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784.4973 A book of nonsense songs; over 100 songs,
words and music. Illustrated with drawings
by Charles Keller. Crown Publishers
[1961]
106p. illus, music.
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Tunes, with chord symbols for guitar.
Words, printed as text, follow each no.
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WORDS AND MUSIC
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songs have had for young people of any age range. Nonsense songs show how
poetic rhythm and rhyme originated in melody.
The dominance of music over language forms is more elemental and more
obvious in the second kind of nonsense songs, which are not about nonsense but
which rather consist of nonsense. Whether the texts here are formed entirely of
nonsense syllables or partly of what appear to be real words that are removed
from any reliable reference, the emphasis lies wholly on the sonorous or musical
quality of word sounds, so that only the sound and fury of language remains,
while nothing signifies. Melodious vowel formants and rhythmic consonant
clicks are shaped into music-like sequences of singsong syllables. Try singing
a short declarative sentence about anything at all to a phrase from a simple
dance tune. You will probably find that something like "rum, tee turn, tee turn"
is needed to complete it, and perhaps "hi-oh, and a dumbledee dum" as a parallel
line.
Some such combinations as the rum-and-tea mentioned may drift momentarily
over into unexpected word forms of a given language. Normal usages of the
language familiar to the singer may also delimit and guide the kinds of syl-
lables commonly trolled. But so surely do nonsense syllables serve a purely
musical function that when they do occasionally congeal into true words, or even
into groups of words, these seem accidental, irrelevant, misplaced, and cor-
respondingly ludicrous. I dread the day when some zealous psychiatrist subjects
the text of "Barbara Totally High" to analysis in depth, when it is no more than
a convenient set of vocalizations to an asymmetrical round.
In practice, the two kinds of nonsense songs cannot be separated sharply, for
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both trends pervade the same songs. Some of the typical nonsense song is about
nonsense and some consists of nonsense. Thus most nonsense songs have re-
frains or interlinear fillers of nonsense syllables, and many contain little else.
But a song like "The Three Sisters" presents a more or less connected story
interspersed with extraneous jingling "pronounces" (or nonsense), while "Sally
Goodin" has more likely just grown out of foot-tapping improvisations into seem-
ingly intelligible patter. The traditional nonsense song is by nature free and
easy, impudent and imaginative, and any rule prescribed could only become an
incentive to its transgression. Syllable play would be wasted on "Handy Andy"
or under the tale of "The Danbury Mare."
Where do nonsense songs come from, particularly those in this first compre-
hensive collection? Why, they are traditional, which in honest translation means
that we shall forever wonder. They have just been sung around casually by any-
one who enjoyed singing them, and people still learn them mostly by hearing
them and unavoidably singing along. Folklorists call this oral tradition, which
means they haven't yet proved to what extent each song was spread in print,
music hall, school, recording or broadcast, and until they face up to it there is
still time to spin romantic theories about homespun art.
The traditional nonsense song, like all true folk song, may have originated
anywhere, most often full-blown as the creation of an individual, who in turn
borrowed heavily from previous tradition. The eventual forms taken by a song
result from selective preservation and variation, orally but also in stage per-
formance and print, of what somebody took up as a good idea. Anyone feels free
to sing such a song in his own way, to make unwitting changes besides, and to
call all other versions wrong. So everybody participates in the process of dif-
ferentiation and growth of the song, except the self-conscious folklorist, who
refuses to intervene. (A folklorist is an animated recording-machine accessory
that filters out the fun others are having, the better to register its outward ac-
cidents of form. Let two boys choose up sides for a game of ball, and a folk-
lorist will come along to set it down and spoil the game.)
The songs in this collection are traditional among English-speaking people,
mainly in the United States. Many if not most of them have appeared in print,
one way or another. Only the unwary will tick off those not immediately recog-
nized. Yet neither words nor tunes have appeared previously in precisely these
forms, which are, of course, the only right ones. I don't hold with editors who
abdicate editorial judgment or who take being objective to mean lacking ob-
jective. These are tunes and lines to have fun with, singing.
To give in detail where and how each of the songs in this collection originated
and in what variety of forms it has been known would require another book much
larger than this, and would interest only specialists; people who just enjoy sing-
ing together wouldn't read it. A proper bibliography alone would run to several
thousand items, and would deprive scholars of their favorite sport. It would make
no sense to do that, but go ahead
check up on me.
Nonsense songs reflect a range of impulses and activities that defy simple
classification. Some are dance tunes which have been deedled until their
vocalized rhythms vaguely resemble words or perhaps the sounds of instruments.
Some are tall tales or insy-versies, with absurd embellishments and fanciful
tangents. Many portray animals acting almost as foolishly as people. Some are
satires on serious ballads or parodies on humbug, false sentimentality or pre-
tended malevolence. "Clementine" heads a bevy of unlovelies whose model is
the immortal Katisha. The trouble with most collegiate nonsense songs is not
that they are so uppity-clever, but that they rarely carry memorable tunes.
chief principle in selecting and assembling these songs has been musical
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quality and appeal. A nonsense song must have a sprightly tune capable of
inviting and supporting endless repetition without growing raucous or unfriendly.
(I hope nobody notices my inclusion of a few decidedly gloombrious items: Such
also form the stuff of nonsense.) Musicians in particular may observe that the
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nonsense song provides the only kind of music to which aesthetic notions about
pure form can conceivably apply. Such pure extract of musical form devoid of
substance is in fact a wholly nonsensical concept, and this book therefore ought
to be the first to explore it properly. But I have yet to discover a nonsense song
without human and humane relevance, for who would sing it?
