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Thread #34913   Message #474247
Posted By: CRANKY YANKEE
01-Jun-01 - 02:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sewer songs
Subject: Lyr Add: THE SONG OF THE SEWER
Here's another one. I do it with a "Brooklyn, New York" accent. It would be done just as well with a london (Soho accent.

THE SONG OF THE SEWER.

I
I woik down da sewer it's a very fine job
And you know dey won't hire any ol' slob
You don't hafta'drive or row a boat
But y' do hafta' know how to float, ooooooooohhhhhhhh.....

(chorus) we sing the song of d' sewer, of d' sewer we sing dis song
Tuh-gedduh we stands, wid shovels in hands
Just to keep t'ings rollin' along.

II
Oooohhh!!
I woik down a manhole wid a guy named "Bruce"
He's d' one that's in charge o' all the refuse
Hed let's me go foist while he holds d' lid
(spoken)I'm tellin' yuh folks, 'dat's a democratic kid.

(repeat chorus)

III
Me fodder he woiked in a sewer downtown,
He started at the top and woiked his way down
'D'at's how I got started in dis here industry,(spoken)I just kind'a fell into it, lucky me,

(repeat chorus)

The melody is the same as the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme. Flat and Scruggs recorded it for the American "Columbia" Co.

The verses are sung more or less rythmless, and the chorus is done in 4/4 (march) time