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Lyr Req: Eddie Something or Other Related threads: Lyr Req: This is a long shot (Eddie...Brown) (18) (origins) Lyr Add: Wacky Brown (11) Lyr Req: Eddie Catchy Gitchee Goomee... (8) |
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Subject: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other Wacky Brown From: Peter Timmerman Date: 01 Jun 97 - 04:02 PM While rambling through memory land with "Greasy Grimy Gobs" etc., I was reminded of a camp song about Eddie Something or Other who fell into a well, and whose name was so long that by the time rescue came he had drowned. It was something like "Eddie TusacatakamadosaeradosanokaSamacama Wacky Brown, fell into the well, fell into the well, fell into the deep dark well. someone sees him, runs to tell someone else, and so on. Does anyone have the full lyrics? yours, Peter Click for related thread |
Subject: Lyr Add: EDDY KOOTCHIE KATCHIE KANA From: RS Date: 01 Jun 97 - 06:23 PM This is from the three-binder song book I typed for myself more than twenty years ago ... if only there had been word processors then! I still marvel at the Internet, where somebody from who-knows-where can benefit from my personal bookshelf. Learned this at camp, no idea of the original sources. CHORUS: Eddy Kootchie katchie kana Tosa nary tosa noka Sama kama waky Brown Fell into the well, fell into the well, fell into the deep dark well. Suzy Jones was milking in the barn Saw him fall and ran inside to tell her ma that... Suzy's ma was baking crackling bread Ran outside to tell old Joe that Suzy said that... Well, old Joe, he put his plow aside Grabbed his cane and hobbled into town and cried that... To the well, everybody came, What a shame, it took so long to say his name that ... Eddy Kootchie katchie kana Tosa nary tosa noka Sama kama waky Brown WHO? Eddy Kootchie katchie kana Tosa nary tosa noka Sama kama waky Brown DROWNED! |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Peter Timmerman Date: 02 Jun 97 - 09:56 AM Thank you RS (an abbreviated long name?) you have made my day. Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: sophia1 Date: 24 Sep 97 - 12:39 AM Now that I have the lyrics, which I have been looking for, for 3 years, would anyone know what 60's group it was who sang it. I would be forever gratful. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Shula Date: 24 Sep 97 - 01:00 AM Sorry, Sophial, don't know the group, just want to ask if this song owes anything to the childrens' story, Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-(no-sa-rembo-chari-bari-ruchi-pip-peri-pembo)? Or, perhaps, is it the other way round? In this version, the boy with the long name falls down a well and his rescue is complicated by the difficulty of relaying his predicament using the entire name. When his much-less-valued, and hence, short-named, younger brother falls in the same well, he is quickly saved, leaving the family, and, by extension, all of China (!) to elect conveniently short names ever after. Anybody else see the similarity? Shula |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Sep 97 - 01:24 AM Well, yes, Sophia, I remember very well what 60's group sang it. It was the staff of Camp Singing Hills, a Girl Scout camp in southeastern Wisconsin. I know that for a fact, because my sister was a member of that camp staff and well-nigh drove me crazy, singing that song over and over again. Are you implying that somebody actually RECORDED the song? Oh, woe is me! -Joe Offer- ...I also have almost the same lyrics in a songbook from Many Points Scout Reservation, B.S.A.; but no Boy Scout unit I've been associated with would stoop to singing such a song. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Sheye Date: 24 Sep 97 - 10:28 AM Now that we've put this song back in your head to be heard over and over and over... (you're welcome.) |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Peter T. Date: 24 Sep 97 - 01:32 PM I've been away (as has this thread) but glad to see it still alive. What are the lyrics to Rikki-Tikki-Tembo (anything like Kipling?). They certainly sound like scions of the same ur-tree. Yours, Peter |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: sophia1 Date: 24 Sep 97 - 07:16 PM Well, Joe, as sad as it appears, some group really did record this tune. The group, I believe was some one like "The Brothers Four," or "Kingston Trio" or something like that, if anyone knows who the group might have been I'd sure like to know, aside from that I can't thank enough, all of you who posted lyrics, have my battle has been won. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Allan Samuels Date: 29 Sep 97 - 11:07 PM Sophia, It WAS indeed the Brother's Four. The album was "The Brothers Four" on Columbia. It features their hit "Greenfields". The Number was CS 8197. They were one of my favorite groups. Allan |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Shula Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:14 AM Dear Peter T., Fear ye're in f'r 'nother query hangover, Rabbit. Rikki-Tikki-Tembo is a children' story as indicated, not a song. S'far'z Ah know, t'ain't bin set t' music yit, tho' it do hev a quat nahss rythm to't. Don't hev nuthin' t' do wi' thet fine ol' fleet-foot mongoose, Riki-Tiki-Tavi, less'n t' lady wat rote it dun heer'd thet tale as a chile 'n' plum f'got Now look't y've a'gone 'n' done! Y've got me wonderin' if Kiplin's plucky little feller'z ever been properly celee-bra-ded in song, er if'n Ah could make a song 'bout him er mebbe 'bout them two Chinee boyz down thet thar well. Hmmm... Y'd a thunk they Mammy'd be a'watchin' a mite closer efter she done near los' one, w'untcha? Sorry Ah cain't be more hep to ya, son. Ree-gawrds, Shula |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Ralph Butts Date: 30 Sep 97 - 07:57 AM Allan....That Brothers Four album has a number of songs recently discussed here, most recently "Zulu Warrior". The whole list:
The Zulu Warrior They were part of the folk revival and seemed to cover the waterfront with this one....Tiger |
Subject: ADD: Tikki Tikki Tembo (story) From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Feb 01 - 04:43 AM Hey, thanks to Google, I found the story that Shula talked about. I wonder how she's doing - haven't heard from her since March, 1999. The story, with illustrations, is here (click). -Joe Offer- Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, it was the custom of all fathers and mothers in China to give their first and honored sons great long names. But second sons were given hardly any name at all. Click here for another version of the story. Click here for a discussion of whether the story is correct or appropriate. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: LR Mole Date: 06 Feb 01 - 09:34 AM Donovan did a "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", on "Barabajagal" I think, which (RTT) he unaccountably pronounced "Rikkitikkitivvi". Seemed to have some political overtones I couldn't understand. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Peter T. Date: 06 Feb 01 - 10:05 AM A blast from the past. I too wonder what became of Shula, who graced us with her anarchic ways. She was quite unwell for long periods -- I hope she is o.k. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: MMario Date: 06 Feb 01 - 10:24 AM Actually I remember Rikki-tikki-tembo being sung when I was young. Probably late 50's early 60's |
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Eddie Something or Other From: Trapper Date: 06 Feb 01 - 10:26 AM Joe- First of all, I resemble that remark about no Boy Scout unit ever singing Eddie...Brown! As a proud former staffer of Many Point Scout Camp, I sang and knew this song well! Secondly - here is yet another version of the "long name" story.... Niki Niki Amo Mucho Amo Niki Niki Amo Para Para Fu and Ting-A-Ling Later! - Al PS - The entire Many Point Scout Camp Sing-Along Songbook is online here, with a great debt of gratitude to Mudcat! |
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