Kids' Songs (Was: Re: those funny little stories)
Laurence Doering
>
>Which brings to mind a question about kids' songs. Did anyone
>else sing the "Miss Suzy" song? One of the versions we had seemed to go
>on forever, and I never *did* know all the verses. Here's as
>much as I remember:
>
>Miss Suzy had a steamboat
>The steamboat had a bell
>Miss Suzy went to heaven
>The steamboat went to
>Hell-o operator
> ...
>
>(and that's as much as I remember, but I know there is more)
>
>Am I the only deranged individual who sang this as a child?
>(besides the other kids at my grade school and camp?) :)
When my sisters were in elementary school, they'd sing a version of this
while playing a clapping game (sitting on the floor facing each other,
clapping in a complicated pattern). Their version began "Michael had
a steamboat", though. They had another song, which went:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifteen cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Go jump a fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They touched the sky, sky, sky
And didn't come back, back, back
Till next July, July, July
Naturally I avoided these sorts of activities, since I didn't want to catch
girl germs.
Elizabeth Fike
>Everybody agrees with <1991Apr17.213949*Steina...@delab.sintef.no>
>Steina...@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) that the first line is:
>> "There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants."
Actually, come to think of it, I heard it at camp as
"There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance
There's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all"
and also as:
"Oh they don't wear pants on the other side of France
No they show it all on the other side of Gaul"
or some such.
Which brings to mind a question about kids' songs. Did anyone
else sing the "Miss Suzy" song? One of the versions we had seemed to go
on forever, and I never *did* know all the verses. Here's as
much as I remember:
Miss Suzy had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Suzy went to heaven
The steamboat went to
Hell-o operator
Connect me number 9
And if you disconnect me
I'll kick you from behind
Refrigerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Suzy sat upon it
And broke her big fat
Ask me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their
Flies are in the city
The bees are in the park
Miss Suzy and her boyfriend
Are kissing in the
Darker than the ocean
Darker than the sea
(and that's as much as I remember, but I know there is more)
Am I the only deranged individual who sang this as a child?
(besides the other kids at my grade school and camp?) :)
/tbear
"I think that God's got a sick sense of humor
And when I die, I expect to find him laughing"
--Depeche Mode, "Blasphemous Rumors"
Warren Chang
>else sing the "Miss Suzy" song? One of the versions we had seemed to go
>on forever, and I never *did* know all the verses. Here's as
>much as I remember:
>
>Miss Suzy had a steamboat
>The steamboat had a bell
>Miss Suzy went to heaven
>The steamboat went to
>Hell-o operator
>Connect me number 9
>And if you disconnect me
>I'll kick you from behind
[more lyrics, deleted]
Hmm, this reminds me of several (different) songs that kids would sing
on buses at day camp (ages 6-12). In addition to the steamboat and the
operator song (one song), there was a song about some girl named "Rosie"
who was involved in various sexually suggestive (to put it mildly) acts,
wherein the kids who were singing would never sing the last word
(there would be an obvious break in the meter and the rhyme). Amazingly,
the camp counselors never chided them (us :-), and more amazingly to
me now is that, on reflection, the song was almost always sung by the
*girls* (ooh ick gross :-). The song went something like this:
[Chorus:]
Bang bang, Rosie, Rosie bangs all day,
Who's gonna bang for Rosie when Rosie's gone away?
Rosie had a turtle, she also had a duck;
she put them on the table, to see if they would --
[Chorus]
Rosie has a bicycle, the seat is made of glass
One day the seat broke open, and a piece went up her --
[Chorus]
Rosie likes playing baseball, she also likes to watch
a baseball flew right at her and hit her in the --
[Chorus]
[more verses than I can remember]
And other similar verses. Never heard it anywhere else, nor met anyone
else who knew it (who hadn't gone to my day camp), but then again, it's
not something I usually ask people ("Hey! You ever sing this song called
`Bang Bang Rosie?' It goes like this ... ?")
Another interesting song we used to sing was a rather hostile song that
the boys would sing about the girls and vice versa. Often the whole bus
would be singing it at the same time, with each sex trying to sing louder
than the other, especially at the crucial words which specified which
sex was to be -- well, here's the song:
We like the {boys | girls} with a rope around their necks
A knife in the back and a bullet in the head
We like the {boys | girls} with a rope around their necks
Hanging from the Whitestone Bridge [a bridge in Queens]
Cut the rope! Drop dead! What the heck ("hell" by the
older or more adventursome :-) do we care?
