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Lyr Add: Old Gray Chicken (parody of Old Dun Cow)
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD GRAY CHICKEN (Miller, Hoffman) From: GUEST,Charlie Miller Date: 02 Dec 05 - 07:29 AM According to the inimatable Mike Miller (no relation), this is one of his top 100 folk songs. It's a parody of a parody of an Irish song, "The Old Dun Cow" and was written in the early 80's by me and Jay Hoffman in my car in a thunder storm on the way to a gig by our friends "So's Your Mom" Pardon the fractured Yiddish: The Old Gray Chicken Charlie Miller & Jay Hoffman 1983 Some friends und I in a public place Vas playing pinochle one night When all of a sudden in the rebbe ran His punnim vas ghastly white Nu? Says Cohen, have you seen a ghost Have you seen your tantele Chia? Vell Mine tantele Chia be schtupped he says The ferschtunkene pless is on fire On fire? Says Cohen, dere's a bit of luck Come along mit mir und ve'll see Ve'll go down in the basement If the fire ain't dere ve'll have a rare old schpree So ve all vent down mit good old Cohen The beer it vasn't easily missed Und ve vasn't dere ten minutes before Ve vas all quite pished Cho: Und dere vas Cohen Chupside down Moppin up the vishkey from the floor And its schnapps, schnapps the rebbe cried As he come knockin at the door Vell don't let him in til its all mopped up Then someone shouted "ROSENTHAL" Und ve all got blue blind paralytic schikkered Ven the Old Gray Chicken burned down. Den Katz ran over to the Manachewitz keg And gave it just a few hard knocks Den he started taking off his gotkes Likewise his dirty socks Nu? Says Cohen, Dat ain't allowed You can't do that around here There'll be no washing your gotkes in the Manachewitz keg Ven ve got stale old beer Cho: Den all of a sudden vas a mighty crash Half the blazin roof gave way Und ve vas drowning in the gonza floor Ah but ve vas all quite gay So we got some shmatas to seal the cracks Und nailed ourselves inside Und ve was drinkin pints of schnapps Til ve was bleary-eyed Cho: |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Gray Chicken From: Snuffy Date: 02 Dec 05 - 08:48 AM London was not in Ireland last time I looked |
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Old Gray Chicken From: GUEST,Charlie Miller Date: 02 Dec 05 - 09:34 AM My understanding is that The Old Dun Cow was an English parody of Irish songs, so this is a yiddish parody of an English parody of Irish songs or something like that. |
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