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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST Date: 11 Jul 03 - 10:38 PM The old woman who swallowed a fly put paid to quite a lot of animals. McDonalds Kitchen has a line...'One more forgotten kitty who's now Kentucky Fried.' Ground Hog. And that awful country song about Mary Ann. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Willie-O Date: 11 Jul 03 - 10:21 PM Well, there's this one of mine. The dead animal is kind of just local colour, but there it is. Stinkin. W-O |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: COINWOLF Date: 11 Jul 03 - 06:28 PM "I had a Hippopotamus" has a verse "I borrowed a machine gun from my soldier nephew percy, and showed my hippopotamus no hippopotamercy!" |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Blackcatter Date: 11 Jul 03 - 11:26 AM You know it's funny. over the years, I've put the last post on threads a number of times. I don't usually visit every day, so I'll post a comment and a few days later come back to see the thread and find that it died with my comment. Odd. I guess we just ran out of songs here. pax y'all |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,cookieless Blackcatter Date: 10 Jul 03 - 02:02 AM Ya know, it sounds like a song that touches on many of these songs woud be a possibly wonderful thing. Singin' the praises of dead animal songs, etc. Anyone up to the challenge, or all the "good" songwriters disgusted by this whole thread. Also - on another tack - How about songs where animals are having sex? We had a milk cow, no milk would it give, We had a milk cow, no milk would it give. My wife said honey, we're loosin' money, Because that milk cow won't give no milk. One day a rooster came into our yard, And knocked that milk cow, right off of her guard. She's givin' eggnog, just like she used to Since that rooster came into our yard. She's givin' eggnog, just like she used to Since that rooster came into our yard. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE BUDDY (Hank Snow) From: Cluin Date: 10 Jul 03 - 01:30 AM There's Hank Snow's "Little Buddy". My Dad used to pull out the guitar and sing this one to us when we were kids and make my sisters cry every time (but not me though. Nope! No way! I defy you to prove it!) they heard that line "You're too late, sir, my doggy's dead". No Dad! Not that song!... Little Buddy by Hank Snow Broken hearted and so sad, golden curls all wet with tears Twas a picture of sorrow to see Kneeling close to the side of his pal and only pride A little lad these words he told me: He was such a lovely doggy and to me he was such fun But today as we played by the way A drunken man got mad at him because he barked in joy He beat him and he's dying here today Will you call the doctor please and tell him if he comes right now He'll save my precious doggie, 'cause I'll pray Then he stroked the fluffy head, but his little pal was dead Just a shiver and he slowly passed away (4th and 5th verse are spoken) He didn't know his dog had died, so I told him, as he cried "Come with me son, we'll get that doctor right away" "But I can't leave him here alone, I must get my doggy home So while you're gone I'll kneel beside him, sir, and pray" But when I returned he had his little pal upon his knee And the teardrops they were blinding his big blue eyes "You're too late, sir, my doggy's dead and no help can save him now But I'll meet my precious Buddy up in the sky" By a tiny narrow grave, where the willows sadly wave Are these words on a shingle of pine: "Little Buddy, rest in peace, God will watch you through the years 'Cause I told Him in my prayers that you were mine." |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: rock chick Date: 09 Jul 03 - 06:22 PM wrote this when they were killing all those farm animals cos of the so called foot and mouth. They took the gun to the aminals head It looked them in the eyes They shot it dead Cry cry the animals die Cry cry the ammonals die The killing fields are thick with smoke No frolicking lambs, no carves to stroke Cry cry the animals die Cry cry the animals die Life should be cherished, Not taken with the gun Or the lethal injection, Watch the animals run Watch the animals run They took the gun to the animals head It looked them in the eyes They shot it dead Cry cry the animals die Cry cry the ammonals die The farmers cry, I wonder why Their animals are gone Is it money, is it greed Or maybe because there really was no need Can we learn to live as one? In peace and harmony Not