Let's rip off their underwear!
Take a look what's under there!
Jeeeezzus, did those counselors *really* let us sing that??? I haven't
thought much about these songs since I was 12 (funny how I still remember
so much of them; can't seem to get rid of some things from your past,
I guess, much like the soundtrack to _Grease_ :-). Oh, my Lord.
And no, there were no such assaults in reality :-).
Warren Chang
w...@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
"I don't follow leaders; I watch the parking meters"
--> Why have an arms race when we can have a foot race instead? <--
Steve Simmons
>Which brings to mind a question about kids' songs. Did anyone
>else sing the "Miss Suzy" song? One of the versions we had seemed to go
>on forever, and I never *did* know all the verses. Here's as
>much as I remember:
>Miss Suzy had a steamboat
>The steamboat had a bell
>Miss Suzy went to heaven
>The steamboat went to
>Hell-o operator . . .
It's still around. My 8-year-old came home from school singing
it last month. I never heard it when I was a kid, tho. And you
know more verses than my daughter does.
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practicing cannibals." Rod Johnson
Melanie Lotocky
Suzy" song....Ah yes! I remember this one. My version is a bit
different than yours, and it definitely ended with boys and girls
kissing in the dark.
Miss Suzy had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Suzy went to heaven
And the steamboat went to
Hello operator
Please give me number 9
And if you disconnect me
I will kick your big
Behind the 'frigerator
There lies a piece of glass
Miss Suzy slipped upon it
And cut her little
Ask me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Pulling down their
Flies are in the kitchen
The bees are in the barn
Boys and girls are kissing
In the D-A-R-K, dark dark dark.
Melanie.
Richard Chapman
>bet...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike) mentions the "Miss
>Suzy" song....Ah yes! I remember this one. My version is a bit
>different than yours, and it definitely ended with boys and girls
>kissing in the dark.
>Miss Suzy had a steamboat
>The steamboat had a bell
>Miss Suzy went to heaven
>Melanie.
...
Okay, can anyone remember the lyrics to the "Shaving Cream" song?
I remember the first verse only:
I have a sad story to tell you,
It may hurt your feelings a bit,
Last night I walked into my bathroom,
And stepped in a big pile of
Sh - aving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
What are the other verses?
Sean McAfee
>Okay, can anyone remember the lyrics to the "Shaving Cream" song?
This is from my Dr. Demento "Dementia Royale" tape:
A demented song I will sing you
A classic of poetry and wit
Last night when I walked into my bathroom
I stepped in a big pile of
Chorus:
Shaving cream! Be nice and clean!
Shave every day and you'll alway look keen!
Last Monday we went to the playground
To try out my new catcher's mitt
I asked you to throw me a fastball
But you threw me a big lump of
(Chorus)
When I was in France with the Army
One day I looked into my kit
I thought I would find me a sandwich
But the darn thing was all full of
(Chorus)
I once sang this song in Seattle
I thought that my act was a hit
But when when I got through with my number
Well down came a shower of
(Chorus)
(Insatrumental Solo)
(Chorus)
Last Saturday I went out jogging
I like to keep physically fit
Bu when I took off my Adidas
The soles were all covered with
(Chorus)
Our baby fell out of the window
You'd think that her head would be split
But good luck was with her that morning
'Cause she landed in six feet of
(Chorus)
Here we are in this fancy French restaurant
I hate to be picking a nit,--
But waiter, I ordered cream fishy-swa! (sp?)
And you brought me a bowl filled with
(Chorus)
When broadcasting over the radio
There are certain words we must omit
Like <beep> and <buzz> and <boobledeuop>
By gosh, we can't even say
(Chorus)
And now folks my song it has ended
I think it is time I should quit
If any of you feel offended
Stick your head in a bucket of
(transcribed from the tape during a single playing of the song)
Incidentally, I heard this song as a kid quite a few years ago; Dr. Demento
neither wrote this song nor sang it first. As tasteful as Dr. Demento is,
he sure sounded like a dork when he sang this song; I much prefer the
original. Oh well.
Sean McAfee
smc...@jarthur.claremont.edu
Tim McDonough
>
>I remember the first verse only:
>
>I have a sad story to tell you,
>It may hurt your feelings a bit,
>Last night I walked into my bathroom,
>And stepped in a big pile of
>Sh - aving cream, be nice and clean
>Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
>
>What are the other verses?
