I think Bill's post might get lost where it is, so here it is again:

Thread #115512   Message #2475871
Posted By: Bill D
25-Oct-08 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Memory Songs?
Subject: RE: Memory Songs?


Here is one I stole from a Jean Ritchie/Oscar Brand LP 40+ years ago, and added & tweaked it a bit with a verse I found in a book.
There is a shorter, slightly different version in the Database, but this is burned into my brain cells this way.....

I encourage the audience to sing with me on the chorus...some even mangage thru 3 verses....


Oh...yes, I DO insist they sing "IS gone"... *grin*

(and, about 15 years ago, the audience at the FSGW Getaway got into the spirit and ran up during the song and brought me close approximations of ALL the items in the song!)

GOOD PEANUTS

The man who owns them good peanuts
And giveth his neighbor none
He shall have none of my good peanuts
When his good peanuts is gone

chorus:
   Won't it be joyful, joyful, joyful
   Won't it be joyful, son?
   Won't it be joyful, joyful, joyful
   When his good peanuts is gone?

The man who owns those soft sweet soda crackers
And giveth his neighbor none
He shall have none of my sweet soft soda crackers
When his sweet soft soda crackers is gone

Chorus: re: crackers

The man who owns them rich, red, ripe, strawberry shortcakes
And giveth his neighbor none
He shall have none of my rich, red, ripe, straberry shortcakes
When his rich, red, ripe, strawberry shortcakes is gone.

Chorus: re:shortcakes

The man who owns them 3 dollar,Plymouth rock, all wool and a yard wide,
guaranteed not to rip and to tear workpants
And giveth his neighbor none
He shall have none of my 3 dollar,Plymouth rock, all wool and a yard wide,
guaranteed not to rip and to tear workpants
When his 3 dollar Plymouth rock, all wool and a yard wide, guaranteed
not to rip and to tear workpants is gone.

Chorus: re:workpants

The man who owns them John Wanamaker's enduable, reversable, sit-on-'em-and-mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug-hats,
And giveth his neighbor none,
He shall have none of my John Wanamaker's enduable, reversable, sit-on-'em-and-mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug-hats,
When his John Wanamaker's enduable, reversable, sit-on-'em-and-mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug-hats is gone.

Chorus: re:plug hats

The man who owns that de-moralized, de-monitized, degenerate, saponacious, silver money...and giveth his neighbor none.
He shall have none of my de-moralized, de-monitized, degenerate, saponacious, silver money,
When his de-moralized, de-monitized, degenerate, saponacious, silver money is gone.

Chorus:......and here, *I*, when I get to the last line of the chorus, reverse the order and sing ALL the lines down from "silver money" down to "good peanuts"...in one breath, if I can.