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Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?

14 Aug 02 - 01:20 AM (#764950)
Subject: no idea
From: GUEST

My husband and his father sing this ditty...
    Oh, I met her at the garbage picker's ball
    I met her at the garbage picker's ball.
    She had corns and a bunion and smelled like spanish onions.
    Oh, I met her at the garbage picker's ball

Has ANYONE ever heard where this comes from???


14 Aug 02 - 10:49 AM (#765112)
Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: Sorcha

Parody of Darktown Strutters Ball?


14 Aug 02 - 10:48 PM (#765575)
Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: X

Could that be an old Hommer and Jethro song?


21 Aug 02 - 01:42 AM (#768941)
Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: GUEST

Was it in reference to you?

This is GOOD ONE....there MUST someone who knows more of it????


21 Aug 02 - 04:10 AM (#768976)
Subject: RE: no idea: Lyr Req: Garbage picker's ball?
From: JudeL

Is this likely to be another version of the charladies ball which I've heard sung at Chippenham in the admiral's bear essential sing?


07 Dec 09 - 12:53 AM (#2782609)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Well, t'ain't it.

There once was a man named Joe
Who had very crusty toes
He had corns and bunions
That smelled like onions
And that's how the story goes


17 Apr 14 - 05:49 PM (#3619853)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Unknown

My father sings this song too. It was a little ditty that soldiers in WWll would sing. I'm not quite sure if what you have there is the whole song, or just a verse.


07 Jun 14 - 05:39 PM (#3631202)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Garbage Picker's Ball?
From: GUEST,Mickey

probably too late but my dad served in the air forcein WWII and he also sang this.

I know a lassy she's smelly but she's classy
and I met her at the garbage pickers ball.
She had calluses, corns and bunions
and she smelt like spanish onions
Oh I met her at the garbage pickers ball.