>
A baby fell out of a window,
we thought that her head would be split!
But luck was with baby that day,
She fell in a big pile of...
Sh - aving cream, be nice and clean
Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
Any Others!!
-Tim
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Miss Lucy had a baby... but that's where MY memory ends...
help?
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This was a 'secret' girls song that a friend of mine told me in
fifth grade:
Tom, Dick, Harry...
Who should I marry?
I'll marry Tom, 'cause...
Tom's dick is hairy!
Great...I can remember THIS, but not my integral tables...
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>Actually, come to think of it, I heard it at camp as
> "There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance
> There's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all"
>
>and also as:
> "Oh they don't wear pants on the other side of France
> No they show it all on the other side of Gaul"
>
>or some such.
I remember as a kid the girls all singing something that may have gone to the
same "music" as the above:
"On the planet Mars, where the ladies smoke cigars
Every puff they take is enough to kill a snake
When the snake is dead, they put flowers on its head
When the flowers wilt, ... [memory fades, they do something else to the snake]
...
When the [something] [something], they put diamonds in its eyes
When the diamonds crack, they put mustard on its back
..."
-Mike
Einstuerzende Neubauten
>I seem to remember the Suzy and the Steamboat song as:
>Miss Lucy had a baby... but that's where MY memory ends...
>help?
>--
...Well, It's really funny. This morning, as I was waking up, much more of the
song came back to me. It now goes:
Miss Lucy had a baby,
His name was Tiny Tim,
She put him in the toilet,
to see if he could swim.
[. . . some lines possibly forgotten]
Miss Lucy called the doctor
The doctor called the nurse
[. . . Forgot the rest]
Anyone? Anyone?
S. Mudgett aka little gator
(Laurence Doering) writes:
>
> In article <1991Apr18....@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> bet...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth Fike) writes:
> >
two songs deleted
the way i learned it:
miss lucy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
miss lucy went to heaven
the stamboat went to
hello operator, oh give me number nine
and if you disconnect me
ill paddle your
behind the refridgerator
there was a piece of glass
miss lucy sat upon it
and broke her little
ask me no more questions
ill tell you no more lies
the boys are in the bathroom
zipping down their
flies are in the sugar bowl, shoo, shoo, shoo!
(laast line is spoken, not sung)
my mother remembers:
miss lucy had a steamboat
the steamboat had a bell
miss lucy went to heaven
the steamboat went "toot toot"
i remeber another verse of "miss mary mack", too, which began
miss mary mirple mirple mirple
all dressed in purple purple purple
with silver buttons buttons buttons
all down her girdle girdle girdle
and yet another simialr song:
miss lucy had a little dog his name was tiny tim
she put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim
he drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
he tried to swallow the bathtub but it wouldnt go now his throat
miss lucy called the doctor, the doctor called the nurse
the nurse called the lady with the alligator purse
in came in the doctor, in came the nurse
in came the lady with the alligator purse
out came the water
out came the soap
out came the bathtub that wouldnt go down his throat.
all this reminds me of ritual childhood teasing rhymes. anyone
remember any of these?
(name) is a dope, she ate a bar of soap,
bubbles here, bubbles there, bubbles in her underwear
(alternate last line-and died last night with a bubble in her throat)
and the classic"red, red, wet your bed, wipe it up with gingerbread."
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Andy Isbell
>In article <1991Apr19.1...@cs.cornell.edu> cha...@CS.Cornell.EDU (Richard Chapman) writes:
>>Okay, can anyone remember the lyrics to the "Shaving Cream" song?
>>
>>I remember the first verse only:
[first verse deleted]
>>What are the other verses?
>A baby fell out of a window,
>we thought that her head would be split!
>But luck was with baby that day,
>She fell in a big pile of...
>Sh - aving cream, be nice and clean
>Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
>Any Others!!
I think I remember a verse that I haven't seen in any of the other
posts. It went something like
An old lady died in her bathtub,
She died of a terrible fit.
In order to fulfill her wishes,
She was buried in six feet of
Shaving cream, be nice and clean,
Shave every day and you'll always look keen.
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In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to
drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at
discotheques.
