Anybody ever hear of song "Miss Suzy had a steamboat...?"
Melonbll
I realize I may be in the wrong newsgroup here & I apologize for that, but
I'm trying to locate origins of song that goes either: "Miss Suzy had a
steamboat, The steamboat had a bell. Miss Suzy went to Heaven. The
steamboat went to Hello operator..." OR Miss Sue from Alabama. Her name
is Suzyanna. Sittin' in a rocker eating Betty Crocker..."
I'm putting together a recording project & I don't want to violate
anyone's copyright. Any info. anyone could provide re: origins or a good
place to research this would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at
Melo...@aol.com. Thanks.
Susan Mudgett aka little gator
Melonbll (melo...@aol.com) wrote:
: I'm putting together a recording project & I don't want to violate
: anyone's copyright. Any info. anyone could provide re: origins or a good
: place to research this would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at
: Melo...@aol.com. Thanks.
My mother knew one variation of this song when she was a little girl
in the early 1930s, so it's at least that old. Most versions I know
are about "MIss Lucy"
In addition to the steamboat, theres the one (with the same tune)that
begins: Miss Lucy had a little dog, his name was Tiny Tim. She put him
in the bathtub, to see if he could swim.
Gail Mara Gurman
>>>>> "Susan" == Susan Mudgett aka little gator <s...@harvee.billerica.ma.us> writes:
Susan> Melonbll (melo...@aol.com) wrote:
Susan> : I'm putting together a recording project & I don't want to violate
Susan> : anyone's copyright. Any info. anyone could provide re: origins or a good
Susan> : place to research this would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me at
Susan> : Melo...@aol.com. Thanks.
Susan> My mother knew one variation of this song when she was a little girl
Susan> in the early 1930s, so it's at least that old. Most versions I know
Susan> are about "MIss Lucy"
Susan> In addition to the steamboat, theres the one (with the same tune)that
Susan> begins: Miss Lucy had a little dog, his name was Tiny Tim. She put him
Susan> in the bathtub, to see if he could swim.
I knew two versions as a kid. I doubt they're copyrighted, and I'm
willing to take the chance:
Version 1:
Miss Lucy had a tugboat
The tugboat had a bell
Miss Lucy went to heaven
And the tugboat went to...
Hello operator
Give me number nine
And if you disconnect me
I'll cut off your...
Behind the 'frigerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it
And it went right up her...
Ask me no more questions
Tell me no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Pulling up their...
Flies are in the country
Bees are in the park
The boys and girls are kissing
In the D-A-R-K, dark, dark, dark
Version 2:
Miss Lucy had a baby
His name was Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim
[Something about the baby going down the drain or something]
Miss Lucy called the doctor
Miss Lucy called the nurse
Miss Luce called the lady
With the aligator purse
In went the doctor [or something like that]
In went the nurse
In went the lady
With the aligator purse
I'm not as sure about the second one as the first. Incidentally,
both of these were done to "handclaps" as was another song with the
same melody:
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see
And all that he could see, see, see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea
A sailor went to {Hong Kong, Mexico, etc.}
To see what he could {Hong Kong, Mexico, etc.}
And all that he could {Hong Kong, Mexico, etc.}
Was the bottom of the deep blue {Hong Kong, Mexico, etc.}
(Each place was accompanied by some stereotypical gesture.)
--
Gail Gurman | email: Gail....@Sybase.com
Sybase Server Tech Pubs | phone: (510) 922-0194
LD1952
In article <uidn2yy...@sybase.com>, Gail Mara Gurman
<gail....@sybase.com> writes:
>Miss Lucy had a baby
>His name was Tiny Tim
>She put him in the bathtub
>To see if he could swim
> [Something about the baby going down the drain or something]
The missing verse is: He drank up all the water and he ate 4 bars of
soap, and now Miss Lucy's baby is learning how to float, float, float,
float, float!
