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05 Aug 99 - 08:01 AM (#102488) Subject: Sarah The Whale From: Amber I've been trying hard to find the lyrics to a kid's song called (I think) "Sarah the Whale." It's all about this whale in San Fransisco that eats everything in sight. I haven't been able to find it anywhere. If you know the lyrics or ANYTHING about it, please email me at amberlicious21@hotmail.com thanks |
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05 Aug 99 - 08:09 AM (#102491) Subject: Lyr Add: Sarah the Whale From: Wolfgang SARAH THE WHALE (tune: Dixie) In Frisco town there lived a whale They fed her peanuts by the pail And washtubs and bathtubs And sailboats and schooners Her name is Sarah and she's a peach But don't put food within her reach Or babies, or nursemaids Or chocolate ice cream sodas She loves to smile and when she smiles You can see her teeth for miles and miles And her tonsils and her spare ribs And things too fierce to mention Now what can you do in a case like that There's nothing to do but sit on your hat Or your toothbrush, or your best friend Or anything else that's helpless copy from http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/flying.pigs/songs.html by Wolfgang |
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05 Aug 99 - 08:24 AM (#102495) Subject: RE: Sarah The Whale From: Roger the zimmer Wolfgang, I wonder what the translator would make of those lyrics! I don't know enough German to try! I had a friend who claimed he could say only one essential phrase in a large number of languages. It was: "My friend will pay for the drinks" |
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05 Aug 99 - 08:38 AM (#102499) Subject: RE: Sarah The Whale From: Jeri If you translate it to German, then back to English, you get:
Sarah d Whale
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05 Aug 99 - 11:00 PM (#102708) Subject: RE: Sarah The Whale From: Song 'n Food Oh My!!
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13 Aug 10 - 01:13 AM (#2964124) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST,Syd this is a song at my camp and it goes In Frisco Bay there lives a whale And she eats peanuts by the pail And washtubs and bathtubs And sailboats and schooners Her name is Sarah and she's a peach But don't let food get in her reach Or babies, or nursemaids Or chocolate ice cream sodas She loves to smile and when she smiles You can see her teeth for miles and miles And her tonsils and her spare ribs And things too fierce to mention Now what can you do in a case like that There's nothing to do but sit on your hat Or your toothbrush, or your best friend Or anything else that's useless |
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13 Aug 10 - 01:11 PM (#2964434) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: McGrath of Harlow Sounds like a relative of A horse named Bill --------Link fixed. Joeclone-------- |
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13 Aug 10 - 03:12 PM (#2964543) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: Peter the Squeezer Sounds more like a girl I went to school with :-0 |
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15 Oct 13 - 05:03 AM (#3566992) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST,ally the version ive heard i a bit different at the end...instead d of sitting on your best friend, he says grandmother. |
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22 Oct 13 - 11:21 PM (#3569093) Subject: Lyr Add: THE WHALE (from Burl Ives) From: Jim Dixon THE WHALE As sung by Burl Ives on "Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites" (1951) and "The Folk Collection Volume One" (2013). In San Francisco town there lived a whale. She ate porkchops by the pail, By the pillbox, by the suitcase, By the bathtub, by the schooner. Her name was Sarah and she's a peach, But you can't leave food within her reach, Nor nursemaids, nor airedales, Nor chocolate ice-cream sodas. She eats a lot, but when she smiles, You can see her teeth for miles and miles, And her adenoids, and her spareribs, And things too fierce to mention. So what can you do in a case like that? What can you do but sit on your hat, Or your toothbrush, or your grandmother, Or anything else that's helpless? |
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23 Mar 15 - 08:50 PM (#3696276) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: Charley Noble I also knew it growing up, most likely from Burl Ives. So where did this song come from? Charlie Ipcar |
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23 Mar 15 - 09:54 PM (#3696281) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: EBarnacle In Burl Ives' Animal Fair album of the same period, a Children's Record Guild album, This song is part of a medley which includes most of the snippets which are known as A Horse Named Bill. |
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24 Mar 15 - 02:38 AM (#3696303) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST,Dave Hunt My version....no idea where I got it...''twas a long time ago! __________________________ I had horse his name was Bill, When he ran away he wouldn't stand still He ran away one day, and also I ran with him He ran so fast that he could not stop, he ran into a barber's shop And fell exhaustionised, with his eye teeth, in the barber's left shoulder I had a girl her name was Daisy, when she sang the cat went crazy With delirium, St Vitus, all sorts of cataleptics Daisy's my girl and she's a peach, but don't leave food within her reach Or nursemaids, or babies or chocolate ice cream sodas She loves to laugh and when she smiles, you just see teeth for miles and miles And tonsils and spare ribs and things too fierce to mention She loves games and when she plays, she runs around for days and days And vibrates and yodels and breaks the ten commandments She went up in a balloon so big, the people on earth they looked like pigs Like lice, like mice, like fleas and like fleasen The balloon turned up with it's bum side higher and landed on the wife of a country Squire Who yelled like steam, like a train and like dynamite Well what would you do in a case like that, what would you do but jump on you're hat Or your toothbrush, or your mother-in-law, or anything else that's helpless cheers!! |
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24 Mar 15 - 02:46 AM (#3696305) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST Missed a bit! After 'She loves games' verse _____________ She's goin' out in the woods next year, gonna hunt for beer and not for deer She is, she ain't, she's a real sharpshootress At shooting birds she is a beaut, there is no bird she cannot shoot In the eyes. in the nose, in the teeth or in the finger. |
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13 Aug 19 - 02:17 PM (#4004469) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST As perfromed by a very early Kermit the Frog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIshhoyyC4&fbclid=IwAR0n9ewMTr2wktPJIh4dWlpx4ae_t00J09MlNvuh-zfVA6GqJt3TxSAXCGw |
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14 Aug 19 - 11:11 AM (#4004513) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: Mrrzy Her name is Leela, she's a peach is in Ed McCurdy' Horse Named Bill. The cataleptics verse is in Cisco Houston's, I think. |
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14 Aug 19 - 12:29 PM (#4004520) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: Stevebury This dates back at least to Carl Sandburg's 'The American Songbag' (1927). Sandburg notes: "The tempo for this song is indicated as 'with lucid intervals if possible.' It is a highbrow folk song disbursed in many places where the higher learning is sought." Not noted above, but the tune is the first part of "Dixie". Further speculation and erudition at the Ballad Index http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/San340.html |
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22 Oct 19 - 12:12 AM (#4014788) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sarah the Whale From: GUEST,!! The version I learned is a little different: In Frisco Bay there was a whale They fed her oysters by the pail By the bathtub, by the teacup, Thy thimble and by schooner. Her name was Sarah and when she smiled She showed her teeth for miles and miles And her tonsils. And her spareribs And things too fierce to mention. Ohhhh what would you do with a whale like that? What would you do if she sat on your hat? Or your toothbrush, or you mother, Or anything else that's useless! |