by the gun Not by the gun They took the gun to the animals head It looked them in the eyes They shot it dead Cry cry the animals die Cry cry the ammonals die |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: JennyO Date: 09 Jul 03 - 11:18 AM Oh Fred the fish, oh Fred the fish Why are you lying on that dish? You did not see the hook ahead And now your head is filled with bread. Oh Fred the fish, oh Fred the fish Why are you lying on that dish? |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Peterr Date: 09 Jul 03 - 06:28 AM Susannah's a Funniful Man, with the little pigs turned into sausage (snort) ossage (raspberry) ossage (whistle) iderly ossage bacon black pudding etc |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Dave Bryant Date: 08 Jul 03 - 07:05 AM To the tune of "Going to the Zoo". They're turning my pony into glue tomorrow, Glue tomorrow, glue tomorrow. They're turning my pony into glue tomorrow, He's going to boil all day. He's going to be glue, glue, glue, Bostic and Yahoo, hoo, hoo. Araldite too, too, too. He's going to be glue. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Wolfgang Date: 08 Jul 03 - 05:50 AM to be sung as a round in different languages: Le coq est mort le coq est mort Le coq est mort le coq est mort il ne chant plus cocodie, cocoda il ne chant plus cocodie, cocoda coco coco coco coco die cocoda coco coco coco coco die cocoda and then of course: Der Hahn ist tot// er wird nicht mehr krähen The cock is dead // he will no more crow Noster gallus est mortuus // ille non cantabit and maybe a dozen more languages Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Naemanson Date: 08 Jul 03 - 03:37 AM There's the Sailor's Grace: Old horse, old horse, what brought you here, From Sacarap, to Portland Pier, All worn out from sore abuse, They salt you down for the sailor's use. And the Dead Horse Shanty though there is no real dead animal in that one. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE WIFE OF LINCOLNSHIRE From: Emma B Date: 07 Jul 03 - 01:44 PM As requested, - just because it's you Joe but I warn you it's not for the squeamish! THE WIFE OF LINCOLNSHIRE, collected from Peter Bones of Harbury 2001 as sung? by Pete (The Melodian Repairer and dog lover) Grassby There was a wife from Lincolnshire to market she did go She took her dog for company, across the ice and snow Returning from the market they were drenched in freezing rain So she put her dog in the microwave to dry it out again So she put her dog in the microwave to dry it out again A passer-by saw the cloud of smoke and called the fire brigade The fireman said 'Now here I am, I'm here to give you aid No need to make a statement, we know what you will say You put your dog in the microwave, it's the second case today' A veterinary surgeon kept a practice down the street The wife begged him to resurrect the blackened lump of meat The surgeon started laughing and guffawed 'This dog is wrecked If you put your dog in a microwave what more do you expect?' Her husband came from work that night and said 'Here I am Your cooking smells delicious, is it chicken, pork or lamb?' The wife began to tremble and a tear came to her eye 'I put the dog in the microwave just like a slice of pie!' She went to see a medium who charged a hefty fee She said 'We must communicate, this dog was dear to me' An ectoplasm dog appeared and wailing like a ghost Said 'You put the dog in the microwave, and frazzled it to toast' The neighbours were inquisitive and tactlessly enquired 'We haven't seen your doggy, has he recently expired?' The wife she trembled terribly and then began to howl' No, I put the dog in the microwave, when I should have used a towel' She sued the manufacturers of the oven she had bought 'The oven is too dangerous' she said in open court 'You did not read the manual' the lawyer said 'just see If you put a dog in the microwave, it voids the guarantee' The whole affair was featured in the early evening news The RSPCA complained of 'Serious Dog Abuse' The Chinese correspondent sent a simple message back 'If you put a dog in a microwave, it makes a tasty snack' Definitely a very late night session (Moor and Coast tent) type song! |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs (this one is a bird) From: GUEST,Yorky Date: 07 Jul 03 - 09:38 AM I remember being sung this when a child( in North Yorkshire UK) All the birds of the air were a sighing and a sobbing when they heard of the death of poor cock robin...when they heard of the death of poor cock robin ! Who saw him die?... I