Gail Mara Gurman
>>>>> "LD1952" == LD1952 <ld1...@aol.com> writes:
LD1952> In article <uidn2yy...@sybase.com>, Gail Mara Gurman
LD1952> <gail....@sybase.com> writes:
>> Miss Lucy had a baby
>> His name was Tiny Tim
>> She put him in the bathtub
>> To see if he could swim
>> [Something about the baby going down the drain or something]
LD1952> The missing verse is: He drank up all the water and he ate 4 bars of
LD1952> soap, and now Miss Lucy's baby is learning how to float, float, float,
LD1952> float, float!
Perhaps in your version, but I don't recognize that verse. Hmm.
Susan Mudgett aka little gator
Gail Mara Gurman (gail....@sybase.com) wrote:
: I knew two versions as a kid. I doubt they're copyrighted, and I'm
: willing to take the chance:
: Version 1: almost identical to the one I knew, but I have to add the
parody my mother learned as a kid:
Miss lucy had a steamboat,
the steamboat had a bell
Miss Lucy went to heaven
The steamboat went "toot toot."
: Version 2:
IN my version Tiny Tim was a "little dog."
: 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 swallow the bathtub
But it wouldnt go down his throat.
Hillary Brown
In article <511oo1$n...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, melo...@aol.com (Melonbll)
wrote:
> I realize I may be in the wrong newsgroup here & I apologize for that, but
> I'm trying to locate origins of song that goes either: "Miss Suzy had a
> steamboat, The steamboat had a bell. Miss Suzy went to Heaven. The
> steamboat went to Hello operator..." OR Miss Sue from Alabama. Her name
> is Suzyanna. Sittin' in a rocker eating Betty Crocker..."
Here's one I remember from camp:
Miss Sue, Miss Sue,
Miss Sue from Alabama
Sittin' in a rocker,
Eating Betty Crocker,
Watching the clock go
Tick, tock, ticktock phenomena
Tick, tock, ticktock phenomena
A,B,C,D,E,F,G
Wipe those spots right off of me,
Mucha, mucha, mucha -- Freeze!
--
You say Carmina, and I say Carmine-a
You say Burah-na, and I say Burana
Carmina, Carmine-a, Burah-na, Burana
Let's Carl the whole thing Orff
P HOLM63
Hi! - I remember this song as a type of "handclap" game I used to play
when I was in 1st & 2nd grade, around 1969. 70 - there was also another
one played with the same handclaps that went
Say say oh playmate
Come out and play with me
something something
Climb up my apple tree
Slide down my rain barrel
In through my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forever more, more more
It's been great reading everyone's posts to the words to these songs -
does anyone know if little girls still play this game?
Please post complete lyrics when done - I still remember the alligator
purse part!
Jim Horan
Heres the way I remember "playmate." My daughter used to sing this c. 1983
Say, say oh playmate,
Won't you come play with me.
Please bring your dollies three.
Climb up my apple tree.
Cry down my rain barrel.
Slide down my cellar door,
And we'll be jolly friends
forever more, more, more.
Say, say oh playmate,
I cannot play with you.
My dollies have the flu.
They might throw up on you.
I have no rain barrel.
I have no cellar door,
but we'll be jolly friends
forever more, more, more.
It has a great melody that goes with it. I figure the line about the
rainbarrel refers to shouting down a barrel to hear the echo-y effect.
-Jim H.
Hillary Brown
In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.96091...@monroe.lib.mi.us>, Jim
Horan <jho...@monroe.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> Heres the way I remember "playmate." My daughter used to sing this c. 1983
>
> Say, say oh playmate,
> Won't you come play with me.
> Please bring your dollies three.
> Climb up my apple tree.
> Cry down my rain barrel.
> Slide down my cellar door,
> And we'll be jolly friends
> forever more, more, more.
The parody I remember singing (yes, it's sick, but we were kids):
Say say, my enemy
come out and fight with me
And bring your dragons three
Climb up my poison tree
Slide down my razor blade
And through my dungeon door,
And we'll be jolly enemies,
Forever more, more, shut the dungeon door.
