04 Jul 23 - 10:07 AM (#4176087) Subject: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e When & where did you learn the recitation "Crazy, I was crazy once" ? in kinda a rap beat: Posted by oldhippie, March 6, 2010. See here:https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=2857994 Any help with getting an earlier date for this repeated recitation is appreciated. |
04 Jul 23 - 03:22 PM (#4176091) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e My best friend says that she learned the "Crazy" recitation in the 1980s. Does anyone have earlier memories? Variants? |
04 Jul 23 - 03:28 PM (#4176093) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me up in a rubber room! It was cold! I Dated April 21, 1993. Usenet archive comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Used as a tagline at the end of an email. See online here: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games/c/x0W7qi-HsSk/m/gUbXEI6ZqDkJ |
04 Jul 23 - 03:47 PM (#4176094) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e Eric Pyle, Fragment only, dated July 22, 1992. Usenet post to alt.games.lynx See online here: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.lynx/c/mnIvNARDzzs/m/aFAEji4T354J |
04 Jul 23 - 07:59 PM (#4176111) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: cnd "Crazy? I used to be crazy. They locked me in a rubber room with rubber rats. I hate rats. They drive me crazy... Crazy? I used to be crazy. They...Ann Gross, in The Deming Headlight, June 24th, 1993 (Deming, New Mexico) - p. 4" |
05 Jul 23 - 06:47 PM (#4176161) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e "Crazy, I was Crazy Once. From Folklore Collection by Bailey Squires. For the Introduction To Folk Studies, Fall Semester 2009. Deposited at the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Library Special Collections, Western Kentucky University. Retrieved from here: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&filename=0&article=1602&context=dlsc_fa_fin_aid&type=additional |
05 Jul 23 - 07:16 PM (#4176162) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e "I laughed so hard I thought I'd die. Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction. pg 118. 1968. See here: https://books.google.com/books?id=bb0J3VIs69UC&q=%22I+thought+I%27d+die%22+%22i+did+die%22&dq=%22I+thought+I%27d+die%22+%22i+did+die%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&printsec=frontcover&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmrIWkl_j_AhWxJH0KHd8rB54Q6AF6BAgLEAI I have verified the text above by viewing full scans at the Archive.org of the 1st edition (4th printing). This recitation is on page 118. |
06 Jul 23 - 05:54 AM (#4176177) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e == R H Y M E == From Jancie Ackerley's database of Playground Rhymes of New Zealand Children. 2006. [Private collection]. |
06 Jul 23 - 06:15 AM (#4176179) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e CIRCULAR STORY / Traditional Pg 35, Worlds in Small: An Anthology of Miniature Literary Compositions, by John Robert Colombo. 1992. See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Worlds_in_Small/5_NZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22I+did+die+.+They+buried+me+%22&dq=%22I+did+die+.+They+buried+me+%22&printsec=frontcover Another pre-internet reference. More variants of "Crazy" to follow. |
06 Jul 23 - 09:40 AM (#4176198) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e >* "Life's tough, then you die... then the worms eat you. March 21, 1996. Usent group post to rec.arts.anime by jchamber https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.anime/c/_s88B3nNAs4/m/6K5CjmCocuYJ This example has a "You? I hate you" repeating recitation. Do you know the "You? I hate you..." version? Would you please share your version, and where & when you learned it? Thanks! |
06 Jul 23 - 10:00 AM (#4176199) Subject: RE: Head? Who Said Head. I'll Takes Some of That! From: and e HEAD CHANT From the May 2001 edition of Half-Mind Hymnal by Paul "Flying Booger" Woodford. This recitation, common now among Hash House Harriers, was probably inspired by the "Crazy? I was crazy once..." recitation. This 2001 reference for "Head' is the earliest I've been able to trace the chant. The catch phrase "Head? Who said head" or "Head? I'll take some of that." appears to be older. |
