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Thread #1615   Message #1033480
Posted By: Joybell
10-Oct-03 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: a worm song
Subject: RE: lyrics: a worm song
Maybe not for very little kids but "Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine" by Matthew Gregory Lewis c1790. (adapted, I believe, by the great Sam Cowell in the mid 19th century) Has the immortal lines:

....The worms they crept in and the worms they crept out
And sported his eyes and his temples about.....

The whole song takes about 10 minutes to sing but around a camp fire with friends with long attention spans it's a beauty.