I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
- I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
"I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is a song from 1927, written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods. It was a hit for Art Mooney in 1948 and was largely popularized by him. In modern times the song is perhaps most associated with "Merrie Melodies" cartoons, as it appeared in several of them."I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is the official anthem of the Philadelphia MLS team support group, Sons of Ben
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*The UCLA Band has played an arrangement of this tune since 1954, and uses the chorus as the second part of Rover, the Bruin victory song. Similar lyrics have been used for two other songs.
** "My Dead Dog Rover" by Hank Stu Dave and Hank (Hank Landsberg & Dave Whited) from 1977, which appears on the Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection - The parody version "I'm Looking Over my dead dog rover" was played on Dr. Demento's show for a time. [ [http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo_view.pl?SYN053344 Dr. Demento database] ]
** "I’m Lookin’ Over My Dead Dog Rover" by Kevin Gershon from 1973 and played on KMET FM in Los Angeles
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