Does anyone have an ABC of the three-verse version of this song? It appears as if every line has a different tune, appropriately for a sequitur of non sequiturs.

The New Christy Minstrels recorded four lines of it (knothole, shore, snake's hips, boy's best friend) as part of a nonsense medley. I think the medley is the one titled "A Treasury of Nonsense" on the Tell Tales! LP (1960s); Amazon has a reissue on CD. The medly also contained this song:


THE HEFFALUMP

Well, I went to hunt the heffalump in the land of Bilders Meer
And if you do not know the place I'll tell you where it's near:
It's not too close to Freeglestown and farther still from Glarf,
But you know you're near to Bilders Meer when you hear the heffalump snarf.

Oh, the Heffalump is fourteen feet when measured ear to ear,
And though he has but three of them, he frankly cannot hear.
His nose is green, his eye is red, his tail is turquoise blue,
And may I be a bingle if my story isn't true!


My aural transcription, prepared from the LP long ago. Sorry, I don't have attribution info. As I recall, the first part and the last line were spoken, not sung.