My thanks to sian for the castor oil verse, and to adrienne for the davenport version which I had never heard before.

I was at Shriners Hospital for twelve years on a grant from the Phila. Folk Festival. My job was to sing with the kids every week. We made up lots of songs. Here's one.

There is just one odor, there's just one whiff/ It's a great big skunk who is scratch and sniff/ It's like livivg in a sewer/ On a pile of manure/ It's a smell world after all.

It's like my pet cat's kitty litter box/ It's an old gym bag full of dirty socks/ It's the sweat that you get/ When your armpits are wet/ It's a smell world after all.