Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,l&m Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:39 PM great big globs of greasy grimy gopher guts mutilated monky feet chopped up baby parikeet also you can say great big globs of poisin ivy pimple puss chopped up baby parikeet turky throw up in the street |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,JB Date: 18 Oct 03 - 10:51 PM I sang a part of this to my husband the other day and he thought I was nuts. I just had to do a search to prove I'm not the only one. I remember my brothers singing this around the house, at least 20 years ago. All I can remember is... Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, choped up frog legs, tiny little monkey brains, throw it in a frying pan.... It was certianly interesting to read all the other variations. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,.oO0 Mike 0Oo. Date: 11 Sep 03 - 01:29 AM All I can add to this is that I still hear kids chanting the first line or two now and again. I am in Connecticut and am 23yrs old and God only know's where I heard it first.... I remember the line as going "..little birdies bloody feet.." I really would like to find an actual recording of any version at all of the song.. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Jun 03 - 12:40 PM ...but do we have any evidence that this song is traditional??? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:07 AM I've done a reasonable amount of informal research on the subject (and other regional differences in schoolyard chants), and Milwaukee seems to be the only place using the word "mince-ilated." Linn |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,Noneofyour Beeswax Date: 19 Jun 03 - 10:00 PM great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, dirty,dirty birdy feet all wrapped up in my father's stinky underwear but i forgot my spoon.......but i had a strawwwwwwww |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,Lidy Date: 18 Jun 03 - 04:41 AM To bring in our suburban exotic cooking influence, our monkey feet were always "marinated" when we sang that song, and probably served with a light jus of buffalo fat or something equally middle-class! |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Jun 03 - 12:43 AM OK, so now the burning question is, Is this traditional? The first post attributes the song to Tom Glazer, who has also been blamed for "On Top of Spaghetti." But did he really write these songs, or did he just codify an older children's traditional song? What do they conclude in the Sherman/Weisskopf book? Songfile.com (Harry Fox Agency) attributes both songs to Tom Glazer. The Traditional Ballad Index has an entry on this song, but not much. It cites the Pankake/PHC lyrics that are posted above. -Joe Offer- Greasy Grimy Gopher GutsDESCRIPTION: "Great (big) gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts...." The singer lists a variety of available non-delicacies, and laments, "And me without a spoon."AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1988 KEYWORDS: food parody FOUND IN: US REFERENCES (2 citations): Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 133, "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" (1 text, tune referenced) DT, GOPHRGTS CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "The Old Gray Mare (I) (The Old Gray Horse; The Little Black Bull)" (tune) NOTES: People swear this is a folk song. I haven't heard it, but I can't prove them wrong. - RBW File: PHCFS133 Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2017 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: LadyJean Date: 17 Jun 03 - 11:57 PM Jo Sherman IS the Fantasy and Science Fiction author. I go to cons, when I can afford it, like a lot of us folkies, and I met her at Ad Astra, the Toronto con. We've had some nice talks on the subject of folklore. While I'm sure she likes to meet a nice, fawning fan, she is also pleased to meet another folklore enthusiast. Oh! Her book about the Babylonian demon in New York is pretty good |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Bat Goddess Date: 17 Jun 03 - 07:43 PM Trying to FIND her web page -- there's a fantasy/science fiction writer by the same name. All sorts of pages devoted to the book Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, but can't quickly find her page in the pile. Post it? (Please) Linn |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: LadyJean Date: 17 Jun 03 - 01:10 AM The book, "Greasy Grim Gopher Guts" is the work of a delightful lady named Josepha Sherman. She is a fine writer, an eminent folklorist, and a delightful human being. Drop in on her web page, sometime. The first email I sent was to MS. Sherman. I sent her rhyme my grandmother learned when she was a child, that included the phrase ninny of your tintype. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Bat Goddess Date: 16 Jun 03 - 12:25 PM From Lane School (later Jr. High), West Allis, Wisconsin (west 'burb of Milwaukee) c. 1958 -- Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts Mincilated monkey meat, little girls' dirty feet, All mixed up for (victim's name here) to eat. Linn |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: GUEST,Former Boy Scout Date: 11 Jun 03 - 10:18 PM Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat, Tiny peoples purple feet, Itty-bitty birdie beak, French-fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of snot And I forgot my spoon.... Great big globs of poison ivy pimple pus Turkey vomit in the street and I forgot my spoon. Coody, coody custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dogs' eye, slap it on a greasy pork sandwich smothered in flys and I forgot my spoon. But I brought my strawwwww! |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Joe_F Date: 14 Mar 03 - 07:01 PM "What's that on your lip, honey?" "No, it's snot, honey." And, for dessert: Old Mr Kelly Had a pimple on his belly. His wife cut it off, And it tasted like jelly. