Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Feb 02 - 10:05 AM

Do not curtail this thread!;~)
Regards,
Ol' Dog Tray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Boris the Spider
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 02:49 PM

Mammy minded Singapore,
'Til one day in Miami
A sailorman from Turkestan
Came knocking at the door...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 03:03 PM

12/23/1959

Good King Sauerkraut looked out
on his feets uneven
while his nose jus' run about
a-sniffin' and a-sneezin'

Revisited on 12/22/1971

Good King Sauerkraut look out!
On your feets so porous...
While the snoo lay round and bout,
Deep with crispness chorus.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 03:23 PM

I see that "Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred" are still with us...*grin*...or, as said "holler for Befuddled; that oughta fit anyone in the family".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: PoohBear
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 04:47 PM

I GO POGO!!!!
I grew up reading Pogo collections my father had - and am lucky enough to have received them as an 'early inheiritance'. I also have the vinyl album 'Songs of the Pogo'. One of the reasons I love Pogo is that he has so many levels. I don't know enough of the politics from the time the strip was running to appreciate ALL of the humour - but I know enough!
SKXTYM!!
PB
ps - according to igopogo.com there is a gathering of swamp critters every year to discuss, remember and enjoy POGO and the other dezidens of the Okefenokee Swamp.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From:
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 05:32 PM

Other versions of mammy minded Maime continue:

"And that knocker he said honey roll this rocker out some money
Or your daddy shoots a baddy to the floor."

And don't forget the dramatic recitations of Froggy went a Courtin, (Edited by the Chick moralist, who refused to allow beer to be used, and who terrorized the children by including the snake attack at the end - which oddly passed the Chick's censorship standard)Who Killed Cock Robin ( Albert, expecting to read a simple children's story weeping throughout) and the 12 Days of Christmas, with appropriate commentary by the reciting parties ("Not to mention those milkmaids milking hand over fist" [Albert])

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Guest 000000000001
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 09:40 AM

"Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: RangerSteve
Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:39 PM

Fearless Fred, the footpad dread, set fire to his mammies bed.

Was there more to this poem?"

"Yes" but it was interrupted.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Christopher
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 12:11 AM

I think the first two verses of Kelly's riff on the 12 Days of Christmas went, more or less, thus:

Honor Thursday of crispness,
MacFurloff centipede
A. Parsnips, inner pantry.

Honor sickle day of crispness,
MacFurloff centipede
Toot doodle duffs
Anna Parsnips, inner pantry.

I surfed over here looking for more, and appreciate Ken's logging that verse sung by Churchy, which has to be #3.

Christopher

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Christopher
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 12:18 AM

...Make that "MacTruloff," as per Ken's verse, that makes a lot more sense...

-- Christopher

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Old rockin' Dave
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM

Oh, what memories.
"Yes, Santy Claus, there is a Virginia"
The Bats, unsure as to who is which - "If you're wearing my pants, you must be me."

I offer up this memorization (sadly don't recall the title) that was in one of the books:
"The gentle journey jars to stop.
The drifting dream is done.
The long gone goblins loom ahead -
The deadly that we thought were dead -
Stand waiting, every one."

Sort of suits the times..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Barbara
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:53 PM

"We have met the enemy and he is us."


We sure could use Walt Kelly these days. I read him growing up. He drew those strips with a brush. Only other strip I am aware of that was done that way was Calvin and Hobbes.

Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: NH Dave
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 02:30 PM

I did a search for "Walt Kelly" +Pogo on Amazon and came up with 83 hits and one CD. You'll have to sort throgh them to find one that may suit.

I tried sending this once but it didn't "take" hope this one works.

Dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 02:37 PM

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!




Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!

Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!




(NOTE: Diligent researchers, including the esteemed
folk-lorist, Professor Jiggs Potlook, have also unearthed
the following partial verses. We make no guarantee
for their authenticity. For further research, kindly
consult Kelly, Walt; Deck Us All With Boston Charlie,
Simon and Schuster, 1963.)

Duck us all in bowls of barley,
Hinky dinky dink an' Polly Voo!
Chilly Filly's name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, Woof, Woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, Goof, Goof!

Tickle salty boss anchovie
Wash a wash a wall Anna Kangaroo
Ducky allus bows to Polly,
Prolly Wally would but har'ly do!

Dock us all a bowsprit, Solly --
Golly, Solly's cold and so's ol' Lou!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 01:03 AM

I was surprised, when looking at the Disney movie "Dumbo," to see Walt Kelly listed as one of the animators.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: NH Dave
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 03:22 AM

You have to start somewhere, and the Disney Studios had some great animators when Walt was around. Since you have to be a good artist to be a good animator, Kelley served with some of the best, until it came time for him to go off and do his own thing.

Dave

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 08:08 PM

refresh!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: iancarterb
Date: 19 Nov 06 - 10:20 PM

I have always remembered this variant of Good King Sauerkraut- a differnt fourth line:
Good King Saurkraut looked out
On his feets uneven,
And the snoo lay round about
Deeply crisp uneven.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 08:02 AM

But what is the true version?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 11:11 AM

Charlie...it's right there with the 'true' version of Barb'ry Allan and "Rolling Home"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 11:58 AM

Bill D-

Figures!

