Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Doug Whelan
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 06:56 PM

I remember this one this way:

I was stirrin' up a stirrup cup in a stolen stirling stein
When I chanced upon a ladle who was once my Valentine.
(Natural, this was a ladle that I used to spoon with.)
"Oh, whence that wince, oh wench?" quoth I.
She blushed and said, "Oh sir!
My mama isn't stirring since my daddy's been in stir."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 07:09 PM

This got me to checking some books that I still have from my you, 50 or more years ago.

This is how it was published:

I was stirrin' up a stirrup cup
In a stolen sterling stein
When I chanced upon a ladle
Who was once my Valentine.
(Natural, this was a ladle
I used to spoon with.)
"Oh, whence that wince, my wench?" quoth I.
She blushed and said, "Oh sir...
Old daddy isn't stirrin'
Since my momma's been in stir."

Great one!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Doug Whelan
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 08:53 PM

After the elections, this one resounds:

Promulge the prating prim
Of the prudent promisor,
For the premise of the promise
Was the primogenitor
Of the primalaceous program
With the presbyopic door.

From Uncle Pogo So-So Stories
Doug

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Doug Whelan
Date: 30 Nov 12 - 08:59 PM

Someone started the poem:

Once you were two,
Dear birthday friend,
   In spite of purple weather.

But now you are three
And near the end
As we grewsome together.

Here's the rest:

How fourthful thou,
forsooth for you,
For soon you will be more.

But ---'fore
one can be three be two
Before be five be four.

Doug

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Libby'smom
Date: 02 Jan 14 - 08:56 PM

Songs of the Pogo was released on cd...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Lalor
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 06:01 PM

I think it was King Winkelhof...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 04:43 PM

Songs of the Pogo appeared as a book, LP, and CD.
A quick scan shows many copies available at a wide range of prices.
Best wishes, Thomas.

SONGS OF THE POGO
by Walt Kelly with Norman Monath

Simon & Schuster ASCAP 150               LP 1956 with songbook
AA Records (Affiliated Publishers, div.Pocket Boos) AR-2    LP 1956
REACTION Recordings (Urbana, IL) CD-002   CD 2003 booklet (+6 tracks

SONGS OF THE POGO
lyrics by WALT KELLY
music by NORMAN MONATH and WALT KELLY
lyrics for EVIDENCE by Lewis Carroll
Orchestra and chorus under the direction of JIMMY CARROLL

A1 Go Go Pogo                  v Walt Kelly
A2 Whence That Wince?          v Mike Stewart, Fia Karin and Chorus
A3 Northern Lights             v Fia Karin
A4 Slopposition                v Bob Miller
A5 A Song Not For Now          v Fia Karin and chorus
A6 Twirl, Twirl                v chorus
A7 Parsnoops                   v chorus
A8 The Keen and the Quing      v Fia Karin and chorus
A9 Man's Best Friend          v Chorus, with recitative by Walt Kelly

B1 Don't Sugar Me             v Fia Karin
B2 Whither The Starling       v Mike Stewart and chorus
B3 Willow The Wasp             v Fia Karin
B4 Truly True                  v chorus
B5 Many Harry Returns          v Fia Karin and chorus
B6 Potlucky                   v chorus
B7 The Hazy Yon                v chorus
B8 Evidence (Lewis Carroll)    v Mike Stewart
B9 Lines upon a Tranquil Brow v Walt Kelly

19. No
20. Can't   
21. Tomorrow (Rehearsal)   
22. No ( Rehearsal)
23. Walt Singing
24. A Word To The Fore



SONGS OF THE POGO
Simon and Schuster NY, hb 1956, 152pp
Simon and Schuster NY, pb 1968.

Go Go Pogo
A Song Not For Now
Don't Sugar Me
Whither The Starling
Whence That Wince?
The Keen and the Quing
Parsnoops
Truly True
How Low Is The Lowing Herd
Slopposition
Many Harry Returns
Evidence
Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow
Mistress Plurry
Man's Best Friend
The Prudent Promisor
Song of the Shuttle or Smile, Wavering Wings
Filibeg Fair
Northern Lights
Lhude Sing Cuccu
One Small Score for Two Brown Eyes or Only The Lone
Twilr, Twirl
Mistily Meandering
This Is The Hunt
Wry Song
Potlucky
Willow The Wasp
Prettily Preen
The Hazy Yon
Deck Us All with Boston Charlie
index of first lines

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,KJ Starzinger
Date: 23 Jul 14 - 09:30 PM

Good King Sauerkraut looked out on his feets uneven
and the snew lay round about..

Snew? what's snew?

I dunno, whats snew with you?

KJ CHS 1948

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jul 15 - 02:09 AM

I came here looking for Fearless Fred the Footpad Dread. Is he a character? Part of a poem?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Jim Farwell
Date: 10 Dec 15 - 03:51 AM

[ this is in response to a post by Jeff Danziger, back in Oct '07 ]

"There's a star in the wind and the wind winds high...."

I agree. Porky's gentle song is lovely and poignant. Virtually all of Kelly's writings had at least a hint of humor or satire, but not that perfect little poem. It is soft and simple, as fragile as an April wildflower, and there is only wistful longing. I had not realized that it was written for a daughter who had died very young.

God, I miss Walt Kelly.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: dick.hamlet
Date: 10 Dec 15 - 01:10 PM

An update on the Fantagraphics reprint project. They have released
(I think) three of the projected 12 volumes that will include all
the published strips. I have the first two, and they sell in a
boxed set that would be a great present for any Pogophile. The
reproduction is beautiful.

Some of Kelly's best stuff appeared only in book form (e.g., Stepmother
Goose), and in the comic books, but some of these are very hard to get
and expensive.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Dec 15 - 01:45 PM

I tried to learn "Parsnoops," which is a real jawbreaker. I didn't get very far. Ended up with a few soggy fragments in my memory:

Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers
While the parsley was parceling the peas....

The turnips were passing the time of the day
In the night of the moon on the porch
.....
That the scallions were screeched in the scorch.

Or something like that.


And Walt Kelly himself booming his way through "Go Go Pogo" which sounds like a gazette/map/atlas resume of placenames.

something-something Wheela-Barrow SOMEPLACE IN MEXICO!
Delaware, Ohio and you don't need the text to go
Wheeling, West Virginia
With everything that's in ya
Down the line you'll see the shine
From Oregon to Carolina

Eeny meeny miny Kokomo go Pogo....gasp.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: clueless don
Date: 11 Dec 15 - 08:13 AM

How many were going to Altoona?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Dec 15 - 09:26 AM

Jes' one..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Laura Beraha
Date: 18 Dec 16 - 06:35 PM

I remember seeing one strip where one character sings "Good King Sauerkraut...." and the other tells him it's "King Wenceslaus", whereupon the first puts his hat over his heart and says: "I didn't know that Sauerkraut had passed on." CAN'T FIND THE STRIP ANYWHERE!! Anyone?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 18 Dec 16 - 08:23 PM

Clearly, an overdose of Sauerkraut would have gassed on . . . but then he'd be French.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,DavePhilips
Date: 06 Jan 17 - 12:14 PM

I remember an alternate couplet:

"Beware the snoo lay round about
All kerchoo achievin'"

which occasioned this exchange:
"What's snoo?"

"Dunno. What's snoo with you?"