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26 Aug 05 - 06:56 PM (#1550603) Subject: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: GUEST,bookperson39 I'm looking for the lyrics to a comic "folk song" we used to sing in college in the late 1950s. This is what I know: In an anarchistic garrett, So lowly and so mean Oh smell the pungent odor of nitroglycerine. blah blah blah CHORUS: Oh it's Uncle Ivanovich's turn to throw the bomb. The last one it was thrown by Cousin Tom. ______'s aim was bad and and the copskys they got Dad. Oh it's Uncle Ivanovich's turn to throw the bomb. It goes on with names of various family members who are equally inept at "throwing the bomb". The tune is a somber fake Russian melody. Any geezers out there? Audrey |
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26 Aug 05 - 07:28 PM (#1550622) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: Arkie This is in the database as "Its Sister Jenny's Turn To Throw The Bomb". There is also another thread on this song. Database |
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26 Aug 05 - 10:40 PM (#1550709) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: Arkie If you click on the Database link above it will also take you to the other thread where this song is discussed. |
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27 Aug 05 - 12:00 PM (#1550829) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: GUEST,bookperson39 Thank you so much. I needed the answer in a hurry and didn't have time to learn to use your archives. I'm sure I own a copy of Song Fest and we are in the process of moving and I couldn't find it! Many thanks from an old folkie of the 50s. Audrey |
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27 Aug 05 - 02:35 PM (#1550917) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: Arkie You are most welcome. I lost my copy of Song Fest in my move to Arkansas over 30 years ago, but the Digital Tradition database has come in handy on many occasions. That and the thread search will be quite useful once you can spend a little time with them. |
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13 Aug 10 - 12:36 AM (#2964118) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: GUEST In an anarchistic garret So meager and so mean Smell the pungent odor of nitroglycerine They're busy making fuses and filling cans with nails and the little Slavic children set up this mournful wail: It's Sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb The last one it was thrown by Brother Tom Mother's aim is bad and the copskys they know Dad So it's Sister jenny's turn to throw the Bomb Jenny took the bomb and started off Mother said "Now mind you, go blow up Templehoff!" All that night they waited till the dawn turned into day.. and the little Slavic children set up this mournful lay.... |
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18 Jan 12 - 09:09 PM (#3292516) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: GUEST,Bob Winston One verse should be: Early in the morning, our Jenny started off Mind you said her mother, blow up the Peterof She did and the family waited 'till dawn turned into noon and all the Slavic children set up this mournul tune. |
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19 Jan 12 - 10:26 AM (#3292804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: Charmion In the version of this I learned from my mother (McGill '51), Mother instructs Sister Jenny to blow up Templehof, not the Peterhof. The folk process at work again -- the Berlin Airlift was on all the front pages when she learned it. |
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17 Oct 16 - 05:43 PM (#3815216) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist's garrett From: GUEST,quodlibet Funny---I was thinking of this song today with the bombing of Rep. Party place in NC---I learned it from ''Song Fest" back in the 50s. The book has long since fallen apart; has anyone got any idea when the song was actually written? 40s? or early 1900s, when anarchists were particularly busy? |
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17 Oct 16 - 08:49 PM (#3815244) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: cnd Listen to two versions: More folksy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMepfv8T9f8 More rocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgBM4JSKEA The Glencoves version (2nd link) was released in 1963 [SOURCE 1] The other version, by Leslie Jones, was recorded later in the 80s and released in the early 90s. Text version of the Socialist Songbook: http://www.hengstrom.net/songbook/54.html This post from the other page on the topic says before 1930s, but it wasn't in Song Fest in 1948 (but was in 1958). |
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09 Jul 21 - 10:44 PM (#4112828) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: cnd Well, thanks to the bot whose post above will most certainly be removed at some point, I can pick up on some slack work I did back in 2016... Lyrics from the Socialist Songbook link above, with some light formatting: IT'S SISTER JENNY'S TURN TO THROW THE BOMB In an anarchist hovel, so humble and so mean, Smell the pungent odors of nitroglycerine, For they are making fuses and filling jars with nails While all the Slavic children sing out with mournful wails. CHORUS: Oh, it's sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb, bomb, bomb, The last one did in poor old brother Tom, Tom, Tom, For Momsky's aim is bad and the copskies all know Dad So it's sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb. |
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09 Jul 21 - 11:00 PM (#4112829) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: cnd Transcription of the Leslie Fish recording (first link in my 2016 post): It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb (A1 on Leslie Fish on It's Sister Jenny's Turn to Throw the Bomb, 1987) In an anarchistic garret, so dingy and so mean Smell the pungent odor of nitroglycerine From the piles of pipe and powder and pamphlets to the sky Midst the dust' and dirty laundry you can hear this mournful cry CHORUS Oh, it's sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb (throw the bomb!) God knows what's become of brother Tom (brother To-o-om!) Momma's aim is bad, and the cops, they all know Dad So it's sister Jenny's turn to throw the bomb There are knives and guns and daggers scattered on the front room floor Look behind the sofa, you'll find two-dozen more But cousin Mac's in prison, and grandpa is long dead And uncle Jim has left us to become a 'Frisco Red! CHORUS (So it's...) In the hole you'll find the baby teething on some dynamite Try and get it from her and you'll find you're in a fight But she's too young to do it, and momma's baking bread And uncle Jake is tripping and he's flipping out his head CHORUS (So it's...) There's a Sabo Tabby Kitten sitting purring by the door And lyin' in the bed there's a smiling saboteur But our cat's no good at bombing and none of us are sure That that smiling, sleeping freak is not a big provocateur CHORUS (So it's...) |
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09 Jul 21 - 11:03 PM (#4112830) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: In an anarchist garrett From: cnd The version in my second link has already been wondrously transcribed by the golden-eared Jim Dixon here, though a better recording than the link I shared is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4bNOcxHtg. (In hindsight, 'rocky' may be a strong word for the song... but at the very least, there's no dulcimer) |
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10 Jul 21 - 05:21 PM (#4112889) Subject: RE: Info: In an anarchist garrett From: Charley Noble My mother used this as a lullaby for when she wanted my brother and I to go to sleep. Of course, we didn't go to sleep but stayed up chorusing "Bomb, bomb, bomb!" Cheerily, Charlie Ipcar |