said the fly... I forget the rest... well, it was 50 years ago! |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Charley Noble Date: 07 Jul 03 - 09:14 AM I don't think anyone's mentioned "Ghost Chickens in the Sky" but I haven't re-explored all the old threads. WYSIWYG mentioned above my revised version of "Dead Dog Scrumpy" in which I added an essential chorus and then used a different tune, "Eight More Miles to Louisville," to sing it; here's the MP3 link to my personal website if you're interested:Dead Dog Cider Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Genie Date: 07 Jul 03 - 01:31 AM celtaddict, re "dead duck" songs, there's a very funny songwriter in Bellingham, WA (by way of Vancouver, BC) named Zeke Hoskin, who has a song with this chorus: "O blow the horn loudly and rev up the truck! We're off to the boondocks to murder the duck!" One of the lines in one verse is: "We don't know who shot him but the bugger's sure dead." And other wonderful verses about drunken hunters and dead ducks (with more pounds of shot than pounds of duck). |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Chief Chaos Date: 06 Jul 03 - 03:59 PM Remember Nina's 99 Luft Balloons (or the english rendered 99 Red Balloons)? Someone did a parody called "99 Dead Baboons" |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Mr Red Date: 06 Jul 03 - 03:12 PM GUEST,celtaddict Les Barker is well switched-on web wise but you may have to buy his merchandise to get the words. A lot of his verse is based on a tune rhythm of some sort. Someone set his Titanic poem where a Polar Bear is asking a clerk at the White Star line offices "Have you got any news of the Iceberg (my family were on it you see)" and that has been set to music. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Jul 03 - 01:01 PM Be My Vest MP3 Scroll down to 'Songs' Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Jul 03 - 12:38 PM wordfella : ""Fur Coat" by a fella named Carruthers is brilliant, but I can't find it on the web. Nashville's banjo comic Mike Snider has a recording of it." More word association, in one episode of "The Simpsons" Montgomery Burns ends up with a litter from 'Santas Little Helper' wanting to skin him for his coat (a la Cruella de Ville) and shows his collection of clothing made from animal skins while singing "Be My Vest" (a parody of 'Be Our Guest' from 'Beauty & The Beast') Almost finished typing this and thought of checking 'The Net'. Lyrics are Here, at Simpsons Song Book Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Emma B Date: 06 Jul 03 - 11:52 AM The last verse to the Froggy went a courtin' version I know ends:= That was the end of him and her Ding dang dong go the wedding bells No little tadpoles covered in for Ding etc... Aarrhhh....... |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,celtaddict Date: 06 Jul 03 - 11:44 AM Wow, who would have thought this topic would have struck such a chord? I think I will be putting together two sets, one big one of the "Moggy" sort and possibly a more plaintive one as well. I obviously have some searching to do. I have some vague recollection of one with a duck, besides Nell Flaherty and The Fox. . . May the Turtle Be Unbroken? Wonderful! Are the words somewhere? |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Mr Red Date: 06 Jul 03 - 10:34 AM Nigel Parsons Thankyour for that. I was on the right lines anyway. What about the A.E.Houseman poem set to music by I know not who. the tag line is "He who sleeps under the blackthorn tonight" |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Sooz Date: 06 Jul 03 - 09:10 AM Les Barker's "May the turtle be unbroken" as sung by Derek Brimstone. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Genie Date: 06 Jul 03 - 07:23 AM The Fox - The goose, of course, gets eaten. Froggy Went A Courtin' - Most versions end with the wedding party being swallowed up by a snake, etc. Armadillos Waltz - One verse of this is about "armadillo stew" after the "armadillos waltz on the highway late at night" and a truck comes along. El Burro - (Spanish) A lament for the town burro, who has died. Gallo Del Cielo - Lyrics here in the forum. Gallo Del Cielo is a fighting cock that kills many an opponent but finally meets his match. The Last Leviathan - OK, it's more about species extinction (actual or threatened) than about individual dead animals, but... Barney - Ian Tyson sang this song about having to "put down" a beloved horse. The Roadkill Connection - parody of "The Rainbow Connection" Old Dog Tray - Stephen Foster - I can't remember if Tray dies in the song or not. But since it's a Civil War era song, he's no doubt dead by now. ;) Kitty Popcorn - This is another Civil War era song, a real tear-jerker, about a dear departed kitty cat. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: wordfella Date: 06 Jul 03 - 07:15 AM "Fur Coat" by a fella named Carruthers is brilliant, but I can't find it on the web. Nashville's banjo comic Mike Snider has a recording of it. I'll keep looking... |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Jul 03 - 04:22 AM Chie Chaos: mentioned "Also...Ozzie Fudd, the Wabbit Swayer With his black leather hunting outfit and twelve guage shotgun guitar" Reminiscent of the cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" in which Elmer Fudd sings "Kill de Wabbit" ttto "Ride of the Valkyries", and ends with "I did, I killed de wabbit!" Nigel |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE HUNTING SONG (Tom Lehrer) From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Jul 03 - 04:17 AM Mr Red: TOM LEHRER REVISITED 8. The Hunting Song Almost every day during the hunting season you see at least one item in the newspapers about somebody who has shot somebody else, under the impression that he was a deer with a red hat, perhaps. Maybe a large flesh-colored squirrel. At any rate, it seems to me that this marks an encouraging new trend in the field of blood sports, and deserves a new type of hunting song which I present herewith. I always will remember, 'Twas a year ago November, I went out to hunt some deer On a morning bright and clear. I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow: Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. I was in no mood to trifle, I took down my trusty rifle And went out to stalk my prey. What a haul I made that day! I tied them to my fender, and I drove them home somehow: Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. The law was very firm, it Took away my permit, The worst punishment I ever endured. It turned out there was a reason, Cows were out of season, And one of the hunters wasn't insured. People ask me how I do it, And I say "There's nothin' to it, You just stand there lookin' cute, And when something moves, you shoot!" And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now: Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred Guernsey cow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes *In the orchestral version of this song, the last two stanzas are repeated. Taken fron This site which seems to have all Tom Lehrer's songs with MIDIs Nigel |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NOBODY'S MOGGY'S LAND (Bob Kanefsky) From: Blackcatter Date: 06 Jul 03 - 12:05 AM I ran across this one (pun intentional) in the DT a couple of years back: NOBODY'S MOGGY'S LAND (No Moggy's Land) (Bob Kanefsky) Well, how d'ya do, old Moggy the Cat? I just noticed you landed where I almost sat. D'ya mind if I push you a bit to the side? I've been driving all day on the road where you died. You've been squashed like some butterfly pressed between glass Were you hit by a truck that was moving too fast? Did he slam on the brake as he saw you go past? Or, Moggy the Cat, did he step on the gas? CHORUS Did he honk the horn loudly? Did you stand your ground proudly? Did a shadow fall o'er ya as the truck mowed you down? Did your eyes glow in that fleeting darkness? Did the birds come and pick at your carcass? The ground squirrels and mice all seem happy today, The butterflies frolic; the hummingbirds play. A mockingbird sits there composing a dirge Till he finally yields to his scavenger urge. The robins and sparrows all join in the feast In their joyous relief that the terror has ceased. And the birds dance around you, not sad in the least, Like the Munchkins danced over the Witch of the East. Old Moggy the Cat, I still wonder why You road-kill look so damned surprised when you die. Did you think that some animal spirit survives? Did you really believe that a cat has nine lives? Well, if that is true, this is life Number Ten Getting ever more flat, spinning round now and then, As the cars run you over again and again And again and again and again and again! Copyright 1989 Bob Kanefsky; reprinted with permission Tune "No Man's Land," by Eric Bogle |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAT GOT DEAD (Heywood Banks) From: Chief Chaos Date: 05 Jul 03 - 10:38 PM There's also
THE CAT GOT DEAD
Oh, the cat got dead; we put him in a box
But in the middle of the night, a dog started sniffin’.
