mentula ([info]mentula) wrote,
@ 2006-11-15 21:28:00
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Old Song
So a couple of weeks ago I was waxing on the songs that you hear when you are a child. Songs that seem to have no origin. I'm sure you have some of your own. They are quite often parodies of popular songs. "Couldn't Believe my eyes at the burning of the School" sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body".

I have found that the dirtier the song, the better I remember it. But there was one (a non-dirty one) that I could remember. Sung to the tune of "On Top Of old Smoky"

On top of spagetti, all covered with Cheese
I lost my poor meatball whne somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table and onto the floor
and then my poor meatball, it rolled out the door....


For the life of me I couldn't remember the rest of it. I asked everybody I knew "How does that song end?" and none of them knew. They were calling their friends and family and nobody knew.


But then...

I called Mike Mcgee (a/k/a/johnnyappledog)

He knew the last two lines immediately.

Do you?


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[info]aparecida
2006-11-15 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Um. I remember, it rolled "... under a bush / and then my poor meatball / was nothing but mush." And I remember that it grew into a tree, but I don't remember the exact words.

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[info]mentula
2006-11-16 04:09 am UTC (link)
Good Work.

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[info]hakkenkrak
2006-11-15 10:56 pm UTC (link)
...it rolled down the sidewalk/and under a bush/and then my poor meatball/was nothing but mush.

i had to sing it first to remember it.

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[info]mentula
2006-11-16 04:09 am UTC (link)
Very Good

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[info]cptcaveman
2006-11-15 11:40 pm UTC (link)
On top of spagetti, all covered with Cheese
I lost my poor meatball whne somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table and onto the floor
and then my poor meatball, it rolled out the door....


...it rolled in the garden, and under the bush
and then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.
:)
then there is a whole verse about how the bush became a wonderful spagetti tree...but i have forgotