Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store

Subject: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 09:09 AM

I had a little candy store, business it was bad
So I asked (someone? My wife?) and this is what she said (pronounced to rhyme)... anybody know this song? Thanks,

-Mrr

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 10:47 AM

Found this,

I had a little candy store,
Business was so bad,
I asked mine mama what to do,
This is what she said.
Take a little gasoline,
Put it on the floor.
Take a match,
Give a scratch,
Poof, no candy store.

Here:
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol02/vol02.111
Interesting site.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,allan S.
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 11:03 AM

I learned it back in the 1950's at U-Conn folk song club.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,riggy
Date: 30 Nov 05 - 12:10 PM

sung to the tune of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, so I'd guess this falls into the anti-semitic genre'. Something about it makes me think it was written by someone jewish, so it's like using the N word in rap.   The chorus I've heard [ from Danny Kornbloom of
Catskill Mts NY ] runs:

Oy vey iz mere, no more candy store
Oy vey iz mere, boint it to da floor
Took out an insurance policy
Made my wife beneficiary
Bought a house in Miami
No more candy store

Riggy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,Jill Tallmer
Date: 07 Jul 15 - 05:43 PM

My mom just started singing this in the middle of a discussion about baseball and national anthems. She's about to turn 90. She was very excited to see that her song was Googleable. Thank you, Mudcat--especially for pointing out that "bad" rhymes with "said" in fake Yiddish. Mom sings it straight, so it never rhymed.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,vivian billick
Date: 19 Nov 22 - 03:12 PM

i learned this song at a jewish camp in the laurentians north of montreal

once i had a candy store
business was so bad
i asked a man what to do
this is what he said
take a can of gasoline
spill it on the floor
take a match
make a scratch
no more candy store
hey, candy store, candy store
no more candy store !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GerryM
Date: 19 Nov 22 - 04:00 PM

I'm sure I've seen another, longer thread about this song elsewhere on this site. Maybe the two could be combined, or at any rate linked to each other.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 03:37 AM

Next time we see Riggy at the Mudcat Singaround, we need to ask him to sing this.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 06:47 PM

Dad used to sing these lyrics when the Israeli national anthem played.

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 10 May 25 - 04:18 PM

As a very young child my Mom would sing this to me. Here are the lyrics that she would sing. "Isaac had a candy store business was so poor he took a match and gave a scratch no more candy store"

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: Robert B. Waltz
Date: 10 May 25 - 06:34 PM

GUEST.Paul wrote: As a very young child my Mom would sing this to me. Here are the lyrics that she would sing. "Isaac had a candy store business was so poor he took a match and gave a scratch no more candy store"

Hm. Is it coincidence that:
1. Isaac Asimov's parents ran a candy store
2. They were very poor
3. They were Jewish

Their candy store did not burn down -- but IIRC Judah Asimov (Isaac's father) retired to Florida. (I won't swear to that last point, which is why I didn't number it.)

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: robomatic
Date: 11 May 25 - 08:07 AM

My first dormitory at College had been majority Hispanic. I hadn't known many Hispanics. One of the upperclassmen there, a proud well-built guy, told me that sometimes people said things to him that he didn't know whether they were being funny or over-the-line prejudicial. His rule: "If they're smiling, they're funny, or TRYING to be funny. If they're not smiling, they're insulting your race."

And of course, there's the legendary quote from Owen Wister's The Virginian
"When you call me that, SMILE!"

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: GerryM
Date: 11 May 25 - 05:32 PM

Here's the other thread: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=23017 Subject: yiddish? take a match give a scratch