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: 19 Nov 06 - 08:08 PM refresh! |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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,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,wschultz@nhpd.org 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Uncle_DaveO Date: 14 Feb 02 - 10:29 AM I've read this thread in bits and pieces, so I'm not real sure, but I don't think anyone has mentioned this one: Row, row, Rover both, Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 11 Feb 02 - 01:38 PM Pogo books are like old baseball cards or rare songbooks....people seldom part with them except by death or big $$$$...they were reprinted, but not recently, as the potential market (i.e., expiring minds) is decreasing. You see them on Ebay, at a few old bookstores..etc....I have about 8 'originals'...including one duplicate which I 'might' be persuaded to part with... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: musicmick Date: 11 Feb 02 - 01:53 AM You guys have shook my neuritis and nostalgia to the very core. I am avid to relive my stirring days of yesteryear. Who, among you, knows where I can replenish my long lost cache of Pogography? Are those great books still in print? If not, can somebody print 'em? Expiring minds want to know. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: GUEST,Fred Date: 10 Feb 02 - 02:22 AM And as folk singers, who can forget Ma Booney Lice Soda Devotion?, as sung by Churchy, proving to Albert that "us armadillos sing." "Ma bonny lice soda devotion! Ma booney life saver D.C.! McBoniface rover commotion Oh, brickbat Mahoney Toomey!" And also, who can forget the Jack Acid Society Black Book? But the pig looking like Kruschev and the dog looking like Castro were in Instant Pogo, with the Deacon and Mole being the Jack Acid Society and with Wiley Cat hunting the pig. Wiley and the Deacon show up as Klanners (oops! I mean as the Kluck Klams) in The Pogo Poop Book. It also includes a series called Late Early Poop on the Jack Acid Society. What a mind the man had! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Whippoorwill Date: 10 Feb 02 - 01:13 AM Well, I've seen it in print and I still don't believe it. I remember the last line of "Boston Charlie" as: "Boola, boola, Saskatoola, Mullagaroo." I thought Pensacoola was a Florida soft drink.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: musicmick Date: 09 Feb 02 - 10:26 PM I am, strangely, warmed by knowing that so many of my fellows remember and revere the gentle genius of Walt Kelly. I have never read another author (with the possible exception of Mark Twain) who, so skillfully, blended philosophy, political satire and word play. He must have been the premier humorist of the 20th century. At the start of each book, Kelly wrote a forward that was, both, funny and inciteful.I never tire of quoting the closing words of one of those forwards, "We have met the enemy and they are us." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 09 Feb 02 - 02:22 PM In about 1962, we had a party, attended my some members of the English Dept, at my college. One of the 'events' was a poetry explication contest, in which everyone was given a copy of the following and asked to write an explication/analysis of it in 15 min or less: I wish I had saved the efforts!
"Evening is dawn;
Title: One Small Score for Two Brown Eyes Porkypine, 1955 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Jim Dixon Date: 09 Feb 02 - 10:07 AM These are, strictly speaking, not songs but poems, from "Pogo's Sunday Punch," by Walt Kelly, 1957. The first poem appears after the table of contents, but before the first Pogo story, suggesting it is meant as a dedication. It is accompanied only by 2 small drawings of puppies.
TO THE EVERYDAY CHILD
Tell me, friend, so
Tell me, tell me
Whisper, whisper
Tell me, tell me,
Tell me only,
You can ponder,
Sing me, pray thee, The following poems appear, not as part of any story, but in two separate sections called "Stuff and Nonsense" and "More Stuff and Nonsense." They are all accompanied by drawings, but I have not described the drawings except in one instance where I think they help clarify the meaning of the poem. I have chosen only a few of the more memorable, or coincidentally relevant, poems. MOON OVER MAMIE
O, Mamie minded Momma
The way he knocked
"Raise Raise the Raisin!
"Oh, please no longer potter SONG OF THE MOON
Now that the star
Choose something controlled.