The versions of the songs in this collection have been chosen and reworked
from among diverse occasional and often careless treatments of the texts and
tunes. It has not made sense to honor old misprints, forgetfulness, conventional-
ity or kindred errors in nonsense songs above their core of poetic and musical
imagery. Enough of slipshod gleanings of any and every bit of song doggerel that
is not nailed down. In spite of TV standards, one may have a conscience about
ways of having fun. I have been critical about songs and song elements that
reflect merely transient or dubious fashions. I have sought to compile full,
chortling texts and laughing tunes that people like to live with. I have not limited
the guitar chordings to routines or makeshifts. In particular I have carefully
weighed the positive roots of certain nineteenth-century minstrel cliches, of
undoubted popular style and origin, against their forced and unfunny lampoons of
social groups. Not musical or poetical or even theatrical purposes, but only the
sorriest commercial incentives, can have been responsible for the tawdry ex-
ploitation of imaginative elements in early American Negro song for the mocking
of their authors. Making fun of anyone goes against the grain of nonsense songs,
for their good spirits come alive only where people have healthy fun together.
As with my earlier Dances From Woodland and The Abelard Folksong Book, I
am much beholden here for some song material, and even more for cordial good-
time attitudes, to my friends and neighbors of the Catskill Mountains of New York
State; specifically to Latius and Mary Avery, Elwyn Davis, Sarah Decker, George
Edwards, Frank Joy, Celia Kelder, Ernie Sager, Harry Siemsen, Mike Todd,
Aaron Van De Bogart and George Van Kleeck. But none of these kind people
bears any blame for the results.
Sine merrily, sing lustily, and have fun! .. _ ,
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Never knew he was on his head
Till on his toe he chanced to tread.
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Oh, be careful
Oh brothers, do be careful,
Oh, be careful:
Seek Yerushalem.
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For she charms the frogs, the cats and dogs, likewise the honeyhee.
Everybody loves my Susie, and the others love her too,
But you ought to see my Susie when she does the Susie Q.
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Give it a nip up, hop up, hoop de dooden doo,
You ought to see my Susie when she does the Susie Q.
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I hawed my horses, and I gee'd my cart,
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Oh, a wagonful of corn meal, turn
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The finest little wood you ever did see, And the leaf was on the twig,
And the wood just stood And the twig was on the branch,
As a little wood should And the branch was on the tree,
While the green grass grew all And the tree was in the wood,
around, all around, And the wood just stood
While the green grass grew all around. As a little wood should
While the green grass grew all
Now in this wood there was a around, all around,
little tree, While the green grass grew all around.
The finest little tree you ever did see,
And the tree was in the wood, Now on this leaf there was a little nest,
And the wood just stood The finest little nest you ever did see,
As a little wood should And the nest was on the leaf,
While the green grass grew all And the leaf was on the twig. .
While the green grass grew all The finest little bird you ever did see,
around, all around, And the bird was in the egg,
While the green grass grew all around. And the egg was in the nest. . .
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And the twig was on the branch, The finest little feather you ever
And the branch was on the tree, did see,
And the tree was in the wood, And the feather was on the bird,
And the wood just stood And the bird was in the egg. .
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Cindy New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CA2DEN
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1 You ought to see my Cindy, Her face is of the ruddiest,
She lives a way down South, Her hair a chestnut brown,
And she's so sweet, the honey bees Her eyes just like a thunder cloud
Swarm around her mouth. Before the rain comes down. [Refrain]
She threw her arms around my neck Stop making such commotion. [Refrain]
And hung on like a leech. [Refrain]
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in Jerusalem, didn't fare so wellium,
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum, Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
He had a fine house and he lived He couldn't reach Heaven, so he
very sprucium, had to go to Hellium,
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum. Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum.
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Hi ho jerum and hi ho jerum, 6 He on down till he got to
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Skeedum a rinky doolium, Sheolium,
skeedum a rinky doolium, Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum. The Devil said, "Fine! We'll
shovel on the coalium!"
2 Now on his doorstep stood a human Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum.
wreckium, [Refrain]
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
He wore a bowler hat, but the brim 7 "My soul! I declare, this is a
was 'round his neckium, mighty warm hotelium!"
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum, Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
[Refrain] "This is just a very common, very
ordinary Hellium."
3 The poor man asked for a piece of Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum.
bread and cheesium, [Refrain]
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
But the rich man shook his head, 8 And that's how we know why riches
said, "I'll send for the po- are no jokium,
leecium! Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum,
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum. We'll all get to Heaven, 'cause
[Refrain] we're all stony brokium,
Glory hallelujah, hi ho jerum.
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Marlene went walking down the street while wearing a little green hat,
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It'll never do to give it up so,
It'll never do to give it up, eo get the axe.
I t'll never do to give it up so long,
Go get the gollycully, go get the axe,
It'll never do to give it up so.
I liked to go in swimming,
But now I am a bigger boy,
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thirty-six verses, each the same as the first. Sometimes
only thirty-two are sung.]
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Now Jennie, get that hoe-cake done, for one,
Now Jennie, get that hoe-cake done.
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He married a mermaid one fine night.
From this union there came three,
A porgy, and a porpoise, and the
P^P^ other was me.
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Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh, for a life on the rolling sea!
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1 There was an old sow, she had five 3 The little pigs sleep in very clean
little pigs, straw,
Igs [snort] igs [whistle] sh'- Aw [snorf] aw [whistle] sh'-
nannigo digs; nannigo daw;
Oh! there was an old sow, she had Oh! the little pigs sleep in very
five little pigs. clean straw.
Lillibullee, lillibullara, lara, lara Lillibullee, lillibullara, lara, lara
lee; lee;
Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man. Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man.
An [snorf] an [whistle] sh'-nan- An [snort] an [whistle] sh'-nan-
nigo Dan, nigo Dan,
Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man. Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man.
2 The littlepigs squeal when they're 4 The little pigs make us the finest
under the gate, of bacon,
Ate [snort] ate [whistle] sh'-nan- Aeon aeon [whistle]
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nigo date; nannigo dacon;
Oh! the little pigs squeal when The little pigs make us the finest
they're under the gate. of bacon.
