Subject: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Charcloth Date: 17 Sep 00 - 08:28 PM I Have been doing a kid's song for years that goes "I'm a little acorn round laying on the cold cold ground everybody steps on me that is why I'm cracked you see, I'm a nut" etc. does any one know who wrote this little ditty? or anything else about it? |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Sep 00 - 11:08 PM Hi, Charcloth - I looked it up on the www.kididdles.com site - click. They list the songwriter as "unknown." They're pretty nervous about posting copyrighted songs, so if they post it as "unknown," it quite possibly is. The book called Wee Sing Silly Songs also has it unattributed. I always thought it was something my obnoxious little sister made up in Girl Scout camp.... -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Sep 00 - 11:13 PM Hi, again, Charcloth - BMI (click) has five songs listed by that title, so maybe it IS a copyrighted song. ASCAP doesn't have any listing for that title. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: rabbitrunning Date: 18 Sep 00 - 08:49 AM My mom taught me that one, years ago, and I took it with me to girl scout camp. |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Giac Date: 18 Sep 00 - 09:30 AM I learned it on the school playground in the 1940s. We did a clapping hands thing to the cadence.
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE NUT SONG From: GUEST,rabbitrunning Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:14 PM The DT has a slightly different version than the one I learned, and it's also a little different than the one at kididdles, so here goes: THE NUT SONG I'm a little acorn brown, Lying on the cold, cold ground Everybody steps on me That is why I'm cracked you see I'm a nut tch tch (sort of a clicky noise) I'm a nut tch tch I'm a nut I'm a nut I'm a nut tch tch Took myself to the movie show Sat myself in the very first row Wrapped my arms around my waist When I got fresh I slapped my face Chorus I can sing and I can dance I wear ruffles on my... sorry, boys, guess again I wear ruffles on my dress chorus ^^ CD How do you sing it, Charcloth? |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: paddymac Date: 18 Sep 00 - 12:44 PM Glad this turned out to be an honest-to-goodness musical thread. I was afraid it was a new membership criterion, but I'm sure I could have passed the test. :>) |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: GUEST,rabbitrunning Date: 18 Sep 00 - 02:16 PM hmmm... Come to think of it, I wonder if the one Mom taught me wasn't "I love me", and the one that my older sister taught me was "I'm a nut." They both have the line about wrapping my arms around my waist... Think, think, think... |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Charcloth Date: 18 Sep 00 - 05:56 PM thanks folks the "I can sing & I can dance" verse was new to me. The version I know is real close to what has been said but, here are some other verses I know. "Grandpa's beard is long & gray, growing grayer day by day, Grandma eats it in her sleep says it tastes like shreadded wheat, (Chorus) I'm an old antique car I travel near I don't go far, every time you're in my way this is what you'll hear me say, rattle, honk honk, ooggah, beep beep, whae,(Chorus) |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Hotspur Date: 19 Sep 00 - 01:27 AM More verses my grandma used to sing: Called myself on the telephone Just to see if I was home With myself I made a date Had to be there by half past eight. Oh, I love me so, I love me so, I'll take myself to the picture show Wrap my hands around my waist If I get too fresh I'll slap my face.
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Subject: Lyr Add: I'M A NUT From: Tinker Date: 19 Sep 00 - 12:18 PM Thirty Years ago we sang the I'm a nut verse followed by.
Nobody knows what shape I'm in Got four wheels and a running board Just a little Model Ford Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle, Rattle, Crash, Beep, Beep, 3x Honk Honk! 3x This summer at Crossroads Outdoor Ministries I learnt this version
I'M A NUT
Called myself up on the phone
Go to the movies hold my hand
Coca cola came to town
Seven up got the flu
The car verse is in the Camp Loowit songbook data base under Pile of Tin. www.backyardgardener.com/loowit. ANd as I'm a Little Hunk of Tin in BoyScout Songs @ http://cac.psu.edu/~jxm181/songs. The last two seem to be more recent. Tinker |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: rabbitrunning Date: 19 Sep 00 - 08:18 PM Well, I looked through every children's collection of songs my little branch library has without luck, but I'm down at the main branch tomorrow, so I may be able to come up with something. Doubt it, though. It doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that gets into the "serious" anthologies. ;D |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Susan of DT Date: 19 Sep 00 - 09:02 PM I pulled all these verses into one song as a variant on "I'm a Nut". The car verse is already there as "Baby Blue Ford" |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: L R Mole Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:38 AM Wasn't there a Little Jimmy Dickens song with the chorus: "I'm a nut, I'm a nut, my mind don't ever get in a rut/The head on my shoulders is sorta loose; I ain't got sense god gave a goose, lord, I ain't crazy but/I'm a nut."? I seem to remember it with Doodles Weaver-like gargled interjections. And anyway NONE of this is politically correct, and the nuts are probably after us all. How circular. |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: rabbitrunning Date: 20 Sep 00 - 11:55 AM I've been thinking, and isn't the tune to this song similar to part of the routine that Shirley Temple did in one of her movies with Bill Robinson? (I think it was "The Little Colonel", but I haven't seen any of the Temple movies since I was a kid so I'm not sure.) |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: GUEST,I really wish I could find this song on cd Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:05 PM I don't know why the squirrels love me so, I'm a descendant to the oak, Nuts to you and that's no joke |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: maple_leaf_boy Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:12 PM Tiny Tim sings a song called "I'm A Nut". ? |