06 Jul 23 - 10:45 AM (#4176206) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e ...They fucked and fucked for hours and hours Part of text "D" of the recitation "Lady Lil" collected from Mr. A. M., Columbia, Missouri, October 3, 1948. He heard it recited at Kirksville, Missouri in 1918. in Blow the Candle Out: "Unprintable" Ozark Folksongs and Folklore by Vance Randolph (Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1992), Vol. 2, page 668. Edited & annotated by G. Legman The "Head? Who said head?" shares that rhyme with the "Lady Lil" recitation. |
06 Jul 23 - 12:42 PM (#4176212) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST I was born in 1988 and learned this version as a kid in the 90s: Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room and told me to get a life. Life? What's life? It's a magazine, costs fifty cents. Rats, I only have a quarter. Rats? Rats drive me crazy! I have a feeling we may have substituted "it's a cereal" since that was a better cultural touchpoint for me at the time. |
07 Jul 23 - 07:58 PM (#4176338) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: and e Head "Head" song from Rockfish at Norman's Cay II: Return to MacDuffs CD, 2003 by Rockfish. |
10 Jul 23 - 11:00 AM (#4176524) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: NightWing The Hashing chant "Head! Who said 'Head'" you described definitely pre-dates 2001. When I started Hashing in '95 or '96, that chant--in exactly that form--was being "sung" at Circle and had been so for a long time. It definitely wasn't new at that point. I remember seeing it in Flying Booger's Hash Hymnal of about that time, but I never had it in any format but electronic and have updated my copy several times. So I don't even have the 2001 edition. BB, NightWing |
11 Jul 23 - 09:48 PM (#4176642) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,.gargoyle Night Wing - Where is your kennel/mother hash? ON-ON Sincerely, Gargoyle It has been my astounding good fortune to know Kualaha, Okinawa, Wales, UAE, Brussels, Amsterdam, and "Gypsies in the Phallus." |
12 Jul 23 - 06:57 AM (#4176657) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,and e (no cookie) I have many editions of Paul Woodford [Flying Booger] Hash Hymnal. The "Head? Who said head?" chant doesn't appear in the 1994a, 1994b, 1997, Jan 2000, or 11 Mar 2000 edition (all are the text files). I will try the Stray Dog songbook... but I don't remember seeing it there either. |
12 Jul 23 - 07:25 AM (#4176660) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,and e (no cookie) Let's do this chronologically. It is not in the following Hash House Harrier songbooks: Inter-Hash Songbook, 1986, printed book. [Cover title Hash Music 1986] And as reported above, it is not in the Flying Booger hymnal until 2001. Anyone have earlier date (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) for the "Head? Who said Head?" repeated chant? |
12 Jul 23 - 10:01 AM (#4176677) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: cnd It's referenced in several military songbooks (viewer discretion advised before opening most of the songbooks), but sadly not quoted in its entirety. Mostly just included as a throw-away tag line or joke. - Parachuting, united we fall (1978), p. 300Sadly, nothing definitive. |
12 Jul 23 - 10:57 AM (#4176682) Subject: Lyr Add: The Vikings (Stuart Slack) From: cnd Only tangentially related, so please forgive the thread creep, but this reminds me of a song guest Allan Williams shared with my a while back by The Isle of Mann Group, written by Stuart Slack and performed by Al Lawrence and Mike Williams. Recorded circa early/mid 1980s, possibly at the Ballacallin Hotel. You can hear a recording of it here, but my transcription is of a live recording Allan shared with me. THE VIKINGS (Stuart Slack, as performed by Al Lawrence and Mike Williams) Peel is a little city on the west coast on the Isle of Mann that specializes in fishing... (long pause), deviations, [second man] (and drinking), and Vikings -- particularly Vikings. The Vikings have an amazing festival every year in which loads of the local fellows get all dressed up in old sheepskin robes and things and stick painted motorcycle helmets with sheep horns stuck on the top on top of their heads and they brandish wooden