Lillibullee, lillibullara, lara, lara Lillibullee, lillibullara, lara, lara
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Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man. Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man.
An [snort] an [whisr/e] sh'-nan- An [snort] an [whistle] sh'-nan-
nigo Dan, nigo Dan,
Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man. Oh! my daddy's a bonny wee man.
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1 Put your right hand in, 3 Put your both hands in,
Put your right hand out, Put your both hands out,
Put your right hand in, Put your both hands in,
And you wiggle it all about, And you wiggle them all about, [etc.]
Now you do the coca-cola,
Then you do the pepsi-cola, 4 Put your head in, [eta.]
Now you do the dipsycola
And you turn yourself about. 5 Put your right foot in, [etc]
2 Put your left hand in, 6 Put your left foot in, [efc]
Put your left hand out,
Put your left hand in, 7 Put your both feet in, [efc]
And you wiggle it all about,
Now you do the coca-cola, 8 Put your right hip in, [etc.]
Then you do the pepsi-cola,
Now you do the dipsycola 9 Put your left hip in, [efc.]
And you turn yourself about.
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1 Lost my partner, what'll I do? 10 Hurry up, slowpoke, be ahead of you,
Lost my partner, what'll I do? Hurry up, slowpoke, be ahead of you,
Lost my partner, what'll I do? Hurry up, slowpoke, be ahead of you,
Skip to my lou, my darling. Skip to my lou, my darling.
2 I'll find another one prettier than you, 11 When I go a-courtin', I'll take two,
I'll find another one prettier than you, When I go a-courtin', I'll take two,
I'll find another one prettier than you, When I go a-courtin', I'll take two,
Skip to my lou, my darling. Skip to my lou, my darling.
3 Gone again, skip to my lou, 12 Kitten's in the haymow, mew, mew, mew,
Gone again, skip to my lou, Kitten's in the haymow, mew, mew, mew,
Gone again, skip to my lou, Kitten's in the haymow, mew, mew, mew,
Skip to my lou, my darling. Skip to my lou, my darling.
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In the field, in frost and snow, , In the field, near ponds and lakes,
In the field so early, In the field so early,
There we go to milk the cows, There we watch the ducks and
There we milk them cheerily drakes,
With a moo moo here, a moo moo There we watch them cheerily
there, With a quackapack here, a quacka-
Here a moo, there a moo, every- pack there,
where a moo moo, Here a quack, there a quack,
Bonnie lassie, come along with me everywhere a quackapack,
In the field so early. Chickachick here, a chickachick
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In the field, all near the fence, Here a chick, there a chick, every-
In the field so early, where a chickachick,
There we go to ruffle the hens, Cluckachuck here, a cluckachuck
There we ruffle them cheerily there,
With a cluckachuck here, a clucka- Here a chuck, there a chuck,
chuck there, everywhere a cluckachuck,
Here a chuck, there a chuck, Moo moo here, a moo moo there,
everywhere a cluckachuck, Here a moo, there a moo, every-
Moo moo here, a moo moo there, where a moo moo,
Here a moo, there a moo, every- Bonnie lassie, come along with me
where a moo moo, In the field so early.
Bonnie lassie, come along with me
In the field so early. In the field, hard by the rocks,
In the field so early,
In the field, along the creek, There we cram the turkey cocks,
In the field so early, There we cram them cheerily
There we go to feed the chicks, With a gibble gobble here, a gibble
There we feed them cheerily gobble there,
With a chickachick here, a chicka- Here a gobble, there a gobble,
chick there, everywhere a gibble gobble,
Here a chick, there a chick, every- Quackapack here, a quackapack
where a chickachick, there. . . [etc.]
Cluckachuck here, a cluckachuck Bonnie lassie, come along with me
there, In the field so early.
Here a chuck, there a chuck,
everywhere a cluckachuck,
Moo moo here, a moo moo there,
Here a moo, there a moo, every-
where a moo moo,
Bonnie lassie, come along with me
In the field so early.
In the field, down near the bogs, 10 In the field, when it's hardly light,
In the field so early, In the field so early,
There we go to stuff the hogs, There we meet our heart's delight,
There we stuff them cheerily There we meet so cheerily
With a groink oink here, a groink With a kiss a miss here, a kiss a
oink there, miss there,
Here a groink, there a groink, Here a kiss, there a kiss, every-
everywhere a groink oink, where a kiss a miss,
Meah meah here, a meah meah Rattle ping here, a rattle ping
there. [efc]
. . there [efc]
. . .
Bonnie lassie, come along with me Bonnie lassie, come along with me
In the field so early. In the field so early.
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Heave away, heave away,
Heave away and don't you make a noise,
We are bound for Australia.
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The Swapping Song New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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And all the bread and cheese I got, And in that trade I was just learn-
I laid up on the shelf. ing how. [Refrain]
3 The streets weren't wide, and the I fed him and I pet him, but he
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And when they were down, they were down, He had ten thousand men,
But when they were only halfway up, He marched them up to the top of the hill,
They were neither up nor down. And he marched them down again.
3 Now if he were only a rocket, 6 And when they were up, they were up,
He'd search this wide world o'er; And when they were down, they were down,
If his true love weren't on board the ship, But when they were only halfway up,
He'd swing her on the floor. They were neither up nor down.
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1 All I want in this creation,
Pretty little wife with a big plantation.
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Hey, pretty little Black-eyed Susie,
Hey, pretty little Black-eyed Susie,
Hey, pretty little Black-eyed Susie,
Hey!
9 Jump up, kitty puss, jump up higher, 14 Tell that Susie she'd better get away,
Jump up, puss, your tail's on fire. Listen, honey, it's almost day.
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My Sairy Ann is the girl I love, Refrain:
She's the sweetest ever seen; To my row, row, row, to my row, row, row
Her torso measures four feet square, By the light of the silvery moon, so soon,
She is my lissome queen; To my row, row, row, to my row, row, row
She flails her kneecaps all about By the light of the silvery moon.
