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Thread #135448   Message #3765289
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Jan-16 - 05:05 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ain't It Great to Be Crazy: Vaudeville?
Subject: ADD Version: Ain't It Great To Be Crazy
AIN'T IT GREAT TO BE CRAZY?


CHORUS
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Silly and foolish all day long,
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!


Eli, Eli, he sells socks,
A dollar a pair, a nickel a box,
The longer you wear them, the shorter they get,
You put 'em in the water and they don't get wet.

Johnny, Johnny went out west,
Where he thought the food was best.
Now they lay him down to rest,
With a concrete meatball on his chest.

Horse and the flea and the three blind mice,
Were out in the barnyard, shooting dice,
Horse slipped, fell on the flea,
"Oops!" said the flea, "There's a horse on me!"

Source: Cub Scout Songbook, copyright 1969 by the Boy Scouts of America, 1996 printing. Page 19