-- Art Linkletter
SherrianLea
|> In article <1991Apr19.2...@midway.uchicago.edu> nw...@quads.uchicago.edu (Einstuerzende Neubauten) writes:
|> >I seem to remember the Suzy and the Steamboat song as:
|> >Miss Lucy had a baby... but that's where MY memory ends...
|> >help?
|> >--
|>
|> ...Well, It's really funny. This morning, as I was waking up, much more of the
|> song came back to me. It now goes:
|> Miss Lucy had a baby,
|> His name was Tiny Tim,
Growing up in Ohio, I learned it as
Miss Lucy had a baby
His name was Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
to see if he could swim
He drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap
He tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn't go down his throat
Miss Lucy called the doctor
Miss Lucy called the nurse
Miss Lucy called the lady
With the alligator purse.
"Mumps," said the doctor
"Measles," said the nurse
"Nothing," said the lady
With the alligator purse.
That's where I remeber it ending, but it's been fifteen years since I heard
it...
Andrew Shires
England):
Charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon, a pigeon
Charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon he had
It flew in the morning, it flew in the night
And when it came home it was covered in...
Charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon, a pigeon... etc!
The only other verse I can remember replaced "walked" with "flew" -- not very
imaginative really...
I've remembered about another one... the chorus was
Shine up your buttons with Brasso,
It's only three ha'pence a tin,
You can buy it or nick it from Woolies [dept. store]
Provided there's nobody in.
As I recall there are regional variations on the chorus. The chorus was used
for the same purpose as the "ask me no questions" and "shaving cream!" ones,
of course. I can't remember the verses though! Can anyone enlighten me?
As I recall it was about "my father" who had a job shovelling ... guess what?
And how they buried him in it...
Andrew
W. Scott Cranston
>In article <1991Apr19.1...@cs.cornell.edu> cha...@CS.Cornell.EDU (Richard Chapman) writes:
>>Okay, can anyone remember the lyrics to the "Shaving Cream" song?
>
>This is from my Dr. Demento "Dementia Royale" tape:
>
>
>(transcribed from the tape during a single playing of the song)
>
Here's another verse I remember:
A lady once died in her bathtub
She died of a terrible fit
And so to fulfill her last wishes
She was buried 'neath six feet of...
[chorus]
I have always considered this verse to be the most "gruesome."
-wsc
>
>Sean McAfee
>smc...@jarthur.claremont.edu
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PETER WANGERMANN
>
>I've remembered about another one... the chorus was
>
> Shine up your buttons with Brasso,
> It's only three ha'pence a tin,
> You can buy it or nick it from Woolies [dept. store]
> Provided there's nobody in.
>
>As I recall there are regional variations on the chorus.
North-west England variation of last line:
Cos Tescos aint got any in.
>
>Andrew
Peter.
Robin Faichney
chanted, rather than sung. I think there were probably many preceding
lines, but I don't think I ever heard them. The second was probably
longer too. I guess I was around 9 or 10 when I learned them. For the
right effect, pause at the..
(Those offended by 'bad language' might like to skip this. ;-)
Song.
Along came a woman who walked like a duck,
And said she'd invented a new way to..
Educate young children to read and to write,
While back in the cowshed they were shovelling the..
Contents of the cowshed from the back to the front,
And the milkmaid sat combing the hairs on her..
Head which were ten inches long,
And if you think this song's filthy,
You're fucking well wrong.
Poem.
The sun shone on the village green,
It shone on hoory Nell.
Was she waiting
For her true love?
Was she fucking hell.
In came Dirty Dick.
He worked aboard the lugger.
He wasna' fit
To shovel shit,
The dirty, lazy bugger.
One night he took her to his room,
And there did something awful.
The yoke of the egg
Ran down her leg,
And the smell was fucking awful.
Tim McDonough
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy at the swimin' pool.
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy at the swimin' pool.
Nancy swims just like a duck,
and when she swims she likes to (slight pause).
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy at the swimin' pool.
Buttons, Buttons, B-U-T-T-O-N-S.
Buttons, Buttons, B-U-T-T-O-N-S.
You can wear them on your back,
You can wear them on your front.
I even know a gal who has one on her (slight pause).
Buttons, Buttons, B-U-T-T-O-N-S.
Matches, Matches, M-A-T-C-H-E-S.
Matches, Matches, M-A-T-C-H-E-S.
You can light 'em on a zipper,
You can light 'em on glass.
I even know a guy who can light on (slight pause).
