Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard Message-ID: <1572@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 12:44:03 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1572 Posted: Sun Oct 14 12:44:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 08:02:09 EDT Lines: 38 [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