When her elbows come untied;
Her shoulders are built in the There's a mildew scent about her head,
stairway style, Her face is close to her nose;
Just seventeen inches wide. She has a silk and watery skin,
And feet attached to her toes;
She sports no waist around her belt,
No fingers on her rings;
Her voice is barely forty power,
And her age so gaily sings. [Refrain]
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The monkey thought 'twas all in fun:
Pop goes the weasel.
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A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle,
That's where all the money goes:
Pop goes the weasel.
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A capital ship for an ocean trip 3 The captain sat on the commodore's
Was the "Walloping Window Blind." hat
No wind that blew dismayed her As he dined in a royal way
crew, On toasted pigs, and pickles, and
Or troubled the captain's mind. figs,
The man at the wheel was made to And gunnery bread each day.
feel The cook was Dutch, and behaved
Contempt for the wildest blow-i-oh, as such,
Though it often appeared, when the For the diet he served the crew-i-
gale had cleared, yew
That he'd been in his bunk below. Was number of tons of hot-cross
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So blow ye winds, hi-oh, [Refrain]
A- sailing I will go;
I'll stay no more on England's 4 We soon fell ill, as mariners will
shore, On a diet so rare and rude.
So let the music play-i-ay; We shivered and shook as we dipped
I'm off on the morning train the cook
To cross the raging main: In a tub of hisgloomeous food.
I'm off to my love with a boxing But nautical pride we laid aside
glove When we ran our ship ashore-i-yore
Ten thousand miles away. On the Gulliby Isles, where the
Poopoo smiles
The bos'n's mate was very sedate, And the rubbidy ubdugs roar.
Yet fond of amusement, too. [Refrain]
He played Hop- Scotch with the
starboard watch,
While the bos'n tickled the crew.
The gunner we had was apparently
mad,
For he sat on the after ray- i- ail
And fired salutes with the captain's
boots
In the teeth of a boomly gale.
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With a Mary, Sary, a diddle and a bink
With a jary fiddle-um tweedle.
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Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark,
Fare thee well and gone;
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark,
Goodbye, Betsy Brown.
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Did you ever see a beezer, Did you ever see a pinkin',
A beezer, a beezer, A pinkin', a pinkin',
Did you ever see a beezer? Did you ever see a pinkin'?
I'll tell you what to do: I'll tell you what to do:
Did you ever see a doozer, Did you ever see a lassie,
A doozer, a doozer, A lassie, a lassie,
Did you ever see a doozer? Did you ever see a lassie?
I'll tell you what to do: I'll tell you what to do:
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Run along now, don't come nigh me,
I'm high as a kite, you'll have to fly me,
Can't keep still:
Frisky Jim, just taking it easy,
Frisky Jim, just making it breezy,
Call me Frisky Jim.
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Blow The Wind Southerly New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CA2DEN
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The hardest work I ever did The hardest work I ever did
Was courting Susan Jane. Was courting Susan Jane.
Are the lips around her mouth. 'Cause I'm too wide awake.
Oh, Molly, Oh, Emma,
Why be so melancholy? You've set me a dilemma,
The hardest work I ever. did The hardest work I ever did
Was courting Susan Jane Was courting Susan Jane.
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And any of you, if you'd been there, would've seen as well as I.
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Doddy dinktum, dolly, dolly dinktum a loddy,
Doddy dinktum, a dolly, dolly dinktum, a day.
For they would not trust me to a bed, because I was so poor. [Refrain]
6 And then I bought a flock of sheep, the most of them were wethers,
And some will yield me fine wool, and some will yield me feathers,
And they are handsome, grateful sheep, all ready to increase,
For every full and change of moon, they bear nine lambs apiece. [Refrain]
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Hello, Susie Brown.
History Of The World New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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But the carpenters were out on strike, the masons wouldn't work,
So the scabs dug a hole, and they filled it up with dirt.
2 When they finished with the firmament, they started on the sky,
And they hung it out overhead and left it there to dry;
They studded it with stars made out of pretty damsel's eyes
For to give us a little light when the moon forgot to rise.
3 Then they salted down the ocean, and in it they put a whale,
On the land they made a raccoon with a ring around his tale;
Then all the other animals were finished, one by one,
They were stuck against a fence to dry as soon as they were done.
4 Now Adam was the first man that ever was invented,
He lived all alone, so he hardly was contented;
They made him out of clay and stuff, and thought he could get by,
For that's the way they scraped along in all the days gone by.
6 Then the wind began to blow and the rain began to fall,
And the water soon came up so high, it drowned the people all;
Then it rained for forty days and nights exactly, by the counting,
Till it landed Noah's ark upon the Allegheny Mountains.
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My very first job, I remember it yet, 5 A man parked his Cadillac near me
I was sent to the post office, one day;
letters to get. "Keep an eye on it, you'll get a
"What name?" said the clerk; I dollar for pay."
looked him in the eye: But he never paid me, for a
"That's none of your business, you stranger came by,
nosy!" says I. Though I kept my eye on it while
he drove it away.
Handy Andy they called me, I never
knew why; 6 I was reading the paper in the
I went out to deliver for a dairy subway last night,
nearby. It didn't make sense when I held it
"Put the milk in the wagon; why upright,
are you so slow?" So I it upsy-versy; a feller
tried
"It takes time to pour it from the asked, "Why?"
bottles, you know!" "Maybe you think it's easy to read
this way," says I.
One morning there lay about two
feet of snow;
Says my foreman, "Just clear off
the pavement for now."
I rigged up the snow plow and
cleared it complete,
Put the snow and the pavement all
out in the street.
The Red Herring New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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Buckeye Jim, you can't go,
Go weave and spin, you can't go,
Buckeye Jim.
