Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: Art Thieme
Date: 04 Aug 09 - 08:14 PM

In the mid 1960s the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago had an insignia on it's stationary that looked like a very nice stylized depiction of what most thought was the sun with light rays coming off from the disk. One day I mentioned to Win Stracke something about "the sun on the school's logo." I was instantly informed that it wasn't the sun. It was the pick wheel from a manure spreader!

Folks, what better icon than that is there for a school pushing folklore and songs??

Sing 'em loud, and spread 'em around!!

Art

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,Elaine
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 10:21 AM

My father in law was alway singing/telling stories as well as limericks. This one was passed down by his father and grandfather who both immigrated to Canada from England in 1908.

The corporation mud cart was full up to the brim.
The corportation navvy fell in and couldn't swim.

They put him on a stretcher. They put him on a bed.
They rubbed his belly with a half brick and this is what he said.

High ho, high ho my Father got a job. Working in a shell shop for 4 and 20 bob.

Last Saturday night, he bought himself a pair of clogs. Killed a rat, squashed a cat and paralyzed two dogs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,Elaine
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 10:24 AM

Sorry that should have been....

The corporation navvy fell in and couldn't swim.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Jun 11 - 05:47 PM

I feel constrained to point out that 'Fling It Here' is one of Adge Cutler's offerings .

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,Bluegrassman
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 09:04 PM

Here is a great version of this song done by Nev Henderson at The Station at Loftus, North Yorks.

http://www.youtube.com/user/IanTheSwin2#p/u/12/0UT8ttxJ4Ro

I tried to make it a blue clicky but it failed, you will have to cut and paste it somewhere.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: open mike
Date: 03 Nov 11 - 09:22 PM

Do any of you know any songs giving praise to the Classic god of manure Sterquilinus ("Manure"), god of fertilizer. Also known as Stercutus, Sterculius, Straculius, Struculius?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterquilinus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Nov 11 - 06:32 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=0UT8ttxJ4Ro

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,cartimandua
Date: 30 Jan 12 - 01:51 PM

Very pleased to find this! As a child in the early sixties I went to a show at Colne Municipal Hall where this song was sung. Just a few tantalising snatches stayed with me:

"The corporation muck cart was full up to the brim
The driver he fell backwards and he found he couldn't swim
(De dee de dee de dee de dee de dee de dee)
So they rubbed his back with half a brick and this is what he said...."

Good to be able to flesh it out a bit!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 08:36 PM

the corporation muck cart, was full up to the brim.
the corporation driver, fell in and could'nt swim.
they took him home in a wheelbarrow,
and laid him on his bed, and rubbed his belly with a big flat brick,
and this is what he said "oh bring me back my muck cart
                         oh bring me back my light.
                         oh bring me back my shovel,
                         to shovel up the s..t

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,Beertruk
Date: 30 Nov 15 - 05:23 PM

I remember years ago my Old Man singing this version of the Corporation Muck Cart to the tune of Ghost Riders :

The Municipal Dunny Cart was filled up to the brim,
The council man he tripped and then he fell in,
His head went down and his feet went up,
And he sank like a stone,
And the maggots were singing,
'Ther's no place like home',
Yippee yi yaaaay,
Yippee yi ohhhhh,
And the maggots were singing,
'Ther's no place like home'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jun 18 - 03:31 PM

The municipal dunny cart was filled up to the brim.
The municipal dunny man fell in but couldn't swim.
He drifted on a lump of shit and there he cried in vain:
'Oh,someone get me out of here, or I'll go down the drain!'
Albany, WA, early 1960's.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 09:41 PM

The municipal dunny cart was full up to the brim.
The municipal dunny man fell in, he could not swim.
His head went down, his feet went up,
And he sank down like a stone,
He heard the maggots singing
There is no place like home.
Shittee yi yaaaay,
Shittee yi ohhhhh,
There is no place like home.

They pulled him out, but all too late,
The maggots had done their work.
The stink from that shit drenched corpse
made all the people perk.
They laid him on the roadside
for everyone to see
And on him the hung a sign,
Don't die a death like me.
Shittee yi yaaaay,
Shittee yi ohhhhh,
Don't die a death like me.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: GUEST,Max Vale
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 09:52 PM

I should have mentioned that the last above dates from the early 1950s
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Liquefied Manure Truck
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 09:49 AM

"A man fell into a septic tank.
Man, that tank it really stank.
He really couldn't swim inside that tank...
But he went through the movements before he sank."

From Art Thieme a number of years ago. To "Turkey in the Straw"