Thread #43566   Message #640216

Posted By: GUEST,Bob Nelson, with no more cookie ... help!

01-Feb-02 - 04:33 PM

Thread Name: Haywire Mac Songs

Subject: RE: Haywire Mac Songs

I'm going to post another song I know was written by the late Haywire Mac. It was taught to me by Willi Waw Willy, in the fishing village of Westport, Washington, about 1950. I know I've screwed up one line, so I hope that someone out there can correct me. I never wrote the words down, so this is all from memory ... I've never heard it it sung by anyone and I've never seen it in print. This is a wonderful parody of Abdull the Bull Bull Ameer.

YE OLDE BALLAD OF SOMETHING OR OTHER

(sung to the melody of Abdull the Bull Bull Ameer).

A minstrel once sang me a sad rondelay,
A song of the brave days of olde,
How two mighty heros once had an afray,
And each laid the other out cold.

They met and they quarreled, such things shouldn't be,
But the sparks from their swords flew like fire,
Their names were Alphonzo Cornelieus McGee,
And Alonzo Fitzpatrick McGuire.

"GADZOOKS"cried Alphonzo, don't look at me so,
Don't you see you're arousing my ire,
But there 'neer was a man by the name of McGee,
Who would back down from a man named McGuire.

So the knights sallied forth dressed in armour of proof,
While the populace shouted "HEY HEY," And each made a noise like a galvinized roof,
As he mounted his steed for the fray.

Now never was seen such a furious fight,
Never heard such a hideous din,
As each hero labored with main and with might,
At the others kimono of tin.

They cried out "AVANT!" and "HAVE AT THEE FOUL KNAVE,"
As the sparks from their swords flew like fire,
Then the mighty Alphonzo Cornelious McGee,
Smote Alonzo Fitzpatrick McGuire.

From sunrise they fought 'till the pale yellow moon,
Shown down, and lo there in the mire,
Stone dead lay Alphonzo Cornelious Mcgee,
And Alonzo Fitzpatrick McGuire.

So boys, take warning from these luckless knights,
Beware of their terrible fate,
Collect half a million each time that ye fight
With fourty per cent of ye gate.

Be like ye prize fighter and go for ye dough,
If you to great riches aspire
Don't be like Alphonzo Cornelious McGee
Or Alonzo Fitzpatrick McGuire

CHEERS, Bob Nelson