearing from them . . . (but) you've got to wonder who would leave Uncle Harry under a bush . . . .". 

Jesse And Harry by MMario

Jesse and Harry were brothers
Until the both of them died
But since they were both incognito
At their funerals nobody cried

Jesse was buried in Granb'ry
'Neath a stone that said he was "Frank"
Or else someone messed up the markers
Lordy, would that be a prank!

Chorus:

Harry, was always hot tempered
So when it was time all his folk
Thought "cremate" was better then "bury"
And laughed one last time at the joke

Chorus

Now Jesse went by the name Dalton
Until the day that he died
For after being a robber
'Twas certain that he had to hide!

Chorus

And Harry was nothing but ashes
And dust that was gritty and black
So his kinfolk swept up old Harry
And into a box him did pack

Chorus

But was Jesse James "Frank Dalton"?
Or is his resting place lost?
For the body exhumed from the graveyard
Most assuredly Jesse was not!

Chorus

Meanwhile the boxed brother Harry
Was shifted to mantle and ledge
Until one day the housekeeper
Just threw him out under the hedge

Chorus 

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