Evan Kirshenbaum
> Miss Lucy called the doctor
> The doctor called the nurse
> [. . . Forgot the rest]
With the alligator purse
But that's all I can remember of this one. The other
clapping/jumprope songs I remember are
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
She asked her mother mother mother
For fifty cents cents cents
To see the elephants elephants elephants
Jump over the fence fence fence.
They jumped so high high high
They reached the sky sky sky
And they didn't come down down down
'Til the fourth of July -ly -ly
and
Miss Suzy had a steamboat.
The steamboat had a bell.
Miss Suzy went to heaven
The steamboat went to [or maybe the steamboat went to heaven]
Hello, operator
Please get me number nine.
If you disconect me,
I'll kick you in your
Behind the 'fridgerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Suzy fell upon it
And broke her little
Ask me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
[and I don't remember how we ended it]
Also popular [there were no special activities with these]
Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
Just now I found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
Cracked it open...
It was rotten...
Ate it anyway...
[a few verses I don't remember about getting sick]
Died anyway...
Went to heaven...
[I think there were a couple more, possibly ending with "Found a peanut..."]
and
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die.
[more verses about eating various nasty critters]
For anybody interested in demographics, I was born in 1964 and grew up
on the north side of Chicago.
Evan Kirshenbaum
HP Laboratories
3500 Deer Creek Road, Building 26U
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Einstuerzende Neubauten
stick your head in GRA-vy
Wrap it up in bubble gum and
send you to the NA-vy!
Dan Berleant
>Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
^^^^^^^
Well which one is it, gopher or golfer?
Dan
Andrew Clayton
> There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
> I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die.
> [more verses about eating various nasty critters]
Ghods, this is stupid, but ...
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly
perhaps she'll die
I know an old lady who swallowed a spider
that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know what she swallowed the fly
perhaps she'll die
I know an old lady who swalled a cat
she swallowed the cat to catch the spider
that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know what she swallowed the fly
perhaps she'll die
I know an old lady who swallowed a dog
she swallowed the dog to catch the cat
she swallowed the cat to catch the spider
that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know what she swallowed the fly
perhaps she'll die
etc. etc.
Or something like that.
> For anybody interested in demographics, I was born in 1964 and grew up
> on the north side of Chicago.
I was born in 1958, and spent my first 10 years living in Batley, West Riding,
Yorkshire, England. I only ever heard this ditty in England though.
> Evan Kirshenbaum
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Lance Franklin
Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat, Perferated birdies feet,
Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
And I forgot my {straw, spoon}!
(the part in {} was changable, I recall)
Lance
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Jeff Stehman
> Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
> Mutilated monkey meat, Perferated birdies feet,
> Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
> And I forgot my {straw, spoon}!
>
> (the part in {} was changable, I recall)
Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Chopped up parakeet, mutilated monkey meat,
All ground up and served in a _________, [been too long]
Wish I had a straw...
--but I got a spoon.
Jeff Stehman
Lance Franklin
Forgive me...I was a terrible speller when I was a kid.
Oh, just remembered another one:
You'll wonder where the yellow went,
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.
But when your teeth are turning black,
You'll wish you had the yellow back.
And then I wrote: :-)
It's Howdy Doody Time,
It isn't worth a dime,
So turn to channel 9,
and we'll watch Frankenstein.
Ah yes, the joys of growing up glued to the TV screen.
bill nelson
You all are getting there - some lines were missing.
>I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
>I don't know why she swallowed a fly
>perhaps she'll die
(I learned "I guess she'll die")
>I know an old lady who swallowed a spider
>that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
>she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
>I don't know what she swallowed the fly
>perhaps she'll die
>I know an old lady who swalled a cat
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
>she swallowed the cat to catch the spider
>(etc)
>I know an old lady who swallowed a dog
What a hog, she swallowed a dog.
>she swallowed the dog to catch the cat
>(etc)
I know an old lady who swallowed a cow
I don't know how she swallowed a cow.
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog
etc.
I know an old lady who swallowed a horse
She died, of course.
I believe that is all there is to the song. My mother taught it to
me over 30 years ago.
Bill
Charles A. Licata
> ...BA-by, BA-by,
> stick your head in GRA-vy
> Wrap it up in bubble gum and
> send you to the NA-vy!
>
Where are you going...
Upstairs to take a Bath,
Da Da Da Da Da Da... (Ok, you can't sing it by reading it, but it was
something like Da, Da, Da).
[Name of Person],
With legs like toothpicks...
