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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard
Message-ID: <2115@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Oct-84 00:49:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 27 00:49:34 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 07:07:31 EDT
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Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia
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Summary: 

In article <1572@uvacs.UUCP> gmf@uvacs.UUCP writes:
>
>[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...
>

Actually, this came up just tonight (oct 20) when The Prarie Home Companion
did the Three Little whatever's .  My father says he heard it in college
in the mid 30's. I don't doubt that there was a version in the early
50's though; the idea that covering other people's songs showes a lack
of creativity is a fairly new one. 

While we are on old silly songs , how about the ever popular "Flat foot
floogie with a floy floy", or "The Booglie Wooglie Piggly Wiggly"
(this one is really bad, though I kind of like the other).

			Ted Nolan  ..usceast!ted
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