There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza
LauraGillenwater
Dear Liza?" I'm particularly interested in what she tells him to fix it
with.
Thanks!
P.S. I sent this message earlier today and it disappeared. Does anyone
know why?
LauraGillenwater
Janice MacDonald Mant
>From: LauraGillenwater <twor...@pop3.nfi.com>
>Subject: There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza
>Date: 30 Jan 1996 22:03:00 GMT
>Thanks!
With straw, dear William
With what shall I cut it
With a knife, dear William
The knife is too dull
Then sharpen it,
How shall I sharpen it
On the wheel, dear William
With what shall I wet it
With water, dear WIlliam
And how shall I fetch it
With the bucket, dear WIlliam
THERE"S A HOLE IN THE BUCKET
Tom Morgan
> Dear Liza, Dear Liza? I'm particularly interested in what she tells him
> to fix it with.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
--
Tom
Ginger Kaderabek
wrote:
>Does anyone know the lyrics to "There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza,
>Dear Liza?" I'm particularly interested in what she tells him to fix it
>with.
>
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza my own.
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry my own.
With what shall I fix it ...
With straw...
But the straw is too dry...
Then wet it ...
With what shall I wet it ...
With water ..
With what shall I fetch it ...
With a bucket ...
There's a hole in the bucket .... ad infinitum
Rich Ingle
>
> Does anyone know the lyrics to "There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza,
> Dear Liza?" I'm particularly interested in what she tells him to fix it
> with.
>
>
> P.S. I sent this message earlier today and it disappeared. Does anyone
> know why?
I believe it goes something like this...
Fix it with a straw.
The straw is too long...
Well cut it... with what shall I cut it...
With an axe... the axe is too dull...
Well sharpen it... with what shall I sharpen it...
With a rock... the rock is too dry...
Well wet it... with what shall I wet it...
With water... and how shall I fetch it...
With a bucket... there's a hole in the bucket.
Hope that helps. By the way, who recorded this? I heard it ONCE over
30 years ago (yes this is from memory) and never knew who made the
record.
Rich Ingle
A.J. Davis
dwy...@melbpc.org.au (Peter Dwyer) wrote:
>"I'm particularly interested in what she tells him to fix
it with."
>
>With a straw ....
i have a french version (perhaps a recent translation ?) -
it's straw in that too.
Andrew
Andrew Davis
University of Leeds, Yorkshire
England, LS2 9JT UK
a.j....@uk.ac.leeds
Peter Dwyer
With a straw dear Henry - and this always had me mystified.
It goes something like:
"There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza etc..
Then fix it dear Henry....
With what shall I fix it....
With a straw...
The straw is too long...
Well cut it dear Henry
With what shall I cut it....
With an axe...
The axe is too dull...
Well sharpen it...
With what shall I sharpen it....
With a stone...
The stone is too dry....
Well wet it.....
With what shall I wet it....
Try water dear Henry....
In what shall I fetch it....
In a bucket....
There's a hole in the bucket...." sorry it's the Readers Digest abbreviated
version - I get a cramp from typing!
The only song I've ever known to go on for longer was Alice's Resaurant and I
made the grave mistake I admitting to a coffee lounge patron some 25 years ago
that I knew the chords.. he sang the whole song.... I learned my lesson that
night <g>
Peter Dwyer
Calcarea
listen to a version by a band called "Spearhead." It's called "Hole in the
Bucket," and it's a _wonderful_ modern treatment of the song.
Cheers,
Julie
Janice MacDonald Mant
>From: Rich Ingle <485-...@mcimail.com>
>Subject: Re: There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:46:14 -0800
>LauraGillenwater wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know the lyrics to "There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza,
>> Dear Liza?"
. By the way, who recorded this? I heard it ONCE over
>30 years ago (yes this is from memory) and never knew who made the
>record.
>Rich Ingle
Harry Belafonte recorded the only version I know.
Yet Another Steve
<twor...@pop3.nfi.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know the lyrics to the song "There's a Hole in the Bucket,
> Dear Liza, Dear Liza? I'm particularly interested in what she tells him
> to fix it with.
"With a straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a straw, dear Henry, with a
straw!"
I think that's Odetta, isn't it?
Steve
Abby Sale
wrote:
>Does anyone know the lyrics to the song "There's a Hole in the Bucket,
>Dear Liza, Dear Liza? I'm particularly interested in what she tells him
>to fix it with.
A straw. Sexual reference, of course.
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Yet Another Steve
(Janice MacDonald Mant) wrote:
> In article <310FB8...@mcimail.com> Rich Ingle <485-...@mcimail.com>
writes:
> . By the way, who recorded this? I heard it ONCE over
> >30 years ago (yes this is from memory) and never knew who made the
> >record.
>
> Harry Belafonte recorded the only version I know.
I *think* it's on Rhino's TROUBADOURS OF THE FOLK ERA compilation, isn't it?
Steve
EllenBass
(or not so modern) "telephone" game. Call me dim, but why is "straw" a
sexual reference?
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EllenBass
"In the day to day, in the face to face, I've got to act as strong as I
can, just to preserve a place where I can be who I am." Ani
Yet Another Steve
Sale) wrote:
> On 30 Jan 1996 22:03:00 GMT, LauraGillenwater <twor...@pop3.nfi.com>
> wrote:
> >Does anyone know the lyrics to the song "There's a Hole in the Bucket,
> >Dear Liza, Dear Liza? I'm particularly interested in what she tells him
> >to fix it with.
>
> A straw. Sexual reference, of course.
If a *straw* is a sexual reference here, it oughta be POOR Liza, Poor Liza,
shouldn't it?
Steve
Marc Leger
One of the on going skits is a trip to the National Art Gallery and the
curator describes at length an ordinary painting (Santa beside a fire
for example) and then delves into it's actual "sexual" meaning (the fire
is Santa's pent up sexual desires etc...) It is, of course, making fun
of those who see anything in anything.
Steve Harris
If you like these kinds of silly songs, there's a whole CD (or tape) of
them called, I think, "Silly Songs", which you can find in the
children's section (maybe at Toys R Us, etc. ?).
My friend's two year old will NOT go anywhere in the car unless this
tape is playing!
--
Steve Harris - Eaton Corp. - Beverly, MA - vsh%etn...@uunet.uu.net
Peter Dwyer
I know."
On his "Live at Carnegie Hall" which was issued as a 2-disk box-set on vinyl
in (I'm guessing now) the early 60's. I think that it was Odetta who sang the
part of Liza... Anyone care to clarify?
Peter Dwyer
Diane Rosenfeldt
>In article <4em4ik$p...@alpha.pcix.com>, LauraGillenwater
><twor...@pop3.nfi.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know the lyrics to the song "There's a Hole in the Bucket,
>> Dear Liza, Dear Liza? I'm particularly interested in what she tells him
>> to fix it with.
>"With a straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a straw, dear Henry, with a
> straw!"
>I think that's Odetta, isn't it?
Delurking here. :) I remember hearing this, probably on the radio
station my folks listened to, WGN in Chicago. As I remember, it was
Belafonte and Odetta, recorded live. The comic timing was wonderful,
as Liza dealt with Henry's denseness.
Diane
>Steve
DinnyR@wherever I am at the moment
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"I hchate hchwaiting."
-- Inigo Montoya
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BSCOTT1032
Town." We learned Latin lyrics for it in high school (early dark ages)
from an exchange teacher from Ireland to Detroit. Most of us didn't know
the original.
Best, Barb
Brittles
It's certainly the story of my daily existence in song!
It's also one of my daughter's favorites, since she was 5. We've perfomed
it as a duo for her school class, changing the names to "ALI" and DADDY".
She also came up with an hysterical varient -
(if you're familiar with the song - as most traditional folk audiences
are...)
Willie: "With what should I fix it dear Liza, dear Liza, etc.
Liza: "With epoxy!"
Willie: "Ohhh, of course!"
Ali Britt-Little, age 7
Sure is a good way to stop those long repetative songs!