I also remember:
Down by the banks of the hanky panky
where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank
with an eep, opp
oo-sopp-a-diddly and a kerplop!
I'm a nut
In a hut
I stole an apple from the tree so what
I'm craazy
I'm foooolish,
I'm crazy, I'm foolish, I'm crazy, I'm foolish
So what!
ABC
Easy as 123
My mama says Do Re Mi
Ooh, Ah, want a piece of pie
Pie too sweet, want a piece of meat,
Meat too lean(?), want a jelly bean
Jelly bean not cooked, want to read a book,
Book not read, want to go to bed,
Bed not made, want some lemonade,
Lemonade too sour -- now we got some pucker power!
Down down baby,
Down by the roller coaster
Sweet sweet baby
I don't want to let you go,
Shimmy shimmy koko pop
Shimmy shimmy pow (repeat these two lines)
Grandma, grandma sick in bed
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
Grandma, grandma you're not sick
All you need is a good night kick
Theresa Brandon
Does anyone know the words this song we sang in girl scouts?
As I was walking down the street
One dark and dreary day,
I came upon a billboard
where much to my dismay,
the sign was torn and tattered
from a storm the night before...
( )
( )
Smoke Coca-cola cigarettes,
Drink Wrigley Spearmint Beer,
( )
will make your complexion clear.
Simonize your baby
with a Hershey Candy Bar,
...
Thanks!
Theresa
http://www.2boys1girl.com/artists/thbrandon
"Do not fail, as you go on,
to draw something every day,
for no matter how little it is
it will be well worthwhile,
and it will do you a world of good."
Ceninni
Theresa Brandon
Michelle Carman
Since the oringial post never showed up on my server and noone quoted it
in their reply I am assuming this question was actually about what the
subject heading is. I don't remember a song that started as Miss Suzy...the
one I remember from elementary school was Miss Molly had a steamboat. Following
is the song that I know.
Miss Molly had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Molly and her steamboat went to
Hello operator give me number nine
If you disconnect me I'll kick you
right behind the frigerator there lays a piece of glass
Miss Molly sat upon it and cut her little
Ask me no more questions
tell me no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom playing with their
flies are in the meadow
bees are in the park
Miss Molly and her boyfriend are kissing in the
d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k, dark
I think we always remembered it because it sounds sort of naughty to kids:)
Hope this helps
Michelle
Jessica Ambats
>
>ABC
>Easy as 123
>My mama says Do Re Mi
>Ooh, Ah, want a piece of pie
>Pie too sweet, want a piece of meat,
>Meat too lean(?), want a jelly bean
>Jelly bean not cooked, want to read a book,
>Book not read, want to go to bed,
>Bed not made, want some lemonade,
>Lemonade too sour -- now we got some pucker power!
I remember this as:
Uno, dos, tres
My mama told me 6 years ago
there was an old lady knocking at the door
singing 'ooh ah,want a piece a pie
pie too sweet, want a piece of meat,
meat too tough, want to ride a bus,
bus too full, want to ride a bull,
bull too fat, want my money back
money too green, want a jelly bean
bean too red, want to go to bed
so shut your eyes and count to ten
and if you miss start over again
(then we'd the clapping with eyes closed
while counting to ten)
>Down down baby,
>Down by the roller coaster
>Sweet sweet baby
>I don't want to let you go,
>Shimmy shimmy koko pop
>Shimmy shimmy pow (repeat these two lines)
>Grandma, grandma sick in bed
>Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
>Grandma, grandma you're not sick
>All you need is a good night kick
Our version changed after:
Grandma, grandma sick in bed
Called the doctor and the doctor said,
Let's get the rythmn of the head
ding dong
Let's get the rythmn of the feet
stomp stomp
Let's get the rythmn of the hands
clap clap
....
Put it all together and what do you get
ding dong, stomp stomp, clap clap....