swords painted with silver paint, and they go 'round, they come on in with the tide in wooden boats, and they rape and pillage all the young maidens in Peel, one at a time, and they have a marvelous time. And I've often wanted to join, but I'm not big enough. .... [skipping unrelated joke] This is what they call an audience participation song and your bit is, when we sing the chorus, there's a bit in it that goes "scooby-do, scooby-do, scooby-do." Now if you can all go -- with your hands, like that, "scooby-do, scooby-do, scooby-do." Now, you're not sitting opposite one another, so you can't get a lot of pleasure out of it, but, you can polish up somebody's head, ruffle their perm or something, ok? .... Pretend you're at the disco. [note: unfortunately the hand motion was not captured] CHORUS Why not become a Viking, you will find it to your liking To join you just grow whiskers on your chin -- scooby-do, scooby-do, scooby-do We have lots of rape and pillage in every town and village We kick off a hell of a din And we hold our Viking festival on the fourth day of July That's the day the Yanks call Independence Day And the ale and wine flows free, but it doesn't bother me I know the tourists' board are going to pay CHORUS And we get into our Viking boats and we hide behind the pier Where we smoke and play pontoon until a signal we do hear And then we roll like hell as we finish off the whiskey and the beer And the people all yell out -- "Hey lads, here come the Vikings -- My God!" CHORUS One evening when the signal came we rowed behind the pier And the skipper said, "now come on lads, don't talk" But some mist blew in the bay and we headed the wrong way And the next thing was we landed in New York -- dear me CHORUS Another time we'd reached the shore and I was first to leap Well, the lads were pretty keen on rape -- they followed me like sheep But the trouble was, the water was still seventeen feet deep! And the people all yelled out -- "Hey lads, where's the Vikings gone? They were there a minute ago?" CHORUS |
15 Jul 23 - 06:43 PM (#4176969) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,and e (no cookie) HEAD? WHO SAID HEAD? From the "Head? Who Said Head?" field recording of Tom "Fuk Stik" Tarka, recorded May 7, 2004. Listen online: https://ia804702.us.archive.org/9/items/jack_horntip_collection_field_recordings/1425%20Head%20Who%20Said%20Head%20%5BWith%20Additional%20Verse%5D.mp3 |
23 Aug 23 - 02:00 AM (#4179707) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: NightWing Re Gargoyle's question: My Mother Hash is the Colorado Full Moon H4. In addition, I used to Hash regularly with Colorado Springs H4, Denver H3, Boulder H3, Fort Collins H3, Kimchi H3, Boulder Flatlanders H3, and assorted other Colorado kennels. My Hash Names are "Little Head" and "Shut Yer Manhole". Eleven years ago, I moved from the Denver/Boulder (Colorado, USA) area to very rural southwestern Virginia and I'm now 3-4 hours (in any of several directions) to the nearest towns/cities with kennels. I went to a couple of Hash runs after I moved, but 6 hours (round trip) is a little far to go. So I have not hashed in about 10 years. :-( BB, NightWing |
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10 Nov 23 - 04:48 AM (#4185647) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,Catzardo I’m glad i’m not the only one trying to find the origin of this lol. I learned this as a cub scout years ago. Still like to use it to annoy my friends (still in scouts) |
10 Nov 23 - 04:48 AM (#4191948) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: GUEST,Catzardo I’m glad i’m not the only one trying to find the origin of this lol. I learned this as a cub scout years ago. Still like to use it to annoy my friends (still in scouts) |
13 Nov 23 - 10:00 AM (#4191949) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: Mo the caller Our never ending story was - It was a dark and stormy night And the Captain said to the first mate Tell us a story And the story went like this It was a dark and stormy night... |
13 Nov 23 - 10:00 AM (#4185834) Subject: RE: Folklore: Crazy? I Was Crazy Once (recitation) From: Mo the caller Our never ending story was - It was a dark and stormy night And the Captain said to the first mate Tell us a story And the story went like this It was a dark and stormy night... |