Lyr Req: Gypsy Rose and I Don't Give a Curse

Subject: Lyr Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Bu
From: GUEST,Wa Ban Zhou
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 12:55 PM

I'm looking for lyrics and any information about this song "Floatin' Down the River with Me Belly Button Winkin' At the Moon" which we heard on the radio in Akron,Ohio around 1967. Thanks
                                                    Wa Ban Zhou

Subject: Lyr Add: GYPSY ROSE AND I DON'T GIVE A CURSE
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 01:08 PM

Gypsy Rose and I don't Give a Curse
Kris Kristofferson
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Bob Shane (vocal, guitar), George Grove (vocal, guitar, banjo), Nick Reynolds (vocal, guitar), Paul Gabrielson (bass), Ben Schubert (Electric Fiddle, Tenor Guitar), Tom Green (Drums):
GYPSY ROSE AND I DON'T GIVE A CURSE

Seven starving sailors sold their summer homes in Saginaw
to search for something better in Rangoon (in Rangoon)
Down where Salty Sam from Turkistan had organized a marching band
of Mau Maus in the Crazy Horse Saloon.
They harmonized together singing verses of the netherworld
of darkness in an unfamiliar tune
And before the night was over they was a-floatin' down the river
with their belly buttons winkin' at the moon.
Chorus:
Oh, isn't it the same the whole world over?
People seem to go from bad to worse.
Whether you're a fighter or a lover,
Gypsy Rose and I don't give a curse.

Seven sorry sisters from the Sun Canal sorority
went strolling on a summer afternoon
Down where little Ricky Vanderpool would work his way through Sunday school
playing his electricfied kazoo
They'd hide their best to back it, not intending to distract it,
singing seven kinds of sorry out of tune,
And before the night was over they was a-floatin' down the river
with their belly buttons winkin' at the moon.

Chorus

http://users2.ev1.net/~smyth/linernotes/thesongs/GypsyRose.htm

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: Micca
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 03:35 PM

Thanks Sorcha, it has alliteration reminiscient of Edith Sitwells verses used in Facade set to music by William Walton
" When
Sir
Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell
   Where Proserpine first fell,
Blue as the gendarmerie were the waves of the sea,
   (Rocking and shocking the barmaid).

Nobody comes to give him his rum but the
Rim of the sky hippopotamus-glum
Enhances the chances to bless with a benison
Alfred Lord Tennyson crossing the bar laid
With cold vegetation from pale deputations
Of temperance workers (all signed In Memoriam)
Hoping with glory to trip up the Laureate's feet,
   (Moving in classical metres) ...

Like Balaclava, the lava came down from the
Roof, and the sea's blue wooden gendarmerie
Took them in charge while Beelzebub roared for his rum.
   ... None of them come!

        -- Edith Sitwell

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 04:04 PM

There was another crazy one about the same time, your red eyes match your bandanna, or something, but I can't find it.

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 04:31 PM

I finally remembered it! It's "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas"!

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 01:02 AM

Who says my memory for bits of oddness is a waste? How is this for a memory thirty years out of time?

Don



Your red scarf matches your eyes,

You closed your cover before stri-hi-hi-king

Your father's got the shipfitter's blues

Loving you has made me banans.

You burned your finger last evening,

While my back was turned.

I asked the waiter for Iodine,

But I dined all alone.

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 05:46 AM

Yep Don now I remember those words too, only one more thing. Where the hell did they come from???
Giok

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: DonMeixner
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 09:26 AM

Gee Giok,

Ah, does it really matter in the cosmic scream of things?

Don (who chuckles softly at his own malapropisms)

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 01:01 PM

Don
It ocurred to me that it might be on the Gorilla album, by the good old Bonzos. On the subject of oddball lyrics, anybody remember a song called, [I think] "On the Amazon". It had a memeorable line viz. On the Amazon, the prophylactics prowl. I think James Taylor recorded it at one time, althougfh I believe it's quite an old song.
Giok

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 01:07 PM

"Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" was buy Guy Marks, complete lyrics here. Didn't find who recorded it.

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 01:09 PM

Oh, Lordy, Giok! That is funny! I'm going to start a new thread! ("On the Amazon" is by Don MacLean)

Subject: RE: Req: Floatin' down the River with me Belly Button
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 01:48 PM

Same again with Midi