Gail Mara Gurman
Susan> : Miss Lucy had a baby
Susan> : His name was Tiny Tim
Susan> : She put him in the bathtub
Susan> : To see if he could swim
Susan> He drank up all the water
Susan> He ate up all the soap
Susan> He tried to swallow the bathtub
Susan> But it wouldnt go down his throat.
Yes, that sounds right to me, 'cept that "swallow" doesn't scan. I
think it was "eat" instead.
LD1952
In article <nbt926-1209...@aragorn175.nuts.nwu.edu>,
nbt...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Hillary Brown) writes:
>Ooh, Ah, want a piece of pie
>Pie too sweet, want a piece of meat,
>Meat too lean(?), want a jelly bean
>Jelly bean not cooked, want to read a book,
>Book not read, want to go to bed,
>Bed not made, want some lemonade,
>Lemonade too sour -- now we got some pucker power!
>
>
I have this one memorized because I once worked in a children's ICU where
this was on a record, and it ground away incessantly, since the physical
therapist had some sort of fixation on it:
Oh my! I want a piece of pie.
The pie's too sweet
I need a piece of meat.
The meat's too red
I want a piece of bread.
The bread's too brown
I'll have to go to town.
The town's too far
I need to take my car.
The car won't go
I fell and stubbed my toe!
My toe's got a pain
I need to take a train.
The train had a wreck
I nearly broke my neck!
Oh, my. No more pie!
20 years later, it is still firmly cemented in my brain cells! Holly
Hillary Brown
In article <51c62f$f...@park.interport.net>, Jessica Ambats
<j...@newyork.ckor.com> wrote:
>
> >Down down baby,
> >Down by the roller coaster
> >Sweet sweet baby
> >I don't want to let you go,
> >Shimmy shimmy koko pop
> >Shimmy shimmy pow (repeat these two lines)
> >Grandma, grandma sick in bed
> >Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
> >Grandma, grandma you're not sick
> >All you need is a good night kick
>
> Our version changed after:
>
> Grandma, grandma sick in bed
> Called the doctor and the doctor said,
> Let's get the rythmn of the head
> ding dong
> Let's get the rythmn of the feet
> stomp stomp
> Let's get the rythmn of the hands
> clap clap
> ....
> Put it all together and what do you get
> ding dong, stomp stomp, clap clap....
And on the show Gullah Gullah island they add,
Let's get the rhythm of the hot dog (and on "hot dog" they swivel their
hips around).
Here's some more from summer camp, afterschool programs, etc...
Shay shay kule (each line the leader chants is repeated by the group)
Shay kofisa
Kofsilala
Alakilala
She -- ayende
She -- ayende
Leader: One
Group: Two
(And so forth up to ten)
Fried ham, fried ham
Cheese and baloney
After the macaroni,
we'll have onions, pickels, and pretzels
And then we'll have some more fried ham
Fried ham, fried ham!
Second verse, same as the first
[insert style here -- opera, for example] style, whole lot worse...
Hillary Brown
In article <51blok$q...@news-e2c.gnn.com>, ThBr...@gnn.com (Theresa
Brandon) wrote:
> Does anyone know the words this song we sang in girl scouts?
>
> As I was walking down the street
> One dark and dreary day,
> I came upon a billboard
> where much to my dismay,
> the sign was torn and tattered
> from a storm the night before...
> ( )
> ( )
> Smoke Coca-cola cigarettes,
> Drink Wrigley Spearmint Beer,
Kennel-ration dog food
> ( )
> will make your complexion clear.
>
> Simonize your baby
> with a Hershey Candy Bar,
> ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Theresa
>
> http://www.2boys1girl.com/artists/thbrandon
>
>
> ThBr...@gnn.com
>
> "Do not fail, as you go on,
> to draw something every day,
> for no matter how little it is
> it will be well worthwhile,
> and it will do you a world of good."
> Ceninni
--
Jan E. Baker
As a music teacher who uses lots of rhymes and hand clapping games, I
love it when someone tells their favorite! The one referred to below
is actually based on an African singing game from Ghana (Some of you
may not care :)) I found it interesting that someone had a variation
from camp.