Subject: ADDPOP: I'm a Nut(attributed to Leroy Pullins) From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:25 PM Of course, then there's this country classic: I'M A NUT (attributed to Leroy Pullins) I'm a Nut, I'm a Nut, My life don't ever get in a rut Woop Woop Woop Woop The head on my shoulders is sore and loose And I ain't got the sense God gave a goose Lord, I ain't crazy but, I'm a nut Is it wetter underwater if you're there when it rains Is it shorter to New York, than it is by plane Between myself and I, I wonder who's the dumber Is it hotter down south than it is in the Summer I'm a Nut, I'm a Nut, My life don't ever get in a rut The head on my shoulders is sore and loose And I ain't got the sense God gave a goose Lord, I ain't crazy but, I'm a nut I drove my Cadillac to Vegas to satisfy my lust Wheelin', Dealin', left old Vegas on a Greyhound Bus I sure didn't set the woods on fire while I was there But remember, only forest fires prevent bears (Interlude) I'm a Nut, I'm a Nut, My life don't ever get in a rut (ba ba di di etc) The head on my shoulders is sore and loose And I ain't got the sense God gave a goose Lord, I ain't crazy but, I'm a nut The poverty war will be over, when I begin to fight If it took a dime to go around the world, I couldn't get out of sight I don't mind to take the girls out, if they don't mind to go Dutch When you feel like a million dollars, and I bet I ain't worth half that much I'm a Nut, I'm a Nut, My life don't ever get in a rut Woop Woop Woop Woop The head on my shoulders is sore and loose And I ain't got the sense God gave a goose Lord, I ain't crazy but, I'm a nut Oh, crazy man, I'm a nut, Oh Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy I'm Crazy! I'm a Nut!... (Marcus Tee) Leroy Pullins recording release date: 1966 http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=386 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKj0sssuGk |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: GUEST Date: 26 Jul 10 - 07:33 PM and then there is a classic: Going in the garden to eat worms! My mom would sing both to me to cheere me up when I was blue and she didn't know what to do. |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: open mike Date: 27 Jul 10 - 04:08 AM some of the lines above match a song we used to sing about father's whiskers.. (the shredded wheat line...) they hide the dirt on father's shirt, they're always in the way... |
Subject: RE: info on 'I'm a Nut' From: Cool Beans Date: 27 Jul 10 - 02:29 PM Romeo and Juliet, On the balcony they met. "Gotta get dressed, I've got a date. Shakesperare's coming at half past eight." My daughter learned this verse in school in the late 80s. I learned "I'm a Nut" at camp in the 50s from the music counselor Bob Enright, who also taught us "Be Kind To Your Parents." |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut From: CapriUni Date: 22 Oct 10 - 02:44 PM Cool Beans -- Speaking of Shakespeare... There's a scene in As you Like It, where the heroine (Rosilind) finds bad love poetry written in her honor hanging from the branches of trees. And the Jester (Touchstone) teases her with his own version, including these lines: Sweetest nut hath sourest rind, Such a nut is Rosalind And I've always wondered: exactly how modern is our modern meaning of the word "nut" as a foolish, or mad, person? This wonderment woke up in my head the other day, and I've had the song "I'm a nut" floating in my head ever since... |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Nov 10 - 02:21 PM NUT. To please a person by any little act of assiduity, by a present, or by flattering words, is called nutting him; as the present, &c. by which you have gratified them, is termed a nut. NUTS. It was nuts for them; i. e. it was very agreeable to them. NUTS. Fond, pleased. She's nuts upon her cull; she's pleased with her cully. The cove's nutting the blowen; the man is trying to please the girl. NUTS UPON IT. To be very much pleased or gratified with any object, adventure, or overture; so a person who conceives a strong inclination for another of the opposite sex, is said to be quite nutty, or nuts upon him or her. NUTS UPON YOURSELF. A man who is much gratified with any bargain he has made, narrow escape he has had, or other event in which he is interested, will express his self-satisfaction or gladness by declaring that he is, or was, quite nuts upon himself. --from Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose, 1823. |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut From: GUEST Date: 10 Nov 10 - 12:35 AM When I was at Girl Scout camp, there was a song that began, I'm wild about horns on automobiles that go wha a ah ah Beep beep! I'm a nut, I'm a pest, but the things I like the best, I'm wild about horns on automobiles that go etc. |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut - Girl Scout Camp Song From: GUEST,Another guest Date: 30 May 13 - 01:03 AM In response to the "10 Nov 10 - 12:35 AM" post - I learned that song in Girl Scout Camp, too. It is a modified version of an ooooold, OLD song from 1928 (?) called: "I'm Wild About Horns". As I remember the song from Girl Scout Camp (in 1982), it went like this: I'm Wild about horns on automobiles that go wah ah ah ah ah ah ah ooga ooga! (Repeat again) I used to own a funny little car that I got from a guy named Greg And every-time I honked that horn, this is what it said I'm a pest, I'm a pest, I'm a pest, I'm a pest But the things I like the best..... (Repeat first line) |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut From: GUEST,Guest Date: 12 Jul 14 - 09:17 PM There was a song that I learned at a leader training that went like this:
and every time he beeped the horn this is what he'd say "I'm a nut I'm a pest but the thing that I like the best are old fashioned horns on Automobiles that go an an an an, an an an an, an an an an Beep Beep. |
Subject: RE: Origin: I'm a Nut From: GUEST Date: 04 Feb 24 - 03:11 PM I'm a little piece of tin, Nobody knows what I might have been. I got four wheels and a running board I'm a four-door I'm a Ford... Honk honk rattle rattle crash crash bang bang Honk honk rattle rattle crash crash bang bang Honk honnnkkkk |
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