Another set of lyrics, for the collectors out there...


The Lunatic's Lullaby
Music & Lyrics by: Leslie Moore, Johnny Tucker & Edgar Leslie
From the 1926 sheet music:

I'm up here in the bug house. My brain is in a rut
My keeper says I'm crazy, But he is off his nut
I'm just as sane as you are, And I can prove it too
For when you hear my lullaby You'll know I'm not cuckoo

Chorus: Oh! I was born at night one morn And the whistles rang Boom! Boom!
I boil a cake and drink a steak When the mud pies are in bloom
If six and six are nine, Does ice come from a mine?
Then old Black Joe's an Eskimo And pork's from porcupine

A pig or cow can bark meow But a goldfish likes to sing
I saw a frog swim up a log But he fell and broke his wing
I know that camels sail the sea, That we get honey from a flea
That every horse can climb a tree On the Road to Mandalay
(repeat Chorus)

Oh, me! Oh, my!
That's the lunatic's lullaby!


Other remembered versions:


Oh, you loop-de-loop in your noodle soup Just to give your socks a shine.
I'm guilty judge. I ate the fudge. Three cheers for Old Lang Syne!
I cannot tell a lie. I hocked an apple pie.
It's on a tree beneath the sea Above the bright, blue sky.

Oh, if Easter eggs don't wash their legs, Their children will have ducks. (Quack, quack!)
I'd rather buy a lemon pie For forty-seven bucks.
Way down in Barcelonia, They jumped into the foamia
But that is all balonia. Paderewski blow your horn. (Toot, toot!)

Oh they call me old Napoleon But I'm not him at all
I'm just a North Dakotian Come up from old Saint Paul
I'll sue them all for slander. I'll make them all repent
For how can I be Bonaparte When I'm the president?