Help: Johnny Booker assistance requested

01 Oct 99 - 09:49 PM (#119975)
Subject: Johnny Booker assistance requested
From: [e-mail]

I am looking for the album which contains "Johnny Booker", you know, the song that goes "Monkey married a baboon's sister..." It was on 78rpm, and had about 4 songs. This song has been a bone of contention between my wife and I for as long as I can remeber. She says it never existed, and I swear I had the record when I was a kid, (circa. 1948-54). If you know who it is by, please give me a hand and let me know who it is by and the nome of the album. Thanks

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01 Oct 99 - 11:54 PM (#120009)
Subject: RE: Help: Johnny Booker assistance requested
From: dick greenhaus

I think that the one you're seeking is by Cousin Emmy; Brunswick label as I dimly recall. Fine album.

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03 Oct 99 - 11:02 PM (#120360)
Subject: RE: Help: Johnny Booker assistance requested
From: GutBucketeer

Funny that this post came up when it did.

I am just learning "John Booker" from Mel Bay's Frailing the 5-string Banjo by Eric Muller and Barbara Koeler. It lists a source of an original recording as "Elektra EKS 7276". The version that is shown doesn't have your words in it though.

It is in the DT if you search on "john booker" and not Johny.

JAB

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04 Oct 99 - 06:30 PM (#120700)
Subject: RE: Help: Johnny Booker assistance requested
From: Bobby Bob, Ellan Vannin

Is this the same Johnny Booker that has the chorus:

Singing I do believe; I will believe.
Old Johnny Booker was a gay old bugger In one of the verses, the doctor advises him to rub his wife's left leg with gin. The following verse is -

Now old Johnny Booker, he thought it was a sin
To rub his wife's left leg with gin.
He poured that gin right down his throttle,
And rubbed his wife's left leg with the bottle.

If this rings bells, BigJ will be able to supply the rest when he gets back from the singing weekend in Forkill.

Shoh slaynt,

Bobby Bob

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04 Oct 99 - 10:36 PM (#120778)
Subject: Lyr Add: JOHNNY BOOKER^^^
From: GutBucketeer

Oops. If you search on john booker it doesn't come up. the file name is JNBOOKER. It has both the lyrics and the tune.

Here are the lyrics from DT.

JOHNNY BOOKER

I saw an old man come walkin' by,
I said, "Old man, your hog's gonna die"
Says," If he dies, I'll eat the meat
And give Johnny Booker the head and the feet."

cho: Do, Johnny Booker, oh do, do me do
Do, Johnny Booker, oh do.

Old Johnny Booker is a fine old man
Washed his face in an old tin can
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel,
Died with a toothache in his heel.

cho:

Monkey married the baboon's sister
First he hugged her, then he kissed her
Kissed so hard he raised a blister
Do, Johnny Booker, oh do.

cho:

Kissed so hard he couldn't kiss faster
Stuck on like a mustard plaster
Wasn't that a sad disaster?
Do, Johnny Booker, oh do.

Recorded by Cousin Emmy
@banjo
filename[ JNBOOKER
play.exeJNBOOKER
RG

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