Goofy Songs

Subject: ADD: Horse Named Bill (alternate version)
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 10:05 PM

A great goofy song is "A Horse Named Bill," sung to the first half of the verse of "Dixie," the part with the words.
"I wish I was in the land of cotton, .
Old times there are not forgotten,.
Look away, look away, look away Dixieland.
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It's in the database, but I learned it with slightly different words and a couple of additional verses.

A HORSE NAMED BILL

I got a horse and his name is Bill
And when he runs he can't stand still;
He ran away...one day...and also I ran with him.

He ran so fast that he couild not stop.
He ran 'til he came to a barber shop
And fell exhaustionized...with his eye teeth...in the barber's left shoulder.

(then the verses missing from the database)
I got a gal and her name is Daisy;
When she sings the cat goes crazy
With Saint Vituses...and deliriums...and all kinds of cat...uhleptics.

One day she sang a song about
A man who turned himself inside-out
And fell...into the river...because he was so sleepy.

(back to slightly different verses from those in the DB)
I'm goin' out in the woods next year,
I'll shoot for beer and not for deer;
I am...I was..I'll be a great sharpshootress.

At shooting birds I am a beaut;
There is no bird I cannot shoot
In the eyes...in the ears...in the teeth or in the finners.(sic)

In Frisco Bay there lives a whale
And he eats pork chops by the bale,
By the hog's head...by the schooner...and sometimes by the pillbox.

His name is Georgia, he's a peach
But don't leave food within his reach,
Or babies...or nursemaids...or chocolate ice cream sundaes.

He loves to laugh and when he smiles
You see teeth for miles and miles (and miles and miles and miles...)
And tonsils...and spareribs...and things too fierce to mention.

He's lots of fun and when he plays
He rolls his eyes for days and days
And vibrates...and yodels...and breaks the ten commandments.

Oh what can you do in a case like that
Oh what can you do but jump on your hat
Or on an eggshell...or your toothbrush...or on anything else that's helpless

Carl Sandburg included it in his American Songbag.

--seed

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 09:50 PM

Good grief ... I used to sing that in the fifties. We must be VERY old! Bob

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Mudlark
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 09:10 PM

I don't remember all the verses to this but it's got a very zippy tune...
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Oh there was a little Drummer and he loved a one-eyed Cook.
He loved her oh he loved her tho she had a cock-eyed look.
With her one eye on the pot and the tother up a chimney.
With a bow-wow-wow.
Fa la la la la la dee dee.
Bow wow wow.
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...and ends up .
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When they went to church to say I do the Drummer got a knock!.
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For her one eye killed the parson....and the other stopped the clock!!.
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With a bow wow wow, etc. etc.

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 08:57 PM

GUEST, I presume you're not familiar with this website. The song your looking for is probably the Old Maid and the Burglar. It's in the Digital Tradition database which contains the words to some 8,000+ songs, and MIDI tunes for a lot of them. You can get to the database from the blue box at the top of the forum page, or click here. I hope this is the one you're looking for.

Also, you might want to check the Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide at the top of the "Thread Name" list. Lots of good information there on what's available on this website. Good hunting.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 07:21 PM

Maggie Savage used to sing that one! Great song. Bob

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Midchuck
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:32 PM

Is that the one that ends: "He took one look at her big glass eye, and said, 'For pity's sake, shoot!'"?

Peter.

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:22 PM

GASTON COUNTY LIBRARY IS GASTONIA N C TOLD ME TO CONTACT YOU I AM LOOKING TO FIND THE LYRICS OF A FOLK SONG THE OLD MAID AND THE BUGLAR CAN YOU HELP? [e-mail]

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Lyrics sent by e-mail - Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:41 PM

Good Grief Don! We both learned THAT SONG from Sandy's very forst record ... that's been a couple of weeks ago! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:26 PM

The black cat piddled in the white cat's eye
And the white cat said "Gor blimey!"
And the black cat said, "You silly sod!
You shouldn't stand behind me!"

Then, of course, there's The Geoduck (Goo-eyduck) Song.

More to come as they occur to me--

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Goofy Songs
From: JenEllen
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:24 PM

Thanks Bob.
Actually, I'm looking for info on a goofy song...maybe someone knows it?? It is about a Scottish Granny (Frasier?) Flittin' to Aberdeen? It goes through this horrendous list of all the things she has in her cart. Dearly love the song, and need to fill a few holes in my memory.
Thanks,
Jen

Subject: Goofy Songs
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:11 PM

Yes, I also would like to get back to the wonderful world of FOLK MUSIC! "Goofy Songs" We all know a few, I know some, let's get some songs posted from the wonderful world of silly, ridiculous, funny, outragous ... whatever. CHEERS, Bob