Well, throughout the house she has cat curiosities,
When the woman saw the cat, there began the pandemonium:
From the floor to counter and all around the kitchen,
Old John Duke drives a delivery route [After a pause, softly:] Yuck!
Oh, the cat got dead; we put him in a box * * *
It carries on until we find that the cat wasn't really dead merely "catatonic" (groan) and he gets chased by a dog out into the street where he gets run over...Then we start over with "the cat got dead". |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,celtaddict Date: 05 Jul 03 - 07:24 PM Blackcatter: Thank you. I have known that song in that version since childhood, and learned it from someone with an accent, and never knew what the Irishman sang (or said, in her version), and since then have only heard varying versions without that last verse. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Mr Red Date: 05 Jul 03 - 07:11 PM Oh what was that one with a chorus that tallied the huntin 'n shooting ".... two game wardens and a cow" with the adjectival addition or "purte bred Jersey" for the bovine on the closing chorus. Sounds like a Tom Lehrer song or a Woody Allen story - probably an amalgum "in the style of". Seem to remember the line about game wardens not being in season. I have a rabbit roadkill song - all the usual jokes in there. Not on my web site thought Todd the Toad is there as a "as heard" version. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Abby Sale Date: 05 Jul 03 - 06:09 PM Oor Cat's Deid (learned from Phil & Sid Taylor, a Glasgow street song in _101_ Scottish Songs) Lingle lingle lang tang oor cat's deid Whit did she dee wi'? Wi' a sair heid! A' ye that kent her When she was alive Come to her funeral Atween four and five. ========== From: Eric Berge Icky-gooey was a worm A mighty worm was he; He sat upon a railroad track, A train he did not see. Icky-gooey. <--- Last line spoken. ========= It's so lonesome in the saddle since my horse died Ridin' on the range ain't no more fun It's so lonesome in the saddle since my horse died Reckon I'll get another 'un. ============ From Margaret MacArthur Oh the grasshopper sat on the sweet potato vine The sweet potato vine, the sweet potato vine the turkey gobler came up behind And snapped him off the sweet potato vine =============== In Johnnie o' Braidesley (Child 114) his twa grey dogs die. ================ And, of course, Ninety-nine Dead Turtles, Hanging on the Wall. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Jul 03 - 04:50 PM "Puppies Cooked in Brine" by "Urban Tapestry", Here Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,Gareth - Cleaning PC 'n forgot to log in Date: 05 Jul 03 - 02:32 PM Then there is Lehrer "Poisening Pideons in the Park" - Click 'Ere Gareth |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,celtaddict Date: 05 Jul 03 - 02:23 PM My other favorite term for the flat red mess is "Road Pizza" which arose from a bizarre "cheer" at Boy Scout camp. It involved the circle around the campfire being divided in halves and was a sort of call-and-response. A: Ribbit, ribbit. B: Vroom, vroom. A: (louder) Ribbit, ribbit. B: (louder) Vroom, vroom. ...and so forth louder and faster until the leader clapped his hands together, and all yelled in unison, "Road pizza!" |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:33 PM And don't forget the unbearably maudlin reference to the dead dog in Mister Bojangles..."the dog up and died, dog up and died...after 30 years he still grieves". Argh! I snort every time I hear it badly performed by someone who ought to learn a new song or two...or even write one. :-) I bet Jerry Jeff Walker is sick of it too. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Geoff the Duck Date: 05 Jul 03 - 11:51 AM A friend of mine returned from a trip to America, with the term Bugsplat! for the flies on the windscreen. That sounds like a good title too! Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,celtaddict Date: 05 Jul 03 - 11:42 AM Songs2play: that is not at all the sort of song I had in mind for a kids' set of the "Nobody's Moggy" ilk, but sounds like a wonderful song. I have not heard it. Is it recorded somewhere? My brothers and I refer to the squashed-by-the-roadside amphibians as "Frisbee frogs" (don't ask) and it seems to me there must be a song in there. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Rapparee Date: 05 Jul 03 - 10:20 AM In "Hi Ho Says Rowley" the frog that lives in the well suffers when he leaves his new bride because "...as the frog was crossing the stream Hi Ho say Rowley A big dog came and he gobbled him up." |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Snuffy Date: 05 Jul 03 - 08:06 AM Carrion Crow - "he shot his old sow clean through the heart |
