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Thread #63324   Message #1027243
Posted By: GUEST,Cheryl Lee
01-Oct-03 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Uncle Remus (children's song)
Subject: Lyr Req: Uncle Remus (children's song)
My son is studying Uncle Remus in school. We were talking about it and I sang him the chorus and only verse I remember of a song about Uncle Remus that I learned in 2nd or 3rd grade. He loves it and keeps asking for other verses; I can't remember any. What I remember follows. Do any of you know this? Can anyone contribute additional verses? Thanks.

Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus says
Gather round here little children before you go to bed
Now give me your attention and turn your ears to pay
And I'll tell you how the animals got that way.

The leopard pappy got the gout from eating too much speckled trout
His mammy dreamed of polkey-dots, and that's how the leopard got his spots
That's what Uncle Remus says, that's what Uncle Remus says
His mammy dreamed of polkey-dots, and that's how the leopard got his spots.

More, more, tell us more.
More, more, tell us more.

(Then another animal, then another....)