Lyr Req: put down that straw

Subject: put down that straw
From: Rincon Roy
Date: 19 Nov 00 - 08:41 PM

There's a nineteenth century tune called, "Put Down That Straw" that plays out so lyrically that it must have had a lyric to go with. Nothing turned up in the Digitrad, so over to you folks!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: put down that straw
From: Quincy
Date: 20 Nov 00 - 06:20 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: put away that straw
From: Rincon Roy
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 07:35 AM

It's put away that straw, not put down that straw. Still don't know lyric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: put down that straw
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 03:22 PM

A probably unrelated reference, but a good line was "put down that straw, you could blow your brains out" aimed at someone lacking sense!
GtD

Subject: Lyr Add: PUT AWAY THAT STRAW (C P Dockstader)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Jul 02 - 11:58 PM

Transcribed from the sheet music at the Library of Congress site:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1881.01303 (The LOC also has band arrangements for this tune.)

PUT AWAY THAT STRAW (LAUGHING SONG.)
Words and music by Chas. P. Dockstader, 1881.

I used to know a little colored gal. You ought to hear her laugh.
When she would smile, you could hear her a mile. Her mouth 'most split in half.
To hear her laugh the folks would come for miles and miles about.
I'd tickle her chin with a piece of straw and oh how she would shout.

CHORUS: Stop that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Quit that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Oh! Pshaw! I wish you'd put away that straw! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Stop that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Quit that tickling! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ain't you going to stop that tickling of my jaw?

I took her to a circus once to see what she would do.
She began to laugh when the show commenced and she never did get through.
She laughed so loud, so long, so strong, on her mouth there lit a fly.
She lost her breath, fly tickled her to death, and she laughed until she died.