Captain Jinks New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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I'm Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,
Ifeed my horse good corn and beans;
Of course it's quite beyond my means,
But I'm the pride of the army.
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Gome Farm New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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So pay your dollar fifty
When the billboards are so nifty;
You will learn so much about a touch
At the game farm on the road.
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1 I wish I were a rhi-nos-so-rhee-a- 3 I wish I were a hip-po-dot-ty-muss,
guss, [3 times]
I wish I were a rhi-nos-so-rhee-a- And could eat up all the lily pads
guss, in the suburbs, Hallelujah,
I wish I were a rhi-nos-so-rhee-a- And could eat up all the lily pads
guss, in the suburbs.
And could wear an ivory toothpick
in my nose, Hallelujah, 4 I wish I were a dil-ly-bil-ly roach,
And could wear an ivory toothpick [3 times]
in my nose. And could wander around in these
old musty pipes, Hallelujah,
2 I wish I were an el-phan-tie-a-guss, And could wander around in these
I wish I were an el-phan-tie-a-guss, old musty pipes.
I wish I were an el-phan-tie-a-guss,
And could pick up footballs when 5 I wish I were a bee-tle-ol-ly bug,
my nostrils twitched, [3 times]
Hallelujah, And could buzz and butt my head
And could pick up footballs when right through the screen,
my nostrils twitched. Hallelujah,
And could buzz and butt my head
right through the screen.
1 Once we rode out a-hunting, the 5 Again we went a-hunting, the next
first thing we did find thing we did find
Was a chestnut burr upon the grass, Was a frog in the pond, and that
and that we left behind, we left behind,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
One said it was a chestnut burr, One said it was a frog, but the
the other did say nay, other did say nay,
I saw it was a pin-cushion with
I saw it was a canary with its
the pins the wrong way, feathers plucked away,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
2 Again we went a-hunting, the next 6 Again we went a-hunting, the next
thing we did find thing we did find
Was a barn up on a hillside, and Was a horse in the field, and that
that we left behind, we left behind,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
One said it was a barn, but the One said it was a horse, but the
other did say nay, other did say nay,
I saw it was a meeting house with I saw it was a moose with its
the steeple blown away, antlers gone astray,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
3 Again we went a-hunting, the next 7. Again we went a-hunting, the next
thing we did find thing we did find
Was the moon up in the sky, and Was a sailing ship close on the shore,
that we left behind, and that we left behind,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
One said it was the moon, but the One said it was a sailing ship, the
other did say nay, other did say nay,
I saw it was a Yankee cheese with I saw it was a washtub with the
one half cut away, clothes hung out to dry,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
4 Again we went a-hunting, the next 8 Again we went a-hunting, the next
thing we did find thing we did find
Was a donkey at the roadside, and Was a basketball down in the ditch,
that we left behind, and that we left behind,
Looky there now. Looky there now.
One said it was a donkey, the One said it was a basketball, the
other did say nay, other did say nay,
saw it was an elephant with his
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Looky there now. Looky there now.
The Long Tail Blue New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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And his daughter, Clementine.
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Oh, my darling, oh, my darling,
Oh, my darling Clementine,
You are lost and gone forever,
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
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And they did as they useter since 2 Oh, Ihad a little chicken, and she
the Lord knows when. wouldn't lay an egg,
So I poured hot water up and down
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her leg.
Turkey in the straw, turkey in Didn't the little chicken cry and the
the hay, little chicken beg!
Just dance all the night and But that little chicken laid a hard-
sing all the day, boiled egg.
We'll roll 'em up and twist 'em Oh, I had a red hen, and she had a
up a high tuckahaw, wooden leg,
And we'll strike 'em up a tune Just the best old hen that ever laid
called Turkey in the Straw. an egg;
Why, she laid more eggs than any
hen on the farm,
And another wooden leg wooden do
her any harm. [Refrain]
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Bos'n John, and are you gone away,
Oh Johnny, are you there?
Bos'n John, and are you gone away,
For I've begun to care.
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1 It was midnight on the ocean,
Not a trolley car in sight,
And the sun was shining brightly
As it day that night.
rained all
Now some people dive down deep
To play among the flowers
While the sprightly pigs and sportive cows
Leap lightly through the bowers.
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Wait for the wagon,
Wait for the wagon,
Wait for the wagon,
And we'll all take a ride.
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foller you,
And I am very certain to collar you;
Then it won't matter how much you
holler,
You'll be somewhat bruised by the
time I swaller you!"
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scary 'un,
Hardly well-bred, and most vul-
garian,
Set out to win this fair Bulgarian.
[Refrain]
Haul Away, Joe New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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1 Old Dan Tucker was a mighty' man, 4 Old Dan Tucker came to town
He washed his face in a frying pan, Riding a billy goat and leading a
He combed his hair with a wagon hound;
wheel The hound, he barked, and the billy
And he died with a toothache in his goat jumped,
heel. And throwed old Dan right straddle
of a stump. [Refrain]
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So get out the way, Old Dan 5 Old Dan Tucker climbed a tree
Tucker, His Lord and Master for to see:
You're too late to come to The limb, it broke, and Dan got a
supper; fall,
2 Old Dan Tucker is a nice old man, A lizard catched him by the snout,
He used to ride our darby ram; Called Old Dan Tucker for to pull
He rode him down to the bottom of him out. [Refrain]
the hill,
If he hasn't come back, he's down 7 Old Dan Tucker went to run his
there still. [Refrain] horse,
He couldn't reach his legs across,
3 Old Dan Tucker, he got drunk, So he lay right over like a bag of
Fell in the fire and kicked up a meal
chunk; And he spurred that horse with his
A red hot coal got in his shoe, big toenail. [Refrain]
And oh, Lordy, how those ashes
flew. [Refrain]
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Blow, ye winds of morning,
Blow, ye winds, eye-O.