Words printed in music books are Che Che Koolay,Che Che kofeesa, Kofee
salanga, kakashee langa, koommadyeday
>Here's some more from summer camp, afterschool programs, etc...
>>
>Shay shay kule (each line the leader chants is repeated by the group)
>Shay kofisa
>Kofsilala
>Alakilala
>She -- ayende
>She -- ayende
>Leader: One
>Group: Two
>(And so forth up to ten)
>
>Fried ham, fried ham
>Cheese and baloney
>After the macaroni,
>we'll have onions, pickels, and pretzels
>And then we'll have some more fried ham
>Fried ham, fried ham!
>Second verse, same as the first
>[insert style here -- opera, for example] style, whole lot worse...
>
DId all of this go together? Just curious--did you sing it or say it?
And I know jumping motions to it. What did you learn with it? Jan
Hillary Brown
In article <51l3i1$r...@newshost.cyberramp.net>, jeb...@cyberramp.net (Jan
E. Baker) wrote:
> As a music teacher who uses lots of rhymes and hand clapping games, I
> love it when someone tells their favorite! The one referred to below
> is actually based on an African singing game from Ghana (Some of you
> may not care :)) I found it interesting that someone had a variation
> from camp.
>
> Words printed in music books are Che Che Koolay,Che Che kofeesa, Kofee
> salanga, kakashee langa, koommadyeday
> >Fried ham, fried ham
> >Cheese and baloney
> >After the macaroni,
> >we'll have onions, pickels, and pretzels
> >And then we'll have some more fried ham
> >Fried ham, fried ham!
> >Second verse, same as the first
> >[insert style here -- opera, for example] style, whole lot worse...
> >
>
> DId all of this go together? Just curious--did you sing it or say it?
> And I know jumping motions to it. What did you learn with it? Jan
Oops -- I should have clarified that. The fried ham thing is a totally
different song.
As for "Che Che Koolay," I learned that when I did children's theatre work
in college and worked with afterschool/community center programs. What we
did with the song is teach it to the kids and as they got comfortable with
it got them to lead the group in singing/chanting it, so the movements
were left sort of freeform to encourage creativity.
Hillary
K.T.D.
Gail Mara Gurman wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Susan" == Susan Mudgett aka little gator <s...@harvee.billerica.ma.us> writes:
> Susan> Gail Mara Gurman (gail....@sybase.com) wrote:
> Susan> : Miss Lucy had a baby
> Susan> : His name was Tiny Tim
> Susan> : She put him in the bathtub
> Susan> : To see if he could swim
> Susan> He drank up all the water
> Susan> He ate up all the soap
> Susan> He tried to swallow the bathtub
> Susan> But it wouldnt go down his throat.
>
> Yes, that sounds right to me, 'cept that "swallow" doesn't scan. I
> think it was "eat" instead.
My daughter sang:
I had a little turtle,
His name was Tiny Tim,
I put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water,
He ate up all the soap,
And now he's sick in bed
With a bubble in his throat.
When I was in junior high school, we sang this to the same tune:
Mary had a steamboat,
The steamboat had a bell,
Mary went to heaven,
And the steamboat went to
Hello, operator,
Give me number 9,
And if you don't, I'll kick you,
Right in the
Behind the 'frigerator,
There was some broken glass,
Mary fell upon it,
And broke her little
Ask me no more questions,
I'll tell you no more lies,
(and I can't remember the rest!)
Oh well, I dont' know if this is what you had in mind or not!
Karen
P HOLM63
This has turned out so interestingly! I remember a little song my mom
said her grandfather used to sing to her that went:
My mom gave me a nickel
To buy a pickle
I didn't buy a pickle
I bought some chewing gum
Chew chew chew chew chew
How I love chewing gum
You should have heard her holler
When I bought chewing gum
Does anyone else know this song? It made me think of the pushcart markets
in New York at the turn of the century, which is possible where her
grandfather learned it
P HOLM63
Laurie M. Campbell
Hillary Brown wrote:
> Here's some more from summer camp, afterschool programs, etc...
