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Thread #5936   Message #2399147
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Jul-08 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Midnight on the Ocean / Crazy Mixed Up...
Subject: Lyr Add: CRAZY MIXED UP SONG (C Grean, J Javits)
Transcribed from a "video" at YouTube:

CRAZY MIXED UP SONG
As sung by Homer & Jethro

1. 'Twas midnight on the ocean. Not a streetcar was in sight.
The sun was shinin' brightly in the middle of the night.
A barefoot boy with shoes on stood there sittin' in a tree,
And when I put my glasses on, I heard this melody:

CHORUS: Be kind to your web-footed friends,
Fer a duck may be somebody's mother.
Be kind to the denizen of the swamp.
He's a dilly through and through.
You may think that this is the end.
[Well, it isn't, 'cause there is another chorus.]*

2. 'Twas midnight on the ocean when the rain begin to snow.
The cows all started crowin' 'cause the time had come to go.
This crazy mixed-up guy was swimmin' all around the lawn,
Lookin' for the ending of this crazy mixed-up song.

3. 'Twas midnight on the ocean as he slowly rushed away.
He thought it was tomorrow 'cause it wasn't yesterday,
And now he lives in Tennessee beside the pyramids,
Raisin' lots of nanny-goats with crazy mixed-up kids.

*ON LAST CHORUS, SUBSTITUTE: "Well, it is."

[I found a sound sample of the same song, with the same title, performed by Billy Cotton & His Band.

ASCAP attributes CRAZY MIXED UP SONG to Charles R. Grean and Joan Ellen Javits.