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Rapparee Date: 14 Mar 03 - 08:36 AM From a maragrine commercial: "If you think it's butter, but it's snot, it's Chiffon." |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Mark Cohen Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:36 AM And at Woodrow Wilson Jr. High School in Philadelphia, ca. 1964, it was: Great green gobs of ooey gooey gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat Dirty birdies' smelly feet Rats and bats and barracuda, slightly chewed That's what goes into Wilson food! Then there was (to the tune of the TV commercial for Beefaroni): What are we having for lunch? We're having shitaroni It's made with stale baloney Shitaroni's really neat Tastes and smells like dirty feet Makes you vomit in the street Yaaay! for Shitaroni (I think I'd better to go to sleep now...) Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: open mike Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:09 AM In NEBR our menu was Oh So much more refined.. Great big globs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, mutilated monkey meat, contaminated camel crap, all rolled together at a dollar 98 a plate at joe's bar and grill and then there was the ever popular: Granny's in the cellar, Lordy Lordy,can't you smell her, bakin' biscuits on her darned old dirty stove (dirty stove) in her eye there is some matter that keeps drippin' in the batter and she whistles as a (snif) runs down her nose (down her nose), down her nose, (down her nose) down her nose, (down her nose) and she whistles as a (snif) runs down her nose |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: MarkS Date: 14 Jan 00 - 12:13 AM The other use of this song was to tease some poor unfortunate. Make the last line: "(insert name of victim here) ain't ya glad you brought a spoon." |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: reeebop Date: 13 Jan 00 - 01:16 AM of course, when we sang it(and it still alive and breeding at girlscout camps everywhere) after "and i forgot my spoon" we'd always add BUT I GOT A STRAW!!!! and start making slurppin sounds.... |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 12 Jan 00 - 10:52 PM T: I actually appear in that book, though under an older nickname, "Electro" and mistakenly transplanted to New Jersey. The entry I could find is on P.116, parodying my elementary school to the Marine Corps hymn.
I know both the instigators (science-fiction authors and editors Josepha Sherman and Toni Weisskopf) and was present in the on-line forum on the now-deceased GEnie online service where the book idea was launched
-- Gary
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Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) Date: 12 Jan 00 - 09:26 AM There is also a book titled, Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood. Click here for information. T. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Owlkat Date: 12 Jan 00 - 05:55 AM Morning all, There is indeed a book with the title "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts". I know because I took it out of the Whitehorse Library last year,and if I can get it out of a library in the Yukon, surely it can be found in the world down south, as we say up here. Anyway, the book is full of rhymes and songs created by kids from grown up songs and things. It's hysterical. Cheers for now Owl/Mart |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Barbara Date: 12 Jan 00 - 01:26 AM And this NYs, at Joe's camp song workshop someone followed it with "Come up, come up, come up my dinner, come up, come up...." followed by appropriate sounds. (Tune: chorus of My Bonny lies Over the Ocean). Blessings, Barbara |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Tanya A. Date: 12 Jan 00 - 01:10 AM You are WONDERFUL! THANK YOU THANK YOU! I have been looking for the extra lyrics to "Great Green Gobs" for at least 15 years. I kept stopping right at "Irish Stew", but I KNEW I had it right, even though most people haven't heard the whole thing. If this is ever available as a .wav or on an album, I want it! I honestly cannot thank you enough..my search has ended and now I can sing it, at the top of my lungs, to my own children!! -Tanya |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Peter Timmerman Date: 13 Jun 97 - 03:31 PM From: Ian MacDonald, 1994. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties (London: Fourth Estate), p. 214. "Reminiscing, Lennon and his Liverpool friend Pete Shotton recalled a typical playground nonsense chant: " Yellow matter custard, green slop pie/ all mixed together with a dead dog's eye"." (On the writing of "I Am The Walrus"). |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: annie Date: 10 Jun 97 - 11:45 PM great big globs of poison ivy pimple pus...... |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Peter Timmerman Date: 08 Jun 97 - 10:20 AM This sounds like a seminal influence on "semolina pilchard" in the Beatles' I Am The Walrus. i wonder if anyone has noticed. Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Cathub@bellsouth.net Date: 07 Jun 97 - 02:37 PM When I was a boy in Bolton, England, we had a gross out that went like this... Coody, coody custard, green snot pie, all mixed together with a dead dogs' eye, slap it on a buttie (sandwich), nice and thick, and wash it down with a bottle of sick. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Tamara Date: 06 Jun 97 - 07:34 PM Naturally, I must throw in:
