The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12722   Message #2010945
Posted By: Charley Noble
29-Mar-07 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: Songs about bugs, insects, spiders, snails, worms
Subject: RE: Buggy songs?
I love molasses, good ol' country sorghum;
I eats it in the winter and the fall;
Summer it gets so full of flies
It resembles raisin pies --
That's the way I likes it best of all!

Then there's this one if you like the blues:

Words and music by Julius Lester
© 1965 Hyperson Music Publishers

Cockroach Blues

Lord, I wouldn't mind roaches
If they would help me pay my rent;
I said I wouldn't mind roaches
If they would help me pay my rent,
But you know a roach said to me, "You better move,
I want one of them luxury apartments."

I bought a spray last night
And I sprayed all over the house...(as above)
I got up this morning,
Roaches thanked me for killing a mouse.

Now I wish I had a penny
For every roach I've seen...(as above)
Nobody in this world
Would have to work again.

There were some roaches on the stove,
They were standing around in a crowd...(as above)
I walked over to 'em;
Roaches turned around and yelled "Freedom now!"

Warm regards,
Landlady's Daughter