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Subject: Lyr Add: OLD BROWN DOG From: songs2play Date: 05 Jul 03 - 02:52 AM OLD BROWN DOG Ralph McTell That old brown dog sleeps in the rain Unless the sun has shone. That old brown dog is all alone, Since Old Bill been gone. And sleeping in the rain Only gives a dog a bad name. If Bill were alive Well I know he would decide To have the same thing done. That old brown dog he smells so bad, Say the people from the town. That old brown dog is almost lame, Someone should put him down. It would be an act of kindness, You know it's for the best. You bring a rope, bring a gun, And it'll all be over Before the dog can guess. Could an old brown dog have become wise Guessed they were all after him. His hearing was failing, and his eyes Were fast growing dim. On the day they came to kill him He sensed a rabbit on a log. Did anybody see a rabbit Chased across the meadows By an old brown dog. That old brown dog, tail wagging, As he laid himself down. It did not seam to matter, That the rabbit had long gone to ground. And there in the summer heat, His old heart ceased to beat And high above the meadow The skylarks singing as the spark went out. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Blackcatter Date: 05 Jul 03 - 12:49 AM The Cat Came Back Now the cat sat on the porch and he ate a piece of cheese, An Irishman came by, he was feeling well at ease. The cat he was a-smiling, for he was fully fed; The Irishman sang "Britannia!" and the cat fell dead -- But his ghost came back, he wouldn't stay away, He was sitting on the porch on the very next day. His ghost came back, he didn't want to roam, He haunted Freddie's house and his home sweet home. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Nancy King Date: 04 Jul 03 - 11:44 PM And then there's the late Jan Harmon's song lamenting that "The State of Maine license is the only license with a dead animal on it" (referring to the red lobster on the license plates). Cheers, Nancy |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: LadyJean Date: 04 Jul 03 - 11:23 PM "Down on the bank of the yankity yank. The bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. He stubbed his toe and in he fell, and the neighbors all said he went to hell." Presumably the frog was dead. |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Jul 03 - 10:57 PM Dunderbeck, and Mrs. Murphy's Chowder-- between the two of them they killed off most of any good-sized town's animal population! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: Amergin Date: 04 Jul 03 - 09:44 PM Well it is far from funny...but there is Eric Bogle's song As If He Knows... |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: GUEST,etoile Date: 04 Jul 03 - 09:35 PM this is sort of a little lame one to the tune of oh christmas tree... oh tom the toad, oh tom the toad, why did you hop into the road? you were alive, but now you're dead your face looks like tire tread oh tom the toad, oh tom the toad, why did you hop into the road? |
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Subject: RE: Dead animal songs From: mack/misophist Date: 04 Jul 03 - 09:31 PM The Beat Farmers had a great song called I'm A Happy Boy that featured the remains of 'my little dog Spot'. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE SOW TOOK THE MEASLES (from Burl Ives) From: GUEST,Puffenkinty Date: 04 Jul 03 - 09:17 PM Burl Ives used to sing a little number called "The Sow Took the Measles" It goes: How do you think I begin in the world? I got me a sow and several other things, The sow took the measles and she died in the spring. What do you think I made of her hide? The very best saddle that you ever did ride, Saddle or bridle or any such thing, The sow took the measles and she died in the spring. What do you think I made of her nose? The very best thimble that ever sewed clothes. Thimble or thread or any such thing, The sow took the measles and she died in the spring. What do you think I made of her tail? The very best whup that ever sot sail, Whup or whup or any such thing, The sow took the measles and she died in the spring. What do you think I made of her feet? The very best pickles that you ever did eat, Pickles or glue or any such thing, The sow took the measles and she died in the spring. There may have been other verses but these are all I remember. (A mind is a terrible thing....) |
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