And a neck like a giraffe,
Da Da Da Da Da Da...
[Name of Person],
What are you doing...
Pulling the plug from the drain...
Oh No!
There she goes, down the hole. (Spoken not sung).
elizabeth
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
simulated monkey meat, little birdy's dirty feet,
cow slop, pig snot, all mixed in Wonder Bread,
and I forgot my spoon.
Hope none of y'all were eating :)
another non-Terry
EvilTwin
In article <1991Apr25....@hubcap.clemson.edu> ste...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jeff Stehman) writes:
>From article <3...@ncmicro.lonestar.org>, by l...@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin):
>> Mutilated monkey meat, Perferated birdies feet,
>> Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
>> And I forgot my {straw, spoon}!
>>
>> (the part in {} was changable, I recall)
>
> Chopped up parakeet, mutilated monkey meat,
> All ground up and served in a _________, [been too long]
> Wish I had a straw...
> --but I got a spoon.
>
> Jeff Stehman
Great green gobs, of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat, little boidies little feet.
And me without a spoon!
Oh well, I got a straw.
Slurp, slurp.
Semi-mis-remembered from "RAPE of the APE."
Tony "Trapped-in-Ag-Hell" EvilTwin
bac...@comphy.physics.orst.edu
>
>Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
>Mutilated monkey meat, Perferated birdies feet,
>Great green gobs of greasy grimy golpher guts,
>And I forgot my {straw, spoon}!
>
>(the part in {} was changable, I recall)
The way I heard it:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet,
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Eat without your spoon!
Yum, Yum!
>Lance
>--
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B. Bacher
Tim McDonough
Great Green Gobs Of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts,
Mutilated Monkey Meat, Perculated Birdy Feet.
Grasshopper Eyes Are Floating In A Pool Of Blood,
And I Forgot My Spoon!
cs170...@vger.nsu.edu
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In article <1909eb8d...@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>, d...@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
You guys left out some:
> In article <EVAN.91Ap...@hplerk.hpl.hp.com>, Evan Kirshenbaum writes:
>
>> There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
>> I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die.
>> [more verses about eating various nasty critters]
>
> Ghods, this is stupid, but ...
>
> I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
> I don't know why she swallowed a fly
> perhaps she'll die
>
> I know an old lady who swallowed a spider
> that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
> she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
> I don't know what she swallowed the fly
> perhaps she'll die
>
> I know an old lady who swalled a cat
Imagine that--to swallow a cat!
> she swallowed the cat to catch the spider
> that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
> she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
> I don't know what she swallowed the fly
> perhaps she'll die
>
> I know an old lady who swallowed a dog
What a hog, to swallow a dog!
> she swallowed the dog to catch the cat
> she swallowed the cat to catch the spider
> that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
> she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
> I don't know what she swallowed the fly
> perhaps she'll die
>
> etc. etc.
>
> Or something like that.
>
>> For anybody interested in demographics, I was born in 1964 and grew up
>> on the north side of Chicago.
>
Gregory G. Woodbury
school (Rhinebeck NY).
Great big gobs of greasy, grimy, gophers guts,
Mutilated Monkey meat,
Chopped up little birdies feet,
A half-pound jar of all-purpose Porpise blood,
And me without my spoon!
Then, of course, there is the ever popular "Did you ever think as the
hearse rolls by...."
--
Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC
UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...mcnc!wolves!ggw [use the maps!]
Domain: g...@cds.duke.edu ggw%wol...@mcnc.mcnc.org
[The line eater is a boojum snark! ] <standard disclaimers apply>
S. Mudgett aka little gator
(Andrew Clayton) writes:
i know an old lady who swallowed a goat
just opened in throat and in walked the goat.
she swallowed the goat to catvh the dog, etc.
i know an old lady who swallowed a cow
i dont know how she swallowed a cow. she swallowed the cow to cath the goat,etc.
i know an old lady who swallowed a horse....
(pause, then last line is spoken, not sung)
she's dead. of course.
>
> > For anybody interested in demographics, I was born in 1964 and grew up
> > on the north side of Chicago.
>
> I was born in 1958, and spent my first 10 years living in Batley, West Riding,
> Yorkshire, England. I only ever heard this ditty in England though.
>
> > Evan Kirshenbaum
>
> Dac
> --
> David Andrew Clayton. // _l _ _ d...@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au *or*|I post.I am.