Blow, ye winds of morning,
Blow, blow, blow.
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For a couple of million years,
I will tell you of a girl
Jim Along Jo New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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Hey jim along, jim along, Josey,
Hey jim along, jim along, Jo;
Hey jim along, jim along, Josey,
Catch that pretty girl, jim along, Jo.
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To slay-o-slee the wild codfish and the bass mackerel;
But when he arrove off Glorrister, the Nor'easter began to blow,
And hislittle boat, it wibble-wobbled so, slick overboard he fell
'Mong the Conger eels, and the Dover soles,
And the whitebait, and the blackbait,
And the kippered herrings, and the 'mato herrings,
And the ticklebats, and the bricklebats:
Dinkle doodle-um, dinkle doodle-um was the highly interesting song he sung;
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1 The horsey stood around with his feet upon the ground;
So why do they build the shore so near the ocean, my dove?
Just hand me the axe, there's a fly on baby's chest,
For a boy's best friend is his mother, my dove.
3 She's the girl that I adore, with a face like a horse and buggy;
The onion is a sprightly vegetable, my dove;
Now who cut the sleeves out of dear old daddy's vest
And dug up Fido's bones to build the subway, my dove?
5 She spanked him with a shingle and made his panties tingle;
Who was it made the moonlight feel so sunny, my dove?
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With a row de dow and a bow de dow, why do you say it's a lie?
2 One day he swam from Chesapeake Bay to the top of the Oregon Trail
With seven ensigns on his back and one manicuring his nails;
He met a shark in South Dakota, and bunged up his left eye:
That's Dunfer wearing the sharkskin, now why do you say it's a lie? [Refrain]
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And I couldn't send it with the mail for fear it wouldn't reach in time,
So I skipped across the gutter on the Knickerbocker Line.
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And the rig, jig, the rig, jig, jig,
Go a-skinny-me-dig, a honey dew, a 'bye away to me, do,
D'ye go away to my honey dew and never will come back,
It's a weary road to travel and the car jumped the track.
Oh, there I saw the prettiest girl that ever has been seen,
And she took the humper-bumper from the Jersey Cow machine. [Refrain]
4 Ifyou want to see this pretty girl, you want to go down Broadway,
For she promenades the Bowery from eight to ten each day,
But if anyone should tease her a little before the time,
She's a regular skip- the- gutter for the Knickerbocker Line. [Refrain]
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There's one more river to cross. arrive,
There's one more river to cross.
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One more river,
And that's the river of Jordan, 8 The animals went in six by six,
One more river, There's one more river to cross,
There's one more river to cross. The monkey was up to his usual
tricks,
2 Old Noah had to load his stock, There's one more river to cross.
There's one more river to cross, [Refrain]
So he anchored to a mighty rock,
There's one more river to cross. 9 The animals went in seven by
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There's one more river to cross,
3 The animals went in one by one, Said the ant to the antelope, who
There's one more river to cross, are you shovin'?
The elephant chewing a caraway There's one more river to cross.
bun, [Refrain]
There's one more river to cross.
[Refrain] 10 The animals went in eight by eight,
There's one more river to cross,
4 The animals went in two by two, Some were early and some were
There's one more river to cross, late,
The crocodile and the kangaroo, There's one more river to cross.
There's one more river to cross. [Refrain]
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11 The animals went in nine by nine,
5 The animals went in three by three, There's one more river to cross,
There's one more river to cross, Old Noah shouted, cast off that
The bat, the bear and the bumble- line!
bee, There's one more river to cross.
There's one more river to cross. [Refrain]
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12 The animals went in ten by ten,
6 The animals went in four by four, There's one more river to cross,
There's one more river to cross, If you want any more, you must
And one hippopotamus stuck in the sing it again,
door, There's one more river to cross.
There's one more river to cross. [Refrain]
[Refrain]
Johnny Booker New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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1 As I was walking 'long the road 3 The other day I said hello,
With a tired feeling and a heavy Went out with Sue for the corn to
load, hoe;
The tadpole winked at the polli- We hoed it down with toe and heel
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Till the ground was so hard, it
And kicked the bullfrog plump in wouldn't peel. [Refrain]
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4 I went to the woods to split some
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And it's ooh, Johnny Booker, I To make a stone fence up on the
do, I do, hill;
It's ooh, Johnny Booker, I do. Ifound a rattler under a log,
So I split it up into live bullfrogs.
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He brushed me off on a buttonwood
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back. [Refrain]
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He grew whiskers on his chinnigin,
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Oh, Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight,
Come out tonight, won't you come out tonight,
Oh, Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight
And dance by the light of the moon.
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1 Now don't you see that pretty little girl, 5 I took that girl out Saturoddy night,
And don't you think she's nice? And I told her to keep cool:
Well, don't you think that she and I Of course I'd like to kiss you here,
Might marry once or twice? Do you take me for a fool? [Refrain]
And her eyes a diamond brown: But you get there before I do,
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I'm going to see that pretty little girl Just leave my girl alone! [Refrain]
Before that sun goes down. [Refrain]
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4 My true love is a pretty little girl, And she came down the side;
My true love, she is young, I flipped my hat to a telephone pole
My true love has such a tenderizing look So down that cable I'd ride. [Refrain]
When she doesn't bite her tongue. [Refrain]
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Stood up on its legs and walked out
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1 Oh, my name is Samuel Hall, 5 Oh, the sheriff, he came too,
Samuel Hall, he came too,
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Oh, my name is Samuel Hall, and I Oh, the sheriff, he came too, with
hate you, one and all, his little boys in blue,
You're a bunch of muckers all, And I hope they sizzle too, damn
damn your eyes. their eyes!
2 Oh, I killed a man, 'tis said, so 6 To the gallows I must go, I must
'tis said, go,
Oh, I killed a man, 'tis said, so To the gallows I must go, I must
'tis said. go.
