#24778
03/29/2001 11:32 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Oh, well, what the hell --
Whistle while you work
Hitler is a jerk
Mu-sso-li-ni
Bit his peenie
Now it doesn't squirt
-Binky
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#24779
03/29/2001 11:53 AM
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old hand
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Now you've gone too far, IP; I can hear the sirens approaching.
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#24780
03/29/2001 12:06 PM
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Just for the record, a google search gives authorship of Boa Constrictor by a majority vote to the Scouting Association of America. But for other Shel Silverstein verse see http:"//www.rpi.edu/~nicej/poetry/others/shel.html"
In line with the tone of this thread is:
The Dragon of Grindly Grun
I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun,
I breath fire as hot as the sun.
When a knight comes to fight
I just toast him on sight,
Like a hot crispy cinnamon bun.
When I see a fair damsel go by,
I just sigh a fiery sigh,
And she's baked like a 'tater-
I think of her later
With a romantic tear in my eye.
I'm the Dragon of Grindly Grun,
But my lunches aren't very much fun,
For I like my damsels medium rare,
And they always come out well done.
Rod Ward
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#24781
03/29/2001 2:22 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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<<Now you've gone too far, IP; I can hear the sirens approaching.>>
And at the first hint of political commentary... "From the mouths of babes..."
Binky
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#24782
03/29/2001 4:49 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Too bad I can't remember much of the parodies in book I had a long time ago.
Twas midnight on the ocean
Not a streetcar was in sight
And that was hardly odd, because....
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#24783
03/29/2001 4:50 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"Can't we all just get a song"
BYOB
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#24784
03/29/2001 5:24 PM
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Dr. Bill, sounds like a varient on:
One dark morning, in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf police man heard the noise,
and came to rescue the two dead boys
If you don't believe my story, ask the blind man,
he saw it all!
(there are many varients of this-- this is the one i know)
other common song in this style is Old Susanna!
In rained all night, the day i left,
the weather it was dry,
the sun, so hot, i froze to death.
Susanna, don't you cry!
I have a book of childrens poetry that states this type of parody is especially American.. is it right?
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#24785
03/30/2001 8:48 AM
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this kind of parody is American
Maybe USA has got it down to a fine art, but UK kids (well OK me a looong time ago) are exposed to this style of parody. I don't know (haven't the reference to hand, prob from Penguin Anthology of Comic and Curious Verse) the source of this one in similar vein:
Yesterday*, while going up the stair.
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away.
*Doesn't scan to me, could be "Last Week"?
Spike Milligan has some delightful Children's verse, such as:
There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in,
but they're ever so small, that's why rain's so thin.
Rod Ward
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#24786
03/30/2001 11:44 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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<<Yesterday*, while going up the stair.>>
See, -now that's really the only really clever one so far. As to scan, how about "Once, while going..."
But, as long as we're on not-so-very clever ones, I can throw in another (surprise!)
Mary loves to skate
When the wind is cold and brisk
Mary is a little fool
her little asterisk
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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#24787
03/30/2001 1:51 PM
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A capital ship
For an ocean trip
Was the Walloping
Windowblind.
No wind that blew
Dismayed her crew,
Or troubled the
Cptain's mind.
The man at the wheel
Was made to feel
Contempt for wildest
Blow, Oh, Oh, Oh
Though it often appeared
When the gale had cleared
That he'd been in his bunk below.
Anybody remember the other verses?
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#24788
03/30/2001 1:55 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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<<know the verses>>
No, but did Gilbert and Sullivan borrows from this ditty?
"..And when the breezes blow
I generally go below.."
--Captain of the HMS Pinafore
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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#24789
03/30/2001 3:12 PM
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Capital Ship : Walloping Window Blind
The chorus sung between verses :
Heigh ho my lads Heigh Ho
A roving we will go.
We'll stay no more on England's shore
So let the breezes blow-ow-ow.
We're off on the bounding main .......??????
And dammitall I can't remember the rest of the lyrics but do remember some were quite naughty.
I used to know several verses --in those dear days long ago -- as did my sons and we sang it on car trips!
Oh, SOMEBODY please post it.