> Canberra, Australia.\X/ (_](_l(_ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!d...@munnari.oz
i learned it in school, around 1964, in massachusetts. it was taught to
the class by a music teacher.
S. Mudgett aka little gator
>
> Oh, just remembered another one:
>
> You'll wonder where the yellow went,
> When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.
> But when your teeth are turning black,
> You'll wish you had the yellow back.
our family had an aunt named eleanor(still does, in fact), whom we
called "aunty ello". ive been told my older brother and sister used to sing
"you'll wonder where aunty ello went, when you brush your teeth with pepsodent."
Jeff Stehman
Yet another little diddy. I've always figured this one to be a
little more regional. I guess now's my chance to find out.
Burn the pickels, burn the lettuce
Shut up, lady, you upset us
All we ask is that you leave us alone
Have it our way at Burger King
Have it our way at Burger King
An alternate version uses Burger Queen.
Jeff Stehman
cs170...@vger.nsu.edu
> In article <3...@ncmicro.lonestar.org> l...@ncmicro.lonestar.org
> (Lance Franklin) writes:
>
>>
>> Oh, just remembered another one:
And so did I. How many folks remember the old commercial theme song for
Oreo cookies:
Little girls have pretty curls,
But I like Oreos.
Oreos
The Best Because
Best Darn Cookie
Ever Was....
Girls are nice,
But Oh what icing
On my Oreos
(Repeat chorus)
Jean
/s
Scott Coleman
You're right - I never heard of that one!
Try this, sung to the tune of a long-forgotten McDonald's jungle:
McDonald's is your kind of place
They'll throw a milkshake in your face
They'll stick french fries up your nose
And stuff pickles between your toes
Next time you go there
They'll fry your underwear
McDonald's is your kind of place!
Melanie Lotocky
>
> Oh, just remembered another one:
>
> You'll wonder where the yellow went,
> When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.
> But when your teeth are turning black,
> You'll wish you had the yellow back.
Okay, what about the Comet song?
Comet, it makes your teeth turn green
Comet, it smells like gasoline
Comet will make you vomit
So buy some Comet and vomit today!
and are there others who remember this one (other verses?)
Suffocation, let's play suffocation
Suffocation, the game we like to play
First you take a rubber hose
Then you put it up your nose
Turn it on, then you're gone
Wheeeeeeeee!
Suffocation, let's play suffocation
Suffocation, the game we like to play!
Melanie.
J Gillespie
> And so did I. How many folks remember the old commercial theme song for
>Oreo cookies:
>
[...]
What about Lonnie Mack's "Oreo Cookie Blues"? Great song.
--
James Gillespie, /~~~~~~~~\ Every American citizen has a chance of
Edinburgh University / @ @ \ becoming president. But that's just a
ja...@ed.ac.uk / < \ risk they have to take.
____________________/ \________/ \__________________________________________
S. Mudgett aka little gator
(Melanie Lotocky) writes:
>
> and are there others who remember this one (other verses?)
>
> Suffocation, let's play suffocation
> Suffocation, the game we like to play
> First you take a rubber hose
> Then you put it up your nose
> Turn it on, then you're gone
> Wheeeeeeeee!
> Suffocation, let's play suffocation
> Suffocation, the game we like to play!
>
>
> Melanie.
first you take a plastic bag
then you put it on your head
go to bed
wake up dead....
W. Scott Cranston
Around the corner...and under a tree
The seargent major...once said to me,
"Who would marry so-and-so, I really want to know?
Whenever I see his face, UGH, it makes me want to go..."
Around the corner...and under a tree
.....
This would be sung ad weepium (i.e. until the kid started to cry) to
the current victim.
-wsc
--
Like a bird on a wire, | Polite corrections to my grammar and
like a drunk in a midnight choir, | spelling are, as always, welcome.
I have tried, in my way, to be free. | cran...@cadence.com
-Leonard Cohen | (900) 934 0217 - $19.95 per minute
Alan Fleming
>In article <EVAN.91Ap...@hplerk.hpl.hp.com>, Evan Kirshenbaum posts:
>> There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
>> I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die.
>> [more verses about eating various nasty critters]
>
>Yorkshire, England. I only ever heard this ditty in England though.
Pretty scary, but I've heard this sang as a "folk song" quite a number of
times by local Irish singers. I've always assumed it was about as Irish as
that damned Unicorn song that gets played four times a night.
- Alan
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