Lyr Add: Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips (Cassidy)

Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN LIPS AND LIZARD HIPS (Cassidy)
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 04:25 PM

CHICKEN LIPS AND LIZARD HIPS

1. Oh, when I was a little kid I never liked to eat,
Mama'd put things on my plate, I'd dump them on her feet,
But then one day she made this soup, I ate it all in bed,
I asked her what she put in it, and this is want she said.

CHORUS: Chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes
Monkey legs and buzzard eggs and salamander thighs
Rabbit ears and camel rears and tasty toe-nail pies
Stir them all together, it's Mama's Soup Surprise.

2. I went into the bathroom and stood beside the sink,
I said I'm feeling slightly ill, I think I'd like a drink,
Mama said "I've just the thing, I'll get it in a wink,
It's full of lots of protein, and vitamins I think." CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Stewart
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 04:34 PM

Is this to the tune of "Granny Hold The Candle While I Shave The Chicken's Lip"?

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:02 PM

Don't know - couldn't get the tune to work on your link - I just typed Chicken Lips into Google and this is what it handed me -

From another thread on Greensleeves where Spaw asked about Chicken Lips and an airtight butt on a frog.

Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Joe_F
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:49 PM

And me without a spoon!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Barbara
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:13 PM

The daughter sang this one in grade school, and seems like the tune is similar to something else, like the Billboard song. I'll ask her.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:20 PM

Hey!! Thanks as I had never heard that particular ditty. Easy to work out any number of tunes for it. Joe Offer ought to go for this one with his campfire and kids songs stuff. Very cute.

Thanks Steve...

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Barbara
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 03:53 PM

Hey! I couldn't get the link to work, either, but the tune is "Dunderbeck, Oh Dunderbeck." Guess you can see where the writers got their inspiration. "Dogs and cats and long tailed rats' Will nevermore be seen/They've all been ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine". Only now it's Momma's Soup Surprise.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:30 PM

Norton is it you....or Spaw that is going senile?

The lyrics have been a long-time resident in the Digital Traditions Database - http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4017

My guess is...Spaw knows his verses...and you don't know the DT.....so next time just slither a phrase between two [brackets] and up will POP the lyrics.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 08:39 PM

Barbara...it appears you too are ignorant of the wonderful DT [bracket] search......your reference, with chords, and midi tune..... is ALSO in the collection http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1756.

PLEASE Learn to become intelligent posters....but then again...its not your fault....the local giggling-gattito....is again,too busy holding healing-circles, to properly in-service the new-boots in the elementry rudiments of forum decorum.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 09:04 PM

From today's AP Wire Service

TAMALES OF DEATH!!!

Screamed the headlines in Mexico.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- A tamale vendor in western Mexico was arrested after police discovered a carved-up body in his home, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors said Wednesday. The vendor denied using human flesh in his food.

The vendor, who sold tamales from a cart, was arrested Tuesday after police received an anonymous tip that he had a dismembered body in his house, spokeswoman Lorena Cortes said.

Police entered the home and found body parts, some of which appeared to have been boiled with herbs, Cortes said. Officials were trying to determine if tamales found in the house contained human remains.

The suspect told police he killed the man, who has not yet been identified by police, in a drunken argument on Monday, but he denied using the body parts in his tamales, Cortes said.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 11:13 PM

CHICKEN LIPS AND LIZARD HIPS was written by John & Nancy Cassidy. It is sung by Bruce Springsteen on the various-artists compilation "For Our Children" 1991; also on "For Our Children: 10th Anniversary Edition," 1999.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 04:11 PM

Shades of Sweeney Todd!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Chicken Lips - just for spaw
From: LilyFestre
Date: 23 Apr 04 - 10:17 PM

Chicken Lips....now there's a blast from the past! Used to have a teacher who we affectionately called Chicken Lips...never knew there was a song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle