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I come from Alabama with my Banjo on my knee. Foster, a sample of the original lyrics goes like this: Known to many as a love song and to others as a children’s camp song, “Oh Susanna” has it’s origins in minstrel shows.
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Now the “Woggle Power” reference from 30 Rock makes sense. Harris gave a half hearted apology for these lyrics, then shamed Aboriginal people for their misfortune in Australia. However the original version of this song contains a racial slur against Aboriginal Australians. Like many songs that have racist origins, the most recent versions simply eliminate the racial epithets. There is actually a real children’s music band in Australia called the “Wiggles.” Among their many recordings is a song called “Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport” written by Rolf Harris. I didn’t really get this episode until now. There was a scene in which one of the band members says, “Woggle Power” and then it is explained that “woggle” means white. Score was 9-0.A couple of years ago my husband and I were watching an episode of 30 Rock called “Meet the Woggles.” In this episode there was an Australian Children’s Band called The Woggles. They wereĬooties and bedbugs not skeeters and bedballs. I'm singin' eeny meeny and a miney mo mo mo moĪlso, we sang "I woke up Sunday Morning" a bit differently. I'm singin', Eenie-Meenie and a, Minie-Moe. I'm singin', Eenie-Meenie and a, Minie-Moe I'm singin', Eenie-Meenie and uh, Minie-Moe Thought it was funny, but it would have been REALLY hilarious if we had This one came about during the time of Vatican II (1962 - 1965). There were rats, rats, big as blooming cats,īread. There were Matt, Matt, filling up a sack, I suspect this one of being an army retread, but the Scouts have made it their own. (repeat until you get on everybody's nerves)Ĭontributed by Tim Lupton I think, but the header's missing from the file. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves So you've gotta have rain every now and then There'd be no fish to catch at the end of a hook. If you didn't have showers then you couldn't have If you didn't have rain then you couldn't have
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anyway I'm told this is from a 1956 film called "A Cry From The Streets", by Max Bygraves. Here's one verse - if someone has the rest of the song or knows where it came from please let me know, and I'll pass it along to Cristina, who's looking for it.Īnd by the time someone wrote me, I'd lost her address. And that little "Cool Water" reference in the later part sounds like an adult to me. I suspect this one of being a ringer - at least I've found the title attributed to a songbook entitled "Celebrate in Song", though I've not seen a copy of it to check. Variant pledge of allegance as contributed by Leslie Fish (remembered from her jr high days) I am an Anglican, Just one step from Rome! (Protestant Episcopal)īut I'm Protestant, and Catholic and free! No idea when or where, but internal evidence suggests within the last ten years. Summer day camp, Essex County New Jersey, late 1950s (That last line being read with a straight face as you drop out of rhyme.) "birds in the wilderness" for the original this parodies.Īnd the other got away with minor injuries. Replace the line "files on the garbage can" with Here we sit like flies on the garbage can, (a takeoff on " Birds in the Wilderness", Tune: "The Old Grey Mare") Slack it before its to la.hhhįrom Cally Soukup's mother (who was a Pi Phi)īut fat girls now and then are cherished by the best of men.īack in the 40s this must have been terribly shocking! And she used to complain if I swore.