Charley

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 12:13 PM

Oh, Mamie minded Mama till one day in Singapore,
A sailor man from Turkistan came knockin' at the door.


(to continue)

"Oh, whence that wince, fair maid?" he cried.
She blushed and said, "Oh sir. My mama isn't
stirring since my daddy's been in stir."

in stir = in jail

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 09:19 PM

Heh...well timed revival of this thread. I'm reading a three-book compilation of I GO POGO, THE POGO PARTY and POGO EXTRA which I picked up at Powell's in Portland during a business trip. Don't think I've hit a song yet though (political or otherwise).

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 09:31 PM

GG-

'Tis the season to go for Pogo!

Leeneia-

Thanks for the extra verse to "Oh, Mamie minded Mama." I was thinking there was another one and that one really fills the song out. We have a shelf of ALL the Pogo books back at my mother's farm but I haven't looked at them for years!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 11:08 AM

I remember Bugleboy. We followed Pogo faithfully and named our dog after him.... Beauregard de Mont Mingle Frontinac Bugle Boy the Third. Or, "Bo", as he liked to be called. Does anyone have the words to "Digitalis"? The ode to paying taxes.. The only line I remember was the last one: "I'll junk it, and jaded, go joyfully to jail"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,WGP
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:36 AM

I remember the second line, deliberately truncated by Kelly, as "Then Mamma grabbed a hammer and a bucket full of . . ."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:39 PM

I remember saurkraut as

Good king Saurkraut looked down
On his feet uneven
And the people roundabout
Called them even Steven

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Songster Bob
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:57 PM

By the way, Wiley Catt was NOT Joe McCarthy. His cousin, Simple J. Malarkey, was.

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: bigchuck
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 06:22 PM

Have you ever while pondrin'
The ways of the morn
Thought to save just a bit
Just a drop in the horn

To sup in the morning
Or late afternoon
Or during the evening
While we're shining the moon

Have you ever cried out
While counting the snow
Or watching the tomtit
Warble hello

Break out the cigars
This life is for squirrels
We're off to the drugstore
To whistle at girls

I may perish of nostalgia.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Jeff Danziger
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 09:12 PM

Walt Kelly had a daughter who died at about 6 months, if I have this right. He wrote this poem for his wife. (I have the original lettering.)

For the Mother of Kathryn Barbara

There's a Star in the wind
and the wind winds high,
Blowing alight
thru fog, thru night.
Thru cold, thru cold
and the bitter alone...
There high in the wind
rides a Star, my own.
And the Star is a Word...
of white, of white...
And the Star in the wind
is a a Word.

Porkypine
1953

I think this is the most beautiful thing Kelly ever wrote, and I find it impossible to get through without tears.

Jeff Danziger

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Midchuck
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 10:15 PM

Are you actually Danziger? He who had Pa Tweed and Nick looking for sonny who was lost in the woods, and one said to the other, "Maybe he ain't the only one who's lost." and the other said "Who else is lost?" and the reply was...?

I have never ceased wondering if the Pogo lines turning up in your cartoons (if you're actually you) were plagiarism or homage. (One could wonder the same about us Woodchucks' rendition of "Pride of Petrovar" or "Eileen Orgh," The arrangement being stolen directly from Ian and Sylvia's first album - but we never get called on it because no one else remembers it.)

Peter

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Ferrara
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 11:01 PM

Thanks for posting the poem, Jeff. Porky always had a way with him.... It is beautiful.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 12:32 PM

The season approaches.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 12:49 PM

How pierceful grows the hazy yon!
How myrtle petaled thou!
For spring hath sprung the cyclotron,
How high browse thou, brown cow?
...

and:

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.

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.


and:


Oh, roar a roar for Nora,
Nora Alice in the night.
For she has seen Aurora
Borealis burning bright.

A furore for our Nora!
And applaud Aurora seen!
Where, throughout the summer, has
Our Borealis been?

and

The Keen and the Quing were quirling at quoits
In the meadow behind of the mere.
Tho' mainly the meadow was middled with mow,
An heretical hitherto here.

The Prince and the Princess were plaiting the plates
And prating quite primly the peer.
And that's why the Duchess stuck ducks on the Duke
For no one was over to seer.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 12:52 PM

I was stirrin' up a stirrup cup
With 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 sighed and said, "Oh Sir,
My papa ain't been stirrin'
Since my mama's been in stir."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Dec 08 - 01:18 PM

My banjo and me is completely unstrung
The rungs on the ladder rung three;
Do no rangle the wrongs of Rangoon, dear
For the Gangrene has set off to sea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Matt
Date: 06 Dec 09 - 11:25 PM

I found this page after googling the last line of Digitalis -- Alas, another was hoping to find the entire poem! What I can recall is below, but I'm sure it's not complete. The poem appears in "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie" according to www.igopogo.com book index page.

