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Thread #90391   Message #1712911
Posted By: Azizi
07-Apr-06 - 09:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thread Thread, The
Subject: RE: BS: Thread Thread, The
See this adaptation of this traditional children's song that was recorded in 1964 by Chubby Checker {of "Let's Twist" fame:

GOT TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER
"This is a sad story
About a girl named Mary Mac
And her wondering lover Bob Needle
(Group) Oh! Softly
I can hear her calling
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bob
Hey Bob
Mary Mac Mac Mac
All dressed in black black black
Don't cha know I'm trying trying trying
Just to come on back back back
Cause I took a plane plane plane
But there was some rain rain rain
And there was no flyin flyin flyin
So I took a train train train
Oh Mary Mac Mac Mac
It went off the track track track
Can't you see I'm dying dying dying
Just to come on back back back
(Group) Oh! Softly
I can hear you calling
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bob
Hey Bob
(Instrumental Break)
Well I took a boat boat boat
But it wouldn't float float float
So I kept on a puffin puffin puffin
That was all she wrote wrote wrote
So I must wear my cross cross cross
And I bought a horse horse horse
But it just keeps runnin runnin runnin
All around the track track track
Baby I ain't lyin lyin lyin
Can't you see that I'm tryin tryin tryin
Don't cha know I'm tryin tryin tryin
Just to come on back
To Mary Mac
(Group) Oh! Softly
I can hear her holler
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle - Bobba Needle
Hey Bob
Hey Bob
Oh Yeah
Hey Bob"

From: http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/233121.html

Note the inclusion of the lines from the traditional African American children's rhyme "[Miss]Mary Mack".