>
> Shay shay kule (each line the leader chants is repeated by the group)
> Shay kofisa
> Kofsilala
> Alakilala
> She -- ayende
> She -- ayende
> Leader: One
> Group: Two
> (And so forth up to ten)
Sharon, Lois & Bram sang this on one of their records. It's a song from
Ghana. I was studying the Bible with a Ghanian woman and I played it
for her. She was thrilled to hear it again.
Laurie
Hillary Brown
> This has turned out so interestingly! I remember a little song my mom
> said her grandfather used to sing to her that went:
>
> My mom gave me a nickel
> To buy a pickle
> I didn't buy a pickle
> I bought some chewing gum
> Chew chew chew chew chew
> How I love chewing gum
> You should have heard her holler
> When I bought chewing gum
Version I learned"
My mother gave me a penny,
She told me to see Jack Benny
But I didn't see Jack Benny
Instead I bought bubble gum
Chorus: A rumba, rumba, bubble gum (repeat 3 times)
Instead I bought bubble gum
My mother gave me a nickel,
She told me to buy a pickle...
Chorus
My mother gave me a dime,
She told me to be a lime...
beetle
miss susie had a baby
she named him 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 would've ate the bathtub
but it wouldn't go down his throat
miss susie called the doctor
the doctor called the nurse
the nurse, she called the lady with the aligator purse
"pennicilin" said the doctor
"[some other medicine]" said the nurse
"pizza" said the lady with the aligator purse
miss susie gave him peaches
miss susie gave him pears
miss susie gave him 50 cents and sent him up the stairs!
Elizabeth Thomsen
We sang this with various verses, each ending in "I bought some chewing
gum!" and the chorus "Chew-chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum, I bought some
chewing gum, [repeat]"
Actually, I think it was a nickel to buy a pickle, a dime to [I forget
what], and a quarter to tip the porter [I had no idea what a porter was,
but I envisioned it as a sort of barrel, picturing someone "tipping" it
to pour out some mysterious substance.]
Elizabeth
nancy g.
P HOLM63 wrote:
> This has turned out so interestingly! I remember a little song my mom
> said her grandfather used to sing to her that went:
> My mom gave me a nickel
> To buy a pickle
(snip)
> Does anyone else know this song? It made me think of the pushcart markets
> in New York at the turn of the century, which is possible where her
> grandfather learned it
The version I heard dated back to possibly the 1940's, since it talks about
"Jack Benny." My kids learned it from a local children's entertainer who
visits the elementary schools in our area. It's been several years, but
I remember some of the way he sang this song:
My mother gave me a penny
She told me to see Jack Benny
But I didn't see Jack Benny
Instead, I bought bubble gum!
And then the chorus, which sounded something like
"I yumble yumbow bb-bble gmmmm..."
(I don't remember the exact words, if I ever
understood them ... but he had the kids all
sing along as if they had a mouth full of
bubble gum! Don't know if this was part
of the original song or his own invention)
The rest of the verses continued, one for each coin:
My mother gave me a nickel
She told me to buy a pickle
But I didn't buy a pickle
Instead I bought bubble gum!
(chorus)
My mother gave me a dime
She told me to buy a lime
But I didn't ... etc.
(chorus)
My mother gave me a quarter
She told me to tip the porter (another sign that this is an oldie!)
But I didn't ... etc.
(chorus)
My mother gave me a half dollar
She told me I should call her
But I didn't ... etc.
(chorus)
Nancy G.
wondering who else has heard this one
Susan C. Mitchell
Elizabeth Thomsen (lib...@world.std.com) wrote:
: We sang this with various verses, each ending in "I bought some chewing
I actually *had* a recording of this song! It was on an old 78 rpm
record (back in the late '60s and early '70s many record players were
still manufactured with a 78-rpm setting, and you could find old 78s for
a dime at the Salvation Army store), and the title was given as "Choo'n
Gum." That version went:
My mom gave me a nickel
To buy a pickle
I didn't buy the pickle
I bought some chewing gum.