I'll have to re-read the book when I visit my parents. Alas! I'll only inherit my father's Pogo collection when my eyes are too teary to read.


There's a nominal number of numbers you know
and the more that they number the number I grow

My noggin is nimble though normally numb
My hat is a thimble, my counter a thumb

I fumble and figure and fidget and fret
and fearfully fly from the digital wet

My tax form is formless - I quiver and quail
I'll junk it and jaded go joyful to jail!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 09:22 PM

That's the entire piece in my copy of Deck Us etc. It's called Digitalis.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: beeliner
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 10:20 PM

If I remember correctly, and contrary to an earlier post, the "Songs of the Pogo" LP came first and the sheet music was an afterthought.

The song book may be found used from time to time on eBay or Amazon, but the recordings are now available on CD, VERY recently released, and available for as little as $10, depending on the retailer.

The songs are quite entertaining and Kelly had a vocal range that extended to a really fine Irish tenor.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: JesseW
Date: 09 Dec 09 - 11:21 PM

As a representative of the younger generation, I must pipe up that I love Pogo too! Got the bug (and copies of the books) from my mom, who read them when she was a child -- such skill, and joy and humor!

As for the claims about most of the books being out of print -- there are active efforts afoot to get *all* the strips back in print, and there were reprints as recently as the 90s, from Fantographics. See the Wikipedia entry for details.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 10 - 02:13 PM

(with Albert and the bats singing Bum Bum Bum in the background)
Good King Sauerkraut, look out!
On yo' feets uneven.
While the snoo lay roun' about,
All kerchoo achievin'."

'Kerchoo'?
Gesundheit. Uh, what's 'snoo'?
I dunno. What's new with you?

Hold it. It's King Wenceslas
Hear that? Winklehof is King.
What happened to Sauerkraut?
I dunno, he must of died
Died? I didn't know he was sick.

Wenceslas! Wenceslas was king! And they is too many bums in your song.
We is not bums and we'll just take our singing elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,W1027
Date: 26 Jun 10 - 09:34 PM

How come I remember:
"Oh Mamie minded Mama 'til one day in Singapore
A sailor lad from Trinidad came knocking at her door."
What wonderful memories have come from this thread!
W1027

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Reiver 2
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:26 PM

Wonderful memories indeed!! Pogo is my all-time favorite comic strip. I have 16 different Pogo books, but didn't know about the song books. I see that used copies are available through Amazon and other outlets, so I can start buying more Pogo books! Great thread!! Thanks to all who've contributed.

Reiver 2

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:38 PM

hmmm...*I* have only 8-9 old Pogo books...but I do have "The Jack Acid Society Black Book"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 09:39 PM

There was half a third line to 'Mamie', viz:

'Then Mamie grabbed a hammer and a bucketful of...HEY!'

Also Fiercely Fred (NOT Fearless Fred) never extinguished his Ma but he did go on some travels, viz:

Fiercely Fred, the footpad dread
Went to Wainscoting no sooner than said
Went to Wainscoting, PA did he,
All in the height of the Bumble Bee
'Fall with the flight of the slumber tree,'
cried Fred, the dread of the Seminaree.

I wish I could get these out of my head but they're stuck.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,guest, soraberdav
Date: 10 Dec 10 - 06:28 PM

Another "memory" of Kelly's "Good King Wencelas" lines, excavated from something like 50 years ago...

Good King Wencelas looked out
on his feets uneven
As the snoo lay round about
All kerchoo achieven.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 Dec 10 - 12:48 PM

On rereading this thread, I am surprised not to find mention of the Statue to Beauregard, the Noble Hound.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Whippoorwill
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 04:43 PM

Hmm. Didn't know when I started this thread that it would live forever. Thanks to all of you for the fond memories.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 10:00 PM

for the Pogophile - Fantagraphics has released Vol.1 of the
syndicated Pogo strips May 16 1949 - Dec 31 1950, the Sunday pages
for 1950, and the New York Star strips 1948-1949.

Best wishes, Thomas.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 02:46 PM

I have seen recent (last 10 years?) reissues of the strips Kelly did called "Bumbazine and Albert the Alligator," which featured a human among the animals. Bumbazine was a little black boy (this was the 1940s, so we can call him a "pickaninny") who could talk to the animals. He mainly talked to Albert, and Pogo wasn't much in it. Eventually, Ol' Bumbazine left for greener pastures or high school or got drafted, and the animals kept on, with Pogo moving up to be Abbott to Albert's Costello.

It's better that Bumbazine left. He wasn't as believable as the rest of the cast.

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs
From: PHJim
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 06:59 PM

I've been a long time Pogo fan. For my 50th birthday I received a poster of Pogo with "We Have Found The Enemy..." That hangs proudly in our family room. I also have a Pogo mug that I was given by a friend who knows my passion for Pogo. I taught our Ukulele club "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie" this Christmas.

Pogo Poster

When we were kids we had a pet raccoon named "Rackety Coon Chile" and when I moved to Port Hope, my roommate and I had a pet ground hog named "Grundoon".