A platform for space
At a Thursdalite, [The drawings accompanying the above poem show (1) Churchy on roller skates, wearing a Russian-style fur hat and coat, being pulled by a bear; and (2) Churchy, in the same hat and coat, standing in a floating teacup, looking outward and downward at stars, while the bear floats on a tether.] THE PRINCE OF POMPADOODLE
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle
The Prince of Pompadoodle TO PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE
The last photograph and a half of you,
We've suffered,
With the old and the new
But what would we do with the children? THE OLYMPICS
We salute you, oh, games of the ages |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Feb 02 - 12:52 PM Anyone recall the name of the Mao character? He was a short, fat, oriental looking guy who rode a giant dinosaur......He appeared with the Lone (Loan) Arranger, a centaur with LBJ's head and a big Stetson. Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Don Firth Date: 06 Feb 02 - 11:46 AM Aha! I vaguely recall that she wore gym shoes! Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Troll Date: 05 Feb 02 - 11:41 PM The chicken was probably Sis Boombah, a female PE teacher. troll |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: SharonA Date: 05 Feb 02 - 02:25 PM Don Firth: That site ("Cover to Cover") is lots of fun (not to mention its link to the "I Go Pogo" site). Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Don Firth Date: 05 Feb 02 - 01:34 PM Click here and scroll down. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Don Firth Date: 05 Feb 02 - 12:58 PM Right, Wiley Cat was modeled after Sen. Joe McCarthy, believe it or not! Kelly did get his licks in from time to time. The Providence, Rhode Island newspaper that carried Pogo Possum recognized the squinty eyes, the five o'clock shadow, and ominous pronouncements and refused to run the strip whenever Wiley Cat appeared. Kelly responded by firing a little in-joke in their direction. A chicken (who's name I can't recall) appeared. Wiley Cat sez, "She's a Red! Worse, she's a Rhode Island Red! She mustn't see me here!!" For the next couple of weeks he was very much present in the strip, but he wore a bag over his head! The paper still wouldn't publish it. I Go Pogo!! Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Naemanson Date: 05 Feb 02 - 12:27 PM Bazfaz on them as made POGo go away. Rowrbazzle! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: SharonA Date: 05 Feb 02 - 11:02 AM Most of Kelly's satire and plays-on-words went over my head as a kid looking at the comic strip, but I never failed to read it just because of the wonderful artwork. I vaguely remember the bats and the groundchuck, but of course I remember Pogo, Albert and my favorite, Churchy. Like Naemenson, I still check the calendar to see which day of the week Friday the Thirteenth falls on each month! I do have a clear memory of those strips wherein all the animals hid in their homes and refused to come out when Friday the Thirteenth fell on a Friday. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Feb 02 - 10:40 AM If I'm remembering the right character, Wiley Cat was a caricature of Joe McCarthy, of evil memory. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: musicmick Date: 05 Feb 02 - 02:53 AM Has there ever been a comic strip, or any other publication, that so artfully combined the literate, the classicly allusive, the gentility and the downright hilarity of Pogo? Walt Kelly wrote that he never considered himself a satirist. He felt that the limitations imposed by the vastness of his readership, forbade such subtlty. He compared himself, unfavorably, to Jonathan Swift. Well, I've read Gulliver's Travels and, maybe it's just me, but I didn't think the Liliputians were as funny and clever as those three bats, Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred, upon being told that something (I disremember what) was, both, typical and new, said, individually and in sequence, "Typical?", "New?", "And Tyler, too?" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Haruo Date: 05 Feb 02 - 01:07 AM I think the three listed by Catspaw49 were the ones that appeared in Fremont Baptist's Serenity Service Xmas Song Supplement or whatever it was called. They all look like I've sung 'em a million times in church. Liland |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: RangerSteve Date: 04 Feb 02 - 08:07 PM I just remembered Churcy singing a lullaby: Twiggle twiggle lily starch, howie rumble woddy arch. Up above a high Ohio, like a dime on a piano. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:42 PM The three versions of "Deck the Halls as listed by one Pogo nut: The most famous version: Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou. Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo! Then there is Beauregard's version: Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker n too-da-loo! Donkey Bonny brays a carol, Antelope cantaloup, "lope with you! Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon, Willy, folly go through! Chollie's collie barks at Barrow, Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo! We also have this third version: Duck us all in bowls of barley, Ninky 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! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:32 PM "My Anna played piano on a hunk of two by four" ór "My Anna played piano with a length of two by four" was, I am 'almost' sure, simply one of the lead lines to "A sailor man from Turkistan came knockin' at the door"....Walt seldom had Churchy or Howland or Pogo or Albert DO a complete song..(remember, most of these were in 3 panel daily strips).....and "Anna played pianna" was tossed in at a different time than "Mamie minded Mama"...maybe a year or two apart. ("Deck Us All" was done in various degrees of completeness on various occasions.) Part of the point of what Walt did was; that people mess up, forget, change, invent and mis-hear stuff...the characters were forever amusing us by being us.... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: DougR Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:28 PM "Nora's freezin' in the trolly, walla walla wash and kalamazoo" I loved that comic strip. Bloom County too. Now they are both gone, gone, gone. DougR |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: musicmick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:06 PM Yes, Don Firth, his name was Bugleboy. I disremembered. I, also, kind of liked those villains, Deacon Mushrat, Wiley Cat and Sarcophegus Macabre. Was Wiley patterned after Br'er Bear in Disney's SONG OF THE SOUTH? Who remembers the rest of the song that included the line. "My Anna played piano on a hunk of two by four"? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:07 PM "Bark Us All" was sort of 'referred to' a couple times, and sung partially once; never, I believe, as completely as "Deck Us All"...I will see if I can find in my 8-10 Pogo books the lines. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Don Firth Date: 04 Feb 02 - 11:56 AM If I remember correctly, that was Beauregard Bugleboy. And leave us not disremember Grundoon, the li'l groun'chunk chile wot clamped his li'l teeth on someone's (usually Albert Alligator or Churchy la Femme's) finger and dangling there for about two weeks' worth of strips (I never seed a groun'chunk in a diaper afore or since). Pogo for President! Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: lamarca Date: 04 Feb 02 - 10:55 AM Don't know if this will work as a link, but here are the results of a search for used copies of "Songs of the Pogo" on www.bookfinder.com (I already have a copy...). If the link doesn't work, just enter Songs Pogo in the search engine! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Haruo Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:46 AM A second version, or a second verse? There definitely were multiple verses. At least three were in a church Christmas carol booklet I put out maybe 10 years ago. I'll see if I can dig it out, if you mean verses, not "versions". Liland |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: musicmick Date: 04 Feb 02 - 12:28 AM I remember that there was a second version of Deck Us All With Boston Charlie. The dog, whose name was (excuse my spelling) Beauregard Bottomly, started one with, " Bark us all bow wows of folly " Maybe, one of you can dig up the rest of that classic. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 03 Feb 02 - 11:16 PM well, I am glad to see you made it home safely, Dick..*grin* |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 03 Feb 02 - 10:37 PM "My banjo and me is completely unstrung The rungs on the ladder rung three... Do nor wrangle the wrongs of Rangoon, dear Cause the Gangrene has set out to sea... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: Bill D Date: 03 Feb 02 - 07:48 PM "Fearless Fred, the footpad dread, set fire to his mammies bed. " was there more? not exactly...there was a routine where it was part of a set of things Albert was practicing...for example,
"Oh, Mamie minded Mama till one day in Singapore, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pogo's Songs From: toadfrog Date: 03 Feb 02 - 07:47 PM DECK US ALL (with Boston Charlie) is on the DT, HERE. I have seen a lot of King Sauerkrauts on forum, but can't find them just now. They may become accessible when they next update forum. More Walt Kelly snatches appear HERE, and HERE Mr. Friedman is in error about how Walt would have wrotten Home on the Range. He did write: Oh! give me a home, Twixt Buffalo and Rome Where the beer and the canteloupe lay . . . |
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