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Thread #62145   Message #2806237
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Jan-10 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nip It in the Bud (Barney Fife)
Subject: Lyr Add: MAYBERRY RAP
Here's a nearly complete transcription (OK, I got bored near the end) of one of the songs at The Andy Griffith Show Fan Club web site:


MAYBERRY RAP

NARRATOR: If it's south you're bound,
Let me tell you 'bout a town
That you prob'ly will not see,
'Cause it's kind of a fable
And it's only on cable
And they call it Mayberree.
Got a sheriff in the town
That was ... gone around
'Cause he's only a local jailer,
And the store has a slant(?)
'Cause he lives with his aunt
And his name is Andy Taylor.

AUNT BEE: Andy, Andy, dinner's on the table. Come home.
Andy, Andy, dinner's on the table. Come home.

ANDY: Well, my name is Andy.
Folks say I'm dandy.
I'm a sheriff without a gun.
Now, let me see,
There's me an' Aint Bee,
An' Opie, he's my son.
Now, I got me a man
Always at my command,
And between us there's no strife,
'Cause he's true and he's blue
An' he's my cousin, too,
And his name is Barney Fife.

Say, Barney why don't you come out of the back room and rap for these folks, Barn, come on now.

BARNEY: All right, all right. Kind of a trick to this, ... I used to be in the choir. Mi mi, mi mi mi. All right. Stand back. Here goes.

I'm Deputy Fife
The law is my life.
And you can say it's in my blood,
'Cause whenever there's trouble
I'm there on the double
To nip it in the bud.
Got a gun, never cock it,
Got my bullet in my pocket,
And a gal named Thelma Lou.
There's Goober an' Emmett
An' Howard an' Otis
An' Floyd the barber too.

Hit 'em, Floyd.

FLOYD: Ooh, ooh, boy needs a haircut, ooh.
Ooh, ooh, boy needs a haircut, ooh.

NARRATOR: That's a tour through the times.
It's a quick ... for rhymes.
We hope you enjoyed your stay.
Anything you didn't see,
Get yourself a TV.
It's on cable twice a day.

Hit it, Mayberry.

ANDY: Well, would you looky there! Aint Bee, I have never seen such a good-lookin' apple cobbler, I tell you whut. Hey Barn, what's say we take Helen and Thelma Lou up to Meyers way...

[There's a bit more dialog, but no more rapping.]