Oh, I killed a man, 'tis said, for I To the gallows I must go, with my
filled him up with lead friends there down below
And I left him there for dead, damn Saying, "Sam, I told ya so!" Damn
his eyes! their eyes!
3 Oh, they took me to the quod, to 7 I saw Nellie in the crowd, in the
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Oh, they took me to the quod, to I saw Nellie in the crowd, in the
the quod. crowd.
Oh, they took me to the quod, and I saw Nellie in the crowd, hope to
they left me there, by God, see her in a shroud,
With a ball and chain and rod, damn I yelled, "Nellie, ain't ya proud?"
their eyes. Damn her eyes!
4 Oh, the preacher, he did come, he 8 Now they ring the final bell, final
did come, bell,
Oh, the preacher, he did come, he Now they ring the final bell, final
did come. bell.
Oh, the preacher, he did come, and Now they ring the final bell, I will
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Singing tra la la la la,
Singing tra la la la, tra la la la,
Tra la la la la.
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sister, supper?
Smacked his lips and then he kissed Black-eyed peas with bread and
her, butter,
Kissed so hard, he raised a blister, Ducks in the pond caught all in a
She set up a yell. flutter,
The bridesmaid stuck on some court Pickled oyster stew,
plaster, Chestnuts raw and boiled and
Stuck so hard, it couldn't stick roasted,
faster. Apples sliced and onions toasted;
Wasn't that a sad disaster? Had two bands in the corner posted,
But it soon got well. Never got a cue.
2 What do you think the bride was 4 What do you think was the tune they
dressed in? danced to?
White gauze veil and a green glass Drunken Sailor more than once, too,
breast pin, Tails in the way, and some were
Red kid shoes, looked quite in- pinched, too,
teresting 'Cause they were too long.
She was quite the belle. What do you think they used for a
The bridegroom sported a blue shirt fiddle?
collar, Old banjo with a hole in the middle,
Black silk socks that cost a dollar, Tambourine and a worn-out griddle,
Large false whiskers, fashion to That's the end of the song.
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He cut a monstrous swell.
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Took all the boys and all the girls
To wrap around his tongue. [Re/rain]
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Now lookit here, and lookit there,
And look 'way over yonder,
And can't you see the old gray goose
A-smiling at the gander?
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Mary went, Mary went, Little lamb, little lamb,
Everywhere that Mary went, I've often seen her little lamb,
Hard trials and tribulations. But I've yet to see her bear.
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Oh, Johnny Graw from Chickawgaw,
Strangest fellow you ever saw,
Now come along, John, and
sing me a tune,
Won't ever get your day's work done.
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With a bow, wow wow, bow-wow, wow wow,
We'll all go out a-Maying with a whack! Row dee dow.
My eggs would set to boil for just two minutes and eighteen seconds,
And when I paid a fare, I'd want to know how it was reckoned. [Refrain]
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1 In Scarlett Town there lived a donkey, his maiden name was Pete;
He grew moss upon his back, but he was lightning on his feet;
One day he drank too many oysters, which made him cross and thin,
Till hisbones weighed seventeen ounces, counting the dew upon his shin.
3 That donkey named Pete kicked the bucket when the bucket was full of glue;
He rose high into his stockings when a spark fell in his shoe;
He couldn't run the terminal railroad, he ran it into the ground,
But after he ate the manganese, not much of Pete was found.
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He played knick knack on his thumb.
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Come a knick knack, Cadillac,
Give your dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.
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And her cheeks are made of chiner, There are hundreds in the cheese,
You may kiss her if you find her on You will bite them through their
the Jaycee Line. knees on the Jaycee Line,
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rig-a-jag-a-jig, Jaycee Line,
Come a rig-a-jag-a-jigger on Once we made a clammy pie on the
the Jaycee Line. Jaycee Line.
Once we made a clammy pie,
And the crust rose to the sky,
But itisn't safe to fly on the
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I thought to my soul I would kill You can't fool Sally with the lies
myself a-running, you're tossin',
I looked down the road and I saw You can't fool a bee on a huckle-
my Sally coming, berry blossom,
I thought to my soul I would kill You can't fool Sally with the lies
myself a-running. you're tossin'. [Refrain]
Don't Stub Your Toe On Friday New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZOEN
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And when he ran, he couldn't stand still, To hunt for several kinds of deer
Ran away for a day, that Friday I With molasses, with a tight- rope,
ran with him. and several other fellers.
He he could not stop
ran so fast, At trapping birds I am a beaut,
Till he ended up in a florist shop, There is no bird I cannot shoot
Fell exhaustionated with his eyeteeth In the haunches, in the ear-lobes,
in the florister's left shoulder. in the teeth or lower finners.
Don't stub your toe on Friday, Don't stub your toe on Friday,
Don't stub your toe on Friday, Don't stub your toe on Friday,
Don't stub your toe on Friday, Don't stub your toe on Friday,
It's green, it's square, and it's Those skates for plates, they make
chewing on the apples. me feel so sleepy.
Ionce had a girl, her name was Daisy, Once I went up in a fog so big,
When she sang, the cat went crazy, The people on earth looked just
Delirious with viruses and all sorts like a pig,
of cataleptics. Like a mice, like a katydid, like
One day she sang that song about flyses or like fleasens.
The man who turned himself inside out, The fog churned up with its bottom
He's never been to Watertown or side higher,
lots of other places. Fell on the wife of a country squire,
Don't stub your toe on Friday, She made a noise like a crankcase
Don't stub your toe on Friday, with ecstatic cherry syrup.
Don't stub your toe on Friday, Don't stub your toe on Friday,
Look here, it's queer, that leaky Don't stub your toe on Friday,
patch in the icebox. Don't stub your toe on Friday,
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"Oh, Captain Smith," the ghost replied, "You've used me ungenteely,
The coroner's quest goes hard with me, because I've acted frailly,
And Parson Briggs won't bury me, though I'm a dead Miss Bailey."
