Subject: RE: Naughty kids' greatest hits II
From:
GUEST,Estela
Date: 07 Jun 00 - 04:46 PM
I have some alternate versions of a few songs, and even a few not mentioned:
One is the Miss Lucy Had a Steamboat song; This is the longest version I know of, and I haven't seen it posted yet, and yes, we sang it with the emphasis as marked.
Miss Lucy had a steamboat. The steamboat had a bell. Miss Lucy went to heaven and the steamboat went to-- Hello, operator. Please give me number nine, And if you disconnect me, I will chop off your-- Behind the 'fridgerator, there was a piece of glass. Miss Lucy sat upon it and it broke (sic) her little-- Ask me no more questions; I'll tell you no more lies. The boys are in the bathroom pulling up their-- Flies are in the meadow. The bees are in the park. Miss Lucy and her boyfriend are kissing in the-- D-a-r-k. D-a-r-k. D-a-r-k dark, dark, dark! Dark is like a movie. a movie's like a show. A show is on a TV set and that is all-- I know I know my mother. I know I know my pa. I know I know my sister who is pulling up her bra!
There was also some version that had the order somehow altered so that the movies were connected to movie theater was connected to kissing in the dark. But this was the one we usually sang.
Also a version of the song listed as "Sweet Violets". I learned this one at camp, and ours was actually part of the "Shaving Cream" group. What I remember went like this. There were at least 5 verses.
A baby fell out of a window (a window) You'd think that it's head would have split (have split) But good luck was with him that morning (that morning) He fell in a pile of....
Chorus: Shhhhhhhhaving cream! Be nice and clean! Shave every day and you'll always look clean, Bop bop, mm bop bop, mm bop bop, mm bop.
[As I recall, the mm bop bop part had a sort of dance with it: you would alternate ducking down and sitting standing up real straight. Sometimes alternate people would do it on opposite words.]
I don't recall more of our verses, at least not in full, but there was definitely one about a soldier whose kit was full of...you guessed it. And someone being full of...right. None of them are the ones listed under "Sweet Violets."
And I've got a variant of the "I'm a nut" song.
Our chorus was the same, with claps instead of snaps, but our verses went:
I'm a little acorn round Lying on the cold, cold ground. Everybody steps on me. That is why I'm cracked, you see. CHO.
Called myself up on the phone Just to see if I was home. Asked myself out on a date. Said to be ready by half past eight. CHO.
Took myself to the picture show. Sat myself in the very first [or front] row. Put my arm around my waist. Got so fresh I slapped my face! CHO.
Let's see. I don't think I've heard "Jaws" mentioned. It went "Baby jaws, jaws jaws, jaws, jaws, baby jaws, jaws, jaws, jaws, jaws" and then you'd substitute things like "momma jaws", "grandpa jaws", etc. Each one had a hand symbol. Baby jaws was hands together at the wrist, small motions, and it went up through one linked at the elbows, to one with your whole arms for the biggest jaws. The idea was that that you'd close the jaws on every word "jaws." I think there may also have been one like this that went "Aaaaaaaaalllllllligator...aaaaalllllllligator" where alligators ate either people or each other, but the aaaaaaaallllligator was the chorus.
Then there was a song about Mrs. O'Leary [Cow Kicked the Bucket] I don't remember much but the end of either each verse or the whole song had several shouted directions, at least some with motions.
One about "Burn [Something] Burn". The last three were "jump, lady, jump!" [Waving like you were holding airplane cones] "errrrrrrrrrsmash!" [It was kind of a sound effect. Hand motion was a big swoop from high to low, that crashed into the other hand.] And then the last was "get the shovel!"
We also sang the "Comet, it makes your mouth turn green" parody (or just whistled the melody) and "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" (our bird line was "little baby birdies' feet"). There were plenty more, but those were the most gruesome, and so most memorable. Oh yeah! And "Tiptoe through the Goose Doo" which was probably an original parody. The grass near the lake at the camp had a lot of "goose doo."
On long bus trips, we used to sing dirty versions of "The Ants Go Marching." I don't think they were ever standardized, you'd sort of make up the rhymes as you went along.
I know of a few clapping songs. Miss Mary Mack (If anyone wants the full words I can probably manage them), and "The Band-Aid Song." The "clapping" for the band aid song was quite complicated. There was less clapping than swishy motions and intricate grabs of the hands and wrists from above and below and things like that. The song went "I am stuck on Band-Aid brand cause the Band-Aid's stuck on me!" And there was a part about it not coming off in the bathtub, followed by the "I am stuck..." piece again. I'm not sure, but I think we at least tried to do The Band-Aid Song with three or four people, and there was another clapping song which I can't remember at all (it may even have been Miss Lucy) that was done in a circle of five or six people.... or that might have applied to any song that had the simple clap, clap left hands with your partner, clap, clap right hands with your partner pattern. Band-Aid was too complicated for more than four people to even attempt, since it had to be done in the middle.
I wish I could remember them better, especially given it's been less than a decade for a lot of these. Oh well. Sorry for the longwinded posting, I just knew a lot of these songs at one point.
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