...chopped up baby parakeet |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: catfeet Date: 04 Jun 97 - 11:37 PM or even ...turdy dirty birdie feet swimmin in a great big bowl of blood... What a great thread! I seem to remember that there were infinite variations depending on how badly you wanted to gross out the other kids you were playing with. We did this until somebody unanomously won the gross-out award. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: joepasky@cyberlynk.net Date: 04 Jun 97 - 08:11 PM or ....thirty turdy birdie feet.... |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: ron k Date: 28 May 97 - 09:30 PM At the summer camp I went to we sang it this way... Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat, itty-bitty birdie feet French-fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood And I forgot my spoon Great song, I would love to get a copy of that wav file when it comes available. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Peter Timmerman Date: 26 May 97 - 09:31 AM Dear HB, By george I think you may be right! I somehow got oil on the brain. Pink lemonade. The dactylics tell the tale! Now where is that spoon. Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: H. Burhans Date: 25 May 97 - 04:56 PM I learned this in 2nd grade in Karachi, Pakistan in 1960 - great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts mutilated monkey meat dirty little birdie's feet one-half pound of all-purpose-porpoise pus floating in the pink lemonade The other song that springs to mind in this vein is the good old" "Did you ever see a black car go by" Ah, those were the days! HB |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Joe Offer Date: 25 May 97 - 01:27 AM Here's what's in the Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book (Marcia & Jon Pankake):
Greasy grimy gopher guts Jubilated monkey's feet Concentrated birdies' feet A great big jar of All-purpose porpoise pus And me without a spoon! (I love it so) tune: "the Old Grey mare," with a "Good Evening, Friends" ending) Well, in third grade in Detroit, it was
Greasy grimy gopher guts Greasy grimy gopher guts Greasy grimy gopher guts Great green gobs of Greasy grimy gopher guts And me without a spoon. None of that fancy stuff if you want the Motown sound. -Joe- |
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW AND GREEN From: rich r Date: 25 May 97 - 12:40 AM This song needs a side dish. I heard Roy Harris do this years ago on the radio. There was an old woman she kept fat hogs She made plum puddings they poisoned the dogs They were black, white yellow and green Black white yellow and green the rarest plum puddings you ever have seen They were black, white, yellow and green. She took them and dropped them into a pot And she boiled them until they were blazing hot They were.... She baked them until they were blazing red, One was like leather, the other like lead They were... She took up a pin and pricked the skin The gravy ran out and the maggots ran in They were.... She took them and put them down on the floor They each in turn ran out of the door They were... She took them and put them up on a shelf If you want any more you can help yourself They were.... rich r
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Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Peter Timmerman - ptimmerman@ifias.ca Date: 24 May 97 - 01:55 PM I believe there is a book in print of disgusting songs for children. I have seen a copy recently and will hunt it out.The version of this song I remember had two different lines, and a missing word that has bothered me. The lines were: "Mutilated monkey meat, concentrated dirty feet, one whole pound of all-purpose porpoise pus, swimming in _____oil." I forget what the oil was - saturated? (seems a little bland). Anyone? Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Gene Graham ah827@rgfn.epcc.edu Date: 24 May 97 - 12:21 PM YEP! Got the album - LONG ago for the Grandkids.. Still trying to restore My WAV maker/audio program from the BIG CRASH OF '97.... Can email an attachment when I get it working again..email me privately, if interested. |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: cleod Date: 24 May 97 - 09:12 AM I remember this from a book I had when I was a kid, something 'bout a kid who got sent to summer camp; I always wondered what this sounded like... |
Subject: RE: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts From: Joe Offer Date: 24 May 97 - 02:33 AM Wow! This was one of my favorites when I was in third grade, but I didn't know it had verses. Is there a recording available? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: Lyr Add: GREAT, GREEN GOBS OF GREASY, GRIMY GOPHER From: Gene Graham Date: 22 May 97 - 08:09 PM Hey, Ya'll - let's mix some of this with the WORMS and make a pot of WITCHES' BREW! GREAT, GREEN GOBS OF GREASY, GRIMY GOPHER GUTS (Words and music by Tom Glazer) Refrain: Great, Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts Mutilated Monkey Meat, Itty Bitty Birdie Feet Great, Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts And me without a spoon. Some people eat hamburger meat; While others like potatoes And some must chew their Irish stew; Along with ripe tomatoes I can't understand why in ev'ry land; They serve such peculiar dishes For wherever I go - they always say No!; When I tell them what my wish is ... I scream for: Refrain: I can pay my way in a French Cafe; Which is big and quite expensive Where the diners dine and the wine is fine; But I'm always apprehensive When the menu comes - I twiddle my thumbs; At the list of fancy dishes Caviar and steaks - champagne and cake; Is never what my wish is ... I beg for: Refrain: In the life to come - I intend to hum; This hymn to old Saint Peter I won't need much - when my harp I touch; And become a heavenly eater I won't ask for money or milk and honey; And my voice will never falter While the trumpets blare on the Golden Stair; As I stand at the Shining Altar ... I yell for: Refrain: TAG: And me without a spoon! .. YUK! |
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