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Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store

30 Nov 05 - 09:09 AM (#1617157)
Subject: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,Mrr

I had a little candy store, business it was bad
So I asked (someone? My wife?) and this is what she said (pronounced to rhyme)... anybody know this song? Thanks,

-Mrr

30 Nov 05 - 10:47 AM (#1617238)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: Sorcha

Found this,
    I had a little candy store,
    Business was so bad,
    I asked mine mama what to do,
    This is what she said.
    Take a little gasoline,
    Put it on the floor.
    Take a match,
    Give a scratch,
    Poof, no candy store.
Here:
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol02/vol02.111
Interesting site.

30 Nov 05 - 11:03 AM (#1617251)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,allan S.

I learned it back in the 1950's at U-Conn folk song club.

30 Nov 05 - 12:10 PM (#1617311)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,riggy

sung to the tune of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, so I'd guess this falls into the anti-semitic genre'. Something about it makes me think it was written by someone jewish, so it's like using the N word in rap.   The chorus I've heard [ from Danny Kornbloom of
Catskill Mts NY ] runs:

Oy vey iz mere, no more candy store
Oy vey iz mere, boint it to da floor
Took out an insurance policy
Made my wife beneficiary
Bought a house in Miami
No more candy store

Riggy

07 Jul 15 - 05:43 PM (#3721785)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,Jill Tallmer

My mom just started singing this in the middle of a discussion about baseball and national anthems. She's about to turn 90. She was very excited to see that her song was Googleable. Thank you, Mudcat--especially for pointing out that "bad" rhymes with "said" in fake Yiddish. Mom sings it straight, so it never rhymed.

19 Nov 22 - 03:12 PM (#4158110)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GUEST,vivian billick

i learned this song at a jewish camp in the laurentians north of montreal
    once i had a candy store
    business was so bad
    i asked a man what to do
    this is what he said
    take a can of gasoline
    spill it on the floor
    take a match
    make a scratch
    no more candy store
    hey, candy store, candy store
    no more candy store !

19 Nov 22 - 04:00 PM (#4158114)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I had a little candy store
From: GerryM

I'm sure I've seen another, longer thread about this song elsewhere on this site. Maybe the two could be combined, or at any rate linked to each other.

20 Nov 22 - 03:37 AM (#4158151)
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: Joe Offer

Next time we see Riggy at the Mudcat Singaround, we need to ask him to sing this.

15 Dec 22 - 06:47 PM (#4159421)
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: I had a little candy store
From: Mrrzy

Dad used to sing these lyrics when the Israeli national anthem played.