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Thread #60190   Message #964610
Posted By: GUEST,Q
09-Jun-03 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: Oyster songs
Subject: RE: Folklore: Oyster songs
Found the "Oyster Song," by Connie Mason, Carteret County, North Carolina. Didn't see in in this thread or 55798, which has the wonderful Cole Porter "Tale of the Oyster."

Lyr. Add: Oyster Song

Chorus
Well, tonight I ate an oyster,
An oyster in a stew;
A stew of mud and butter;
Which he was floating through!

1. I ate his heart, his liver;
His gill and his fluid sac;
His teeth and his capillaries;
The tube along his back!

2. I ate his pores and his fleshy foot;
Intestines large and small;
The other glands and tissues;
I quite devoured all!

3. I ate his brains and ganglia;
His nervous system central;
His stomach and its contents;
His muscles to the ventral!

4. Dear host, the meal was perfect!
A real delight to sup.
Please show me to the bathroom
My oyster's coming....up!

People/Events in Morehead City: Oyster Song
If that doesn't work: http://www.clis.com/ccs/lenc/students/Cart...oreheadCityClips/people_eventsMHCMason.htm.

Thread 55798: Oyster songs

A must read for campaigners for Oyster Rights! Don Marquis, "Revolt of the Oyster," 1922, Doubleday Page Co., pp. 1-17 (and other stories), 229 pp.

"Oystershell Road": Have seen many an oyster shell road or driveway in the Gulf Coast area, but not yet seen one in Washington (haven't been on coastal byways there for some years). Now that Washington is a major producer, they may have appeared.

Japanese-Canadian fishermen in British Columbia also lost their boats and were interned during WW2, just as they were in the States..