Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup

Subject: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: bobad
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:11 PM

I received a request from the daughter of friends who is looking for a song she claims to have heard at my house some time ago. All she can remember is that it was a male vocalist singing about a soup full of really gross things his mother made or maybe grandmother. I can't, for the life of me remember anything like that in my collection but if any of you come up with some suggestions I will know if I have it or not.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Melissa
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:17 PM

Mama's Soup Surprise?

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: ClaireBear
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 11:54 PM

(Who Threw the Overalls in) Mrs Murphy's Chowder?

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 12:25 AM

Sounds like it might be Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips by Bruce Springsteen.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: open mike
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 01:08 AM

hmm--all the songs about soup i can think of are yummy songs...
wonderful soup stone, smells like soup at our house,

here is stone soup
http://www.songsforteaching.com/stephanieburton/stonesoup.htm

here's one (BUT I THINK IT IS HIP-HOP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Noodle_Soup_%28song%29

these guys are in a pickle...i mean in the soup pot..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxj4SIVqL24

here is a whole collection of soup songs..maybe "yours" is here:
http://www.soupsong.com/imusic.html

are you sure it wasn't this one?
" granny's in the cellar,
lordy, lordy, can't you smell her, baking biscuits
on her darned old dirty stove....etc."

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: bobad
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:55 AM

Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips sounds like a good candidate, I'll put the suggestion to her. I don't recall owning it - not a big Springsteen fan though I do like some of his stuff - but I may have had it on a cassette tape compilation of children's songs. I got rid of my cassettes long ago in a de-stuff-ication moment.
Thanks for all your suggestions.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:17 AM

"Mama's Soup Surprise" and "Chicken Lips..." are the same song. Bruce Springsteen sings it on a compilation called "For Our Children," a CD in the late 80s or early 90s that was a fundraiser for a children's AIDS charity. Another gem on the CD is Bob Dylan singing "This Old Man" (before he was an old man himself).

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: bobad
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 11:33 AM

Right on Cool Beans, I did have "For Our Children" on cassette, I remember now - that's got to be it.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 02:09 PM

It isn't the one you are looking for, but 'Broken-Hearted Lover's Stew' by Benny Hill is funny in a bitter way.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 02:15 PM

While we're on the subject, someone should mention Alan Sherman's soul- (and gut-) stirring "Strangers in My Soup."

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:00 AM

There was also a Scout 'Yell'

Soup, soup, soup, soup,
Soup, soup, soup, soup,
Vegetable soup, vegetable soup
Bangers and mash, bangers and mash
Bangers and mash, bangers and mash
Ice cream!

It takes very little imagination to build this up, using suitable pacing & the rhythm of the words themselves to make this into a good impression of a steam engine starting up, moving off, accellerating & finally blowing its whistle.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM

Who for such dainties would not stoop?

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 08:07 PM

Nigel -

Great Chant - campfire or rainy-day mess-hall.

The steam engine is easily visualized.

If it is NOT already there ... post it as a proposed addition to the DT. In a separat thread all its own.

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 01:52 AM

I misread the title and immediately thought of "Grandma's Lye Soap."

By the time I got the thread open I had decided that wasn't a possibility, but reading the actual request it's just remotely possible that a vague request from a kid might have been inspired by that one.

Or if the kid just wants gross and disgusting maybe it would be an adequate substitute.

(Depending, of course on the kid, and on how much "gross and disgusting" you want yours exposed to.)

John

Subject: RE: Help Identify Song About Mrs Murphy chowder
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 07:17 PM

something like: Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder..

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: Stevebury
Date: 16 Mar 15 - 01:45 PM

How about "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder"? (Not "Overalls.") There's a version (words and tune) on DT. Not about a mother or grandmother specifically, but ingredients include plenty of "really gross things."

Subject: RE: Help Needed Identify A Song About Soup
From: GUEST,#
Date: 16 Mar 15 - 01:47 PM

Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts . . .