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Thread #52318   Message #927085
Posted By: Haruo
06-Apr-03 - 03:36 AM
Thread Name: Favorite songs with Nonsense refrains
Subject: RE: Favorite songs with Nonsense refrains
I'm rather fond of the Pesky Sarpent (too-loo-ree-loo, too-loo-ree-lay) and the adaptation of it I used in "In Bethlem Town".

Growing up we used to sing in the car, all the way across the United States, the all-nonsense medley:

Quee Quay money-money-money-money dusty,
Quee Quay Quo, Quee Quay Quum,
Quee Quay money-money-money-money dusty,
Quee Quay Quo, Quee Quay Quum,
O Nicodemo! O jolly-olly-umbo!
O Nicodemo! O jolly-olly oompah! oompah! oompah!
Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda, ret set set,
Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda, ret set set!
A-dore-ee-oh! A-dore-ee-boom-day-oh!
A-dore-ay-boom-day-ret-set-set!
Hossay possay oh!

Haruo