My Roof's Got a Hole in It

Subject: My Roof's Got a Hole in It
From:
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 05:46 PM

Looking for the lyrics and group that sang this song. Probably in the late 50's early 60's.

Subject: RE: My Roof's Got a Hole in It
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:22 PM

I've just a search and not managed to come up with the lyrics but the song is "Crooked Little Man" and the group was the Serendipity Singers and it looks like it came out in 1964 and that it was written by Ersel Hickey and Ed Miller.

Got the the tune stuck in my brain now - I hate it when that happens.

Jon

Subject: RE: My Roof's Got a Hole in It
From: Fountainfox
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:31 PM

I think I remember the chorus, but I don't have it and know who sang it:

CHORUS: Oh, no, oh, no don't let the rain come down//Oh, no, oh, no don't let the rain come down//Oh, no, oh, no don't let the rain come down// My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown// My roof's got a hole in it and I might drown.

I think one verse -- at any rate -- went "something" like this: There was a little manand he had a little house// A(something) little (something)and a (something) little mouse. (Two more unforgettable lines in each verse, of course)

Something like that.

Are you sure you have the title right? I keep thinking it was "Don't let the rain come down" but this could be wrong.

Haven't heard the song since late, late fall or very early winter of 1963, which is when it achieved a brief popularity. I am sure of that.

Subject: RE: My Roof's Got a Hole in It
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 06:34 PM

I don't like being beated so had another search. Here you go http://members.aol.com/deafdude2/lyrics/dont-let-rain-down.txt

Jon

Subject: RE: My Roof's Got a Hole in It
From: GUEST,Sven
Date: 17 Mar 00 - 11:00 AM

There was a crooked man....something, something, something... and he had a crooked cat and he had a crooked mouse and they all lived together in a crooked little house.

Oh, no, don't let the rain come down... (click)