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Thread #95511 Message #1858075
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Oct-06 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Hagalena Magalena
Subject: ADD: Hagalena Magalena
Now, the way my sister used to sing it was more like this:
HAGALENA MAGALENA
CHORUS
Hagalena Magalena
Whoopensteiner Walkenheimer
Mooga Mooga Mooga
Was her name.
She had long hair down her back
The ends were yellow and the roots were black
A ten-ton truck hit Magalene
They had to buy a new machine
She had two teeth in her mouth
One pointed north and the other pointed south
(from memory - I'm sure I'll remember more verses later.)
If I recall correctly, my sister learned this at Camp Singing Hills, the camp of the Girl Scouts of Racine, Wisconsin. My sister's camp name was Frankie. In the 1980's in Sacramento, I met a woman who had known my sister as Frankie, not as Mary Ann.
I suppose that in all fairness, I should ask my sister to drop by and comment. I suppose that in all fairness, I also should admit that there may have been a few things that I did to drive her crazy, too....
I think there was a verse about Seven-Up, but I can't remember that one.
Let's see if I can remember or remember and extrapolate some others:
She had two eyes in her head
One was yellow and the other was red
-Joe-