Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

[lumberjim]

This one was great

[Trilby]

I was leery about clicking on the above anonymous link. I was certain it was gonna be the Banana Phone song.

[Cicero]

I think it's a RR...not doing it.

[Sundae]

This will only resonate with Brits of a certain age!

Spitting Image's I've Never Met a Nice South African
('80s satirical song)

Which I now find has been given a new animation on youtube!

for the record, it misses out the last verse which should go
"Cos we've never met one either
Except for Breyten Breytenbach and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)
Yes he's quite a nice South African
And he's hardly ever killed anyone
And he's not smelly at all
That's why they put him prison"

Havin mentioned the above, I have to mention what to me is the ultimate ear-worm - The Chicken Song.
Released as a double B side with the above.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor of Red Dwarf renown.

Mimics eurotrash vacation songs

[monster]

Spitting image was the dog's bollocks. I miss it.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Eh. Just "swallow it in spite."

[Cloud]

The one I wish I could remember starts with:

"Oh the Cannibal King with the big brass ring . . . "

but that's all I can remember.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Google wasn't your friend today, Cloud?

We actually sing the first one every now and then. I think it was popular on College Campuses in the 40's, 50's.


UNDER THE BAMBOO TREE
aka THE CANNIBAL KING

Oh, the cannibal king
With the big nose ring
Fell in love with a dusky maid
And every night in the pale moon light
Across the bay he sail
He hugged and kiss his pretty little miss
Under the bamboo tree
And every night
Under the pale moonlight
Sounded like this to me...

Bah ump, bah ump boom du di oddy eh
Bah ump, bah ump boom du di oddy eh

Oh, the cannibal king
With the big nose ring
Bought a ring for his dusky maid
And then that night
By the pale moonlight
Across the bay he sailed
He placed the band upon her hand
And promised he'd be true
And then that night
In the pale moonlight
They sat and pitched the woo

Oh, the cannibal king
Went out on a fling
Without his dusky maid
And then that night
By the pale moonlight
Across the bay she sailed
In her hand she carried a gun
The bullets made of lead
And then that night
By the pale moonlight
She went and shot him dead

Bah ump bang, bang bah ump bang bang
Bomm du di oddy eh
Bah ump, bang, bang bah ump bang, bang
Boom du di oddy eh

We'll build a bungalow
Big enough for two
Big enough for two my darling
Big enough for two
And when we marry
Happy we'll be
Under the bamboo tree.

If you be M-I-N-E mine
I'll be T-H-I-N-E thine
And I'll L-O-V-E love you
All the T-I-M-E time

You are the B-E-S-T best
Of all the R-E-S-T rest
And I'll L-O-V-E love you
All the T-I-M-E time

Just like a L-A-R-K lark
Out in the P-A-R-K park
I will K-I-S-S kiss you
In the D-A-R-K dark

You are the B-E-S-T best
Of all the R-E-S-T rest
And I'll L-O-V-E love you
All the T-I-M-E time.

From Mudcat.org -- they tend to be a deep resource for this sort of thing. I've never heard the thing, but they have a MIDI, I think.

[Cloud]

thank you UG. I've tried to google it before without success. I'm actually not positive that's the right one, but I guess it must be. I'll check out the mudcat site.

[Cloud]

How 'bout this one:

Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut last night. Last night I found a peanut, found a peanut last night.
Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it open last night Last night I cracked it open, cracked it open last night.
It was rotten, it was rotten, it was rotten last night, last night it was rotten, it was rotten last night.
Ate it anyway, ate it anyway, ate it anyway last night, last night I ate it anyway, ate it anyway last night.

repeat with other verses:

# Got a stomach ache"
# "Called the doctor"
# "Penicillin"
# "Didn't work"
# "Operation"
# "Died Anyway"
# "Went to Heaven"
# "Wouldn't take me "
# "Went the other way"
# "Didn't want me"
# "Woke up"
# "It was a dream"
# "Found a peanut" ...

[Shawnee123]

Funny, I started to sing that song last night. Homeless Guy was eating peanuts in the shell and remarked he hated it when he dropped a perfectly good peanut in the shell bowl. (As a side note brag my 'rents surprised me by calling and asking me to dinner: I had a filet. ) He then said "I found it. Woohoo!" (Small victories, you know.) So I said "Found a peanut, found a peanut." My cousin and I used to sit on my great-aunt's porch swing and sing that.

[Cloud]

we took great delight as kids in the "went the other way" line.

[Shawnee123]

Our version was not nearly so developed. I like!

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Cloud

we took great delight as kids in the "went the other way" line.

We take the same scandalized delight in this song:

Three Little Angels
-collected by Laura Ross

Three little angels all dressed in white
Tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite
But the kite [string] broke and down they all fell
Instead of going to heaven, they all went to --

Two little angels all dressed in white
Tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite...

etc, etc.

Don't get excited, don't lose your head
Instead of going to heaven, they all went to bed!!

followed by gales of laughter. There are several other verses here, angels, devils, martians, Boy Scouts, etc. A very versatile song. In a surprising coincidence, having rewound this thread to the most recent posts, I found UG's song at the top of the page. It looks like fun!

[euphoriatheory]

Did anyone else know "Mm Ah Went The Little Green Frog"?


"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog one day,
"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog!
"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog one day,
As he jumped off of his log.

"Honk HONK!" went the big Mac Truck one day,
"Squish Squish!" went the little green frog,
and the frog won't go "Mm AH!" anymore
'Cause he got lapped up by a dog!