I have loved looking at all the slightly different versions of this very favorite song of mine. I posted the version I learned because the second verse is a little different than the others, with the man coming into the store, and the head-cheese... I grew up in Montana.
There was a good old Dutchman, his name was Dunderbeck, He was very fond of sauerkraut and poodle-dogs, I'd 'pect He wanted to make sausage, and make it very fine, So he got himself a patent on a sausager machine,
Oh Say, Mr. Dunderbeck, How could you be so mean? To grind up all those cats and dogs in your sausager machine, The long-tail rats and pussycats will never more be seen, For they're all ground up in sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine.
One day there cam a runnin' into the little store, A man to see about some head-cheese, a standin' on the floor, And as he was a waitin' before his very eyes, The sausage head got up and began to dance around the room.