The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110016   Message #2303667
Posted By: Charley Noble
01-Apr-08 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama in the Gutter?
Subject: RE: BS: Obama in the Gutter?
Jack-

This thread reminds me of a bowling parody of an old sea shanty:

Words by Mark Cohen ©
As sung by Bob Walser at Mystic Sea Port in 1992
Minor changes by Charlie Ipcar
Tune: "Roll the Woodpile Down"

The Bowling Shanty


C----F-------G- C------F----C---G
Well, I know a cure for grief and pain,
Dm----------C--G-C--F
'Way down the al-ley way,
C--------------G-C---F-----C--G
Let's go down to the bowl-ing lanes
Am-------Dm-----C--F----C
And we'll roll the old ball down!

Chorus:

F-----C---F-----C
Bowl-ing, bowl-ing!
--------F-----C--------------Dm--Am
We're bowl-ing the whole year 'round!
------C------F------G----C-----Dm-Am/F/C/G
That brown gal of mine bowled a two-o-nine –
Am------Dm------C--F----C
And we'll roll the old ball down!

When I was young and in me prime...
I'd blow them pins down ten at a time...

I once knew a guy called Curley Brown...
He'd bowl a ball weighed seven hundred pounds...

When Curley let flew with that ball...
He'd blow a big hole in the backstop wall...

He'd blow them pins into little bits...
And still be left with a seven/ten split...

It's one more frame and that'll do...
And it's "Miller Time" when we're all through...*

* New verse

Cheerily,
Charley Noble