Chew-chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum,
I'm crazy over chewing gum,
I chew, chew, chew.
My aunt gave me a quarter
For soda water
I didn't buy the water
I bought some chewing gum.
Chew-chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum,
I'm crazy over chewing gum,
What can I do?
BRIDGE:
I'd chew the day away, it seems
I'm even blowing bubbles in my dreams
My pop gave me a dollar
To buy a collar
You should heard him holler
When I bought chewing gum.
Chew-chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum,
I'm crazy over chewing gum,
I chew, chew, chewing gum.
I don't believe it. I can still remember every single word of that damn
song. This may be the most terrifying moment of my life.
I am relieved to report that while I remember that the song on the flip
side was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," I can remember only brief
snatches of *that* song.
Think globally, act locally.
Susan
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Christie E. Burke
In article <51t62d$f...@news.xroads.com>, sus...@dogbert.xroads.com (Susan C. Mitchell) writes:
> Elizabeth Thomsen (lib...@world.std.com) wrote:
> : We sang this with various verses, each ending in "I bought some chewing
> : gum!" and the chorus "Chew-chew-chew-chew-chew chewing gum, I bought some
> : chewing gum, [repeat]"
Re: chewing gum... does any one remember
"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
When your mother says don't chew it, do you do so just for spite?"
...more? This was really even before my time, and my sisters used to sing it.
I suppose they (or my mother) might have made it up.
Christie :)
cbu...@macalester.edu
Discordia
>Christie :)
>cbu...@macalester.edu
"Can you catch it on your tonsils, and heave from left to right
Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?"
This has been recorded as a novelty song--I can't think of the artist
offhand, may be Alan Sherman or somebody. You might post this on
rec.arts.music.dementia, the song is a favorite on the Dr.Demento
radio show, and someone there is sure to have specifics if you want
the words or a copy of the music.
Parents can be so goofy: I was probably 15 before I realized the song
my dad always sang as "Don't throw big rocks at me" was really "Don't
throw bouquets at me" a line from "People will say we're in love" from
OKLAHOMA. I like my dad's version better.
Beth DeGeer
Anne Hunt
> Re: chewing gum... does any one remember
>
> "Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
> When your mother says don't chew it, do you do so just for spite?"
>
> ...more? This was really even before my time, and my sisters used to sing it.
> I suppose they (or my mother) might have made it up.
>
> Christie :)
> cbu...@macalester.edu
Was this not a song recorded by Lonnie Donigan in the mid 50's??? He also
sang My Old Man's A Dustman too.
Ann Hunt
Hillary Brown
In article <528ph9$o...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
cz...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anne Hunt) wrote:
It was. I have it on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary anthology.
nancy g.
Discordia wrote:
(snip of other comments by other people)
> This has been recorded as a novelty song--I can't think of the artist
> offhand, may be Alan Sherman or somebody.
It was Lonnie Donegan. (Or was it Donnie Lonegan?) (grin)
> You might post this on
> rec.arts.music.dementia, the song is a favorite on the Dr.Demento
> radio show (snip)
I just happened to have a bunch of lyric-finding pages in my bookmarks
file (my kids love goofy songs almost as much as they love to read, so
my bookmarks file is stuffed with URL's for both) and went to the
Dr. Demento lyrics page:
http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/lyrics.html
To my surprise, "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor" was *NOT* one of
the many songs listed!
However, there's a great page which is itself just a listing of
other lyrics pages. I'm sure if you check here
http://www.kw.igs.net/~wgarvin/Lyrics/OtherSites.html
you'd manage to find SOMEWHERE that will give those lyrics, as well
as many others to old songs you thought you'd forgotten all about.
Warning: this page and the others it links to can turn into one of
those brain-sucking-black-hole-time-wasters; do NOT go browsing there
if you only have a "few minutes" to spend on line!
Nancy G.
so many URL's, so little time ...