My Dad was a great " stride" piano player (Rqgtime-barrelhouse) and he also played a banjo-mandolin that he called his "DROOBLE" (because it went "drooble - drooble") We didn't have a piano but some of my aunts and uncles did. Whenever we visited one, He' liven things up considerably. On Sunday afternoon Dad, his "drooble", my sister and I would sit around and sing songs. When I started playing guitar, it got even better., Dad taught us about harmony so the three of us would sing 3 part harmony. Some of the songs we sang were really funny, like," Dum dum deedle deedle dum dum dum. One verse and chorusfollows,

I I went one night my girl to see,
at the door, her mother greeted me
She's upstairs taking a bath, said she
Dum. dum, deedle, eedle, dum, dum,dum
Then she said, "Oh, daughter fair,"
slip on something and come down stair
She slipped on the top stair and came down bare
dum, dum, deedle, eedle, dum, dum, dum.

(Heck I might as well write the whole song)

II
Then to a funeral we did go,
We followed the hearse with our heads bowed low
We marched around in the ice and snow
Dum, dum, deedle,eedle, dum,dum, dum
Then an awful smell made me raise my head
I found we weren't following the dead,
We were following the garbage wagon insted
Dum, dum, deedle,eedle, dum dum dum.

And then there was ,"Well it looks like rain", AKA "Giddyap I'm goin' home"

I
Well I never was madder had a job on a ladder
carryin' mortar up and down outside.
Took a step I hadn't ought'er fell into a mess of mortar
, well I never was so "mortar- fied"

(refrain) Well, it looks like rain, giddyap, I'm goin' home
" " " " " " " " "

II
Billy bloke, he had a bill goat,
and the billy goat's name was "nell"
Well a mowin' machine took 'is nose off clean,
how did the billy goat smell
(spoken ) TERRIBLE!!
(repeat refrain)

III
Billy Kramer says he's a lion tamer,
over in the animal school.
But Charlie Griever says he's no such neither>BR>, He's a God Damned LION FOOL, (spoken) YESSIR.

(REPEAT REFRAIN)