Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells

Subject: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 May 03 - 01:31 PM

Well, since nobody's done it yet....

In honor of the splitting of the forum into music and BS sections, we have endeavored to comemorate the event in song. Here it is.

Reggae beat - make up chords and melody to suit yerself

DOWN IN DE BOTTOM WHERE DE B.S. DWELL

We be hangin' out in de 'Cat Cafe
We not real smart - don't got much to say
De treads up top all look de same today
We go down to de bottom where de bullshit stay

Now we don' got no PHD's
An' we don' know much 'bout sea shanties
Or who in de hell wrote "Goober Peas"
Jus' take we down to de bullshit, please

Dun tol' you twice 'bout ma banjo string
An' how ma guitar got it's first ding
So many times, de same ole ting
To de bullshit - dat's where I'm going

I tink it grand folks knows so much
'Bout major seventh chords and such
An' de fiddle tunes of de French and Dutch
Jus' make me say "Aw! What de fuch!"

So if you find a awful smell
Come from someplace you cannot tell
Is jus' we crazies raisin' hell
Down in de bottom where de bullshit dwell

Bruce

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 May 03 - 01:46 PM

Bruce it's a gem, well done, I'm working on the tune.
¦¬].....Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:11 PM

A theme song for Mudcat Gatherings. Priceless. Mo verses please, as in the tradition of spirituals.

Who dat man his face all red?
Must be de one de bullshit said.
Why he look so mad today?
Mus be de bullshit some Catter have say.

Who dat girl her spelling bad,
Must be too much of de bullshit had.
Type so fast she spill her min'
Down in de bullshit lookin' to fin'.

Who dat Guest I see again?
Nonnamus flamer, or nonnamus frien'.
Dat his post I see las' night?
Down in de bullshit, no one right.

Have some time, I like to kill,
Down to de bullshit, go I will.
Time she pass, I don' know,
Time get lost when you stuck below.

Got some opinions, 'times I rants,
Down in de bullshit you get yo chance.
Say it easy, say it mean,
Down in de bullshit no hands be clean.

Now dey say dey's folkies, and po-liti-cal,
Gots to argue, shoot de bull.
Us likes blues, we got de clue--
Down in de bullshit only music true.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: MMario
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:16 PM

Down in the de bottom where the BS dwells
There was Cletus, and Paw, and tons of smell
Along came Tweed who lit him a torch
Boom bang POW! Blew up de porch!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:23 PM

Some folks never be seen down dere,
Rather have music, not mess to share.
Down in de bullshit de bes' don' go,
Rest of us spoutin' de little we know.

~Guilty as Charged

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: gnomad
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:46 PM

Can't do words quickly myself, but on reading the thread title I was sure it would be constructed on Ragtime Cowboy Joe.

A generational thing I guess.

Anyone fancy a go then we can have endless discussions in 50 years about which is the authentic song (and whether it is folk, of course)?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Bill D
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:38 PM

lawsy, lawsy!...setch amazin' verses above!.....classics in they own time, they are.

Mebbe we need to have a "BS" workshop at the Getaway in Oct. just to honor such creativity!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 May 03 - 05:43 PM

Is this what they call "crossover" music?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 May 03 - 06:07 PM

Do we all have to use that vernacular? It's such a stereotype...not all of us do you know! **BG**

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:17 PM

Allan C asked if it was "crossover" music.


The answer is no, it's "crossunder" music.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:30 PM

Could use the tune of "Down in the meadow in an itty bitty poo', Fam 'fee liddle fiddies and de momma fiddy too,...."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Tinker
Date: 06 May 03 - 09:42 PM

Guest Q.... I found myself singing along with that very tune.

Kathy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:52 AM

Thanks, I now have to go and change my underwear!

Mind you, don't real cat fish live on the bottom? And everyone knows that scum always rises to the top......

(I'll get me coat)

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 11:05 AM

Play it again, Sam!

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: 42
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 11:13 AM

risking a trip to the top; sitting above the salt for a change...i find myself in stitches.

Do you think any of the BS catters will think this is as hilarious as I?
j

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Mark Clark
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 11:29 AM

I don't know how I missed this thread when it was new but now that I've seen it, I'm going to bookmark it.

BWL, Thanks for the song and for making my day.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 11:30 AM

42, there are a lot of other great music threads running now, too.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Amos
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 12:46 PM

Great job, BeeDubyaEll!!

A

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 02:53 PM

Here's to those who rise to the top,
Whose poetic endeavors do never flop;
There's a place for us all in that Kingdom to come,
Where we'll all be reviled as Mudcat pond scum!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: PoppaGator
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 01:48 PM

WYSIWYG's additional verses include:

"Who dat girl her spelling bad..."

Now, I knew that jOhn's knighthood and MBE were probably phony, but it hadn't occurred to me that "he" might actually be fooling us in regard to something as basic as gender!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Helen
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 07:33 PM

Well, I'm a bit of a floater and a bit of a bottom-dweller in Mudpond, and I find all of the verses pretty funny. I'd be careful about casting nasturtiums about PhD's and such, though, because we BS-ers are all highly edjuckated, that's why we're so good at BS-ing. We done lerned how to do it.

Helen

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 01:38 AM

BWL

That is really, really good.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 04 Sep 04 - 11:49 PM

And if you don't know Three Little Fishes, it's in the DT here.

May you forever sing Boop boop dittum dattum wattum, choo...hehehe

And if that's not enough, here's the tune. hehehe again (link will disappear in a year)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Down in de Bottom Where de BS Dwells
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 10:58 PM

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