Oh, Miss Bailey, unfortunate Miss Bailey.
"Dear ghost," said he, "since you and I accounts must once for all close,
There one-pound note in my regimental small-clothes,
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'Twill bribe the sexton for your grave." The ghost then vanished gaily,
Saying, "Bless you, wicked Captain Smith! Remember poor Miss Bailey! "
Oh, Miss Bailey, unfortunate Miss Bailey.
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Sailing east, sailing west,
Sailing over the ocean,
You'd better watch out when
the boat begins to rock,
Or you'll lose your girl in the
ocean.
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And on his hip sat a hump-backed toad,
He raised his voice to the woods around,
And hark! From the tomb came a doleful sound.
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So clear the kitchen, old folks, young folks,
Clear the kitchen, old folks, young folks,
Old Virginny never tire.
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soul, soul,
And a merry old soul was he; And a merry old soul was he;
He sent for his pipe and he sent for He sent for his pipe and he sent for
his bowl, his bowl,
And he sent for his fiddlers three. And he sent for his trumpeters three.
And the fiddlers fiddled feedledee And the trumpeters trumped a
and tweedle, tweedle, trumpatata tada tada tada
tweedle, tada trumpa,
And the fiddlers fiddled tweedle And the trumpeters trumped a trumpa
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deedle tweedle, feedle tada tada tada tada trumpa,
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Now Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
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And a merry old soul was he; He sent for his pipe and he sent for
He sent for his pipe and he sent for his bowl,
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And he sent for his fifers three. 'And the drummers drummed a bump
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toodle, toodle, toodle, pom pom bump ditty,
And the fifers fifed a fyodle toodle And the drummers drummed a bump
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Fyodle fyodle, toodle toodle, toodle Bump ditty, bump ditty, pom pom
toodle, fyodle fyodle, pom pom, ditty bump pom pom
Fyodle toodle fifed the fifers three. pom ditty bump pom,
Bumpaditty pom pom drummed the
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Now Old King Cole was a merry old 7 Now Old King Cole was a merry old
soul, soul,
And a merry old soul was he; And a merry old soul was he;
He sent for his pipe and he sent for He sent for his pipe and he sent for
his bowl, his bowl,
And he sent for his clarinets three. And he sent for his mandolins
And the clarinets mewled a noodle three.
noodle, oodle, oodle, oodle, And the mandolins picked a picka-
And the clarinets mewled a noodle tickle, eedlelicka needle-
oodle-iddle lee, licka pickatickle,
Noodle noodle, oodle-iddle oodle, And the mandolins picked a picka-
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Noodle-iddle oodle mewled the needlelicka, peedlelicka
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And a merry old soul was he;
He sent for his pipe and he sent for 8 Now Old King Cole was a merry old
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And he sent for his tromboners And a merry old soul was he;
three. He sent for his pipe and he sent for
And the tromboners toned a tome- his bowl,
bada dome dome, bomebada And he sent for his 'cellos three.
bomebada borne borne, And the 'cellos zoomed a zoozee
And the tromboners toned a tome- nigha, zwigha, zwigha nigha,
bada borne borne bee, And the 'cellos zoomed a woozee
Tomebada tomebada, borne borne nigha zee,
bomebada, bomebada tome- With a pizzicato zoozee nigha,
bada dome dome domebada, zwigha, zwigha, woozee,
Bomebada domebada toned the Nigha zwigha zoomed the 'cellos
tromboners three. three.
. . . clarinets mewled. . .
. . . tromboners toned. . .
. . . mandolins picked. . .
. . . 'cellos zoomed. . . ]
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Jenny Jenkins New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CA2DEN
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1 Oh, will you wear red, Oh my dear, 5 Oh, will you wear purple, Oh my
Oh my dear, dear, Oh my dear,
Oh, will you wear red, Jennie Oh, will you wear purple, Jennie
Jenkins? Jenkins?
No, I won't wear red, it's a color I No, I won't wear purple, it's the
dread. the color of a turkle.
[Refrain]
Refrain:
I'llbuy me a foldy-roldy tildy- 6 Oh, will you wear brown, Oh my
toldy seek-a-cause-a dear, Oh my dear,
Use-a-double roll-the-find-me! Oh, will you wear brown, Jennie
Roll, Jennie Jenkins, roll! Jenkins?
No, I won't wear brown when I'm
2 Oh, will you wear white, Oh my going downtown. [Refrain]
dear, Oh my dear,
Oh, will you wear white, Jennie 7 Oh, will you wear blue, Oh my
Jenkins? dear, Oh my dear,
No, I won't wear white, for the Oh, will you wear blue, Jennie
color's too bright. [Re/rain] Jenkins?
No, I won't wear blue, for it
3 Oh, will you wear black, Oh my wouldn't match you.
dear, Oh my dear, [Refrain]
Oh, will you wear black, Jennie
Jenkins? 8 Oh, will you wear pink, Oh my
No, I won't wear black, it's a dear, Oh my dear,
color I lack. [Refrain] Oh, will you wear pink, Jennie
Jenkins?
4 Oh, will you wear green, Oh my No, I won't wear pink, for what
dear, Oh my dear, will people think? [Refrain]
Oh, will you wear green, Jennie
Jenkins? 9 Oh, will you wear yellow, Oh my
No, I won't wear green, it's a dear, Oh my dear,
shame to be seen. Oh, will you wear yellow, Jennie
[Refrain] Jenkins?
No, I won't wear yellow when I
want to catch a fellow.
[Refrain]
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The Flapjacks Tree New Words and New Music Arrangement by NORMAN CAZDEN
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1 Oh, the praties, they grow small
over there,
Yes, the praties, they grow small
over there.
Why, the praties, they grow small,
For we plant them in the fall,
Then we eat them, skins and all,
over there.
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