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Subject: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 12:44:03 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 14 12:44:03 1984
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[Bugs eat this and bugs eat that; boom bum biddle duddum bat]

> You bet I remember "Three little fitties;" however, I was five or
> six at the time, so I can't remember the name of the song.....
> .....  I think this song came out sometime between 1950 and 1952.
> Another oldie but baddie from the same time period [was Mairzie
> Doats].....
>          ...unc!wfi!


I would have guessed sometime in the 1940's, but memory is treacherous.
I think it was just called "Three Little Fishes".  And then there was

     Hutsut rawlson on the rillerah
     And a brawla brawla sooitt...

This is a phonetically-based rendition.  I don't know how the inspired
lyricist spelled it originally.  But it was very popular for a period
during (I think) the 40's.  On a different note (!), I recall the
classic "Pistol-Packin' Mama" which I think was based on two chords
and seemingingly endless repetitions of the chorus

          Lay that pistol down, babe,
          Lay that pistol down,
          Pistol-packin' mama,
          Lay that pistol down.

I recall sometime during WW2 an Army Captain feeding nickels into
a juke-box, playing Pistol-Packin' Mama over and over with malice
aforethought, until somebody walked over and pulled the plug out.
The Captain put up a big show of wanting to hear the music he paid
for, and the plug-puller stomped out of the bar in a dudgeon.  At
which the Captain (who was a surgeon, actually) had completed
his objective -- psychological demoralization.  Ah, the good
old days.....

     Gordon Fisher