Tsuwm ... a challenge for your Post-A-Day ?
Read somewhere that there was a Widow Woman who kept track of a handsome Captain through her window which faced the pier and when the Captain glanced her way the Widow Woman would slam (whallop) the blind thus giving herself away.... and spawning a nautical ditty.
wow
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#24790
03/30/2001 3:32 PM
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>walloping window blind ann (and bill), this is the best I could come up with. there is an email address at the bottom, and I'll bet you could write to Mr. Glover and get more.... http://www.hamiltonet.com/4546.htmthe line "...he'd been in his bunk below" does make it look like there's a connection with G&S. and jackie, the minimum daily requirement is looking like the maximum too.
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#24791
03/30/2001 4:04 PM
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Thank you, tsuwm ... I read the whole piece and found it delightful.
It started with the opening for WWB and gave the *real* chorus which my memory had outrageously scrambled. Herewith the correct chorus as copied from the column:
So blow, ye winds Hi Ho! a roving we will go,
I'll sail no more from England's shore, So let the music play-ay-ay.
I'm off on the morning train, I'll cross the raging main,
I'm off to me love with a boxing glove, ten thousand miles away.."
I did send a note off via Email to Mr. Glover and perhaps we may yet get more verses.
Hope springs eternal
wow
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#24792
03/30/2001 4:14 PM
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When I put the Walloping Window Blind into my "Songs" folder, I found this one (copied as I found it):
My Uncle Charles McDermott (1st Photo squadron) sent this parody of the U.S. Army Air Corps anthem to my Mother and Dad in 1942.
Sung to tune of the real AAC anthem "The wild blue yonder"
Off we go into the file drawer yonder
Diving deep into the drawer,
Here it is, buried away down under
The gol dern thing the brass was searching for.
Off we go into the CO's office
Where we get one hellava roar
We live in miles of paper files. OH!
Nothing can stop the Army File Corps.
wow
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#24793
03/30/2001 6:27 PM
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How about some verses to
Mademoiselle from Armentiers, parlez vous
Hasn't been kissed in forty years....
We used to sing it while marching, and make up parodies as we went:
They say this is a mechanized war, parlez vous
So what the hell are we marching for?....
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#24794
03/30/2001 6:54 PM
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Thanks Rod-- I know it as "Last night upon the stair" for the first line,
and "I wish, I wish he'd go away"
which scans fine. (and i thought it was too much fun for only american kids to have discovered)
do we have any former girls scouts? I don't remember the song about the rooster--only the idea of it
Its about the wonderful rooster--
who gets into the garden and everything starts coming up eggplants--
and he corners the farmers wife, and after that she only has eggheads--?
there are about six or seven verses
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#24795
03/31/2001 11:04 PM
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Tsuwm reminded me of an old parody:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall
I shall never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash?)
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#24796
04/01/2001 9:08 PM
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enthusiast
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In reply to:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Perhaps unless the billboards fall
I shall never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash?)
Yes, that is Ogden Nash. I've seen it somewhere in the "the face is familiar" anthology.
jimthedog
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#24797
04/01/2001 9:16 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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On the beach you nubile walk mid the billowing, seagull squawk! You, the constant of my thought, Could your latex lips but talk! [BF Goodrich?] 
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#24798
04/01/2001 9:29 PM
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From:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
To:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,
Flying 'round and 'round my hat.
Up above the trees so high,
Like a tea tray in the sky.
wow
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#24799
04/02/2001 1:54 AM
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Twinkle, twinkle, AWADtalk;
Word lovers who like to balk
At yarts and being called ayleurs;
That thing wasn't mine, it's yours;
Twinkle, twinkle, words alight,
Sending auras day and night.
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#24800
04/02/2001 2:17 AM
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"who like to balk" - speak for yourself, kemosabe, I LIKE Ayleur! 
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#24801
04/02/2001 10:49 AM
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speak for yourself, kemosabe, I LIKE Ayleur!Have some raspberries then, "Dear"!  
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#24802
04/02/2001 2:24 PM
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"who like to balk"
Did you hear the one about the guy who got expelled from the nudist colony, because when playing leapfrog, he kept balking?
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