On Sunday, May 27, 2001 at 11:29:04 AM UTC-6, Dixon Hayes wrote:
I was very surprised to see this first one protected by a copyright, but here it is...sung to the tune of "On Top of Ol' Smokey" (my memory is rough on the lyrics so bear with me):
"On top of spaghetti,
all covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball
with the greatest of ease,
It rolled off the table
and onto the floor,
it rolled 'cross the parlor
and on out the door,
It rolled down the steps and
rolled under a bush,
and now my poor meatball
is nothing but mush."
Another favorite:
"Ta ra ra boom de ay,
There is no school today,
Our teacher* passed away,
She had a tooth decay.
We put her in the bay,
She scared the fish away,
Ta ra ra boom de ay,
There is no school today..."
*Sometimes an actual teacher's name was substituted ("Hornbuckle passed away..." or "Miss Caldwell passed away...").
Dixon
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Here's how we used to sing it...
Ta ra ra boom de ay,
There is no school today,
The teachers ran away,
We threw them in the bay.
And when we fished them out,
They looked like sauerkraut.
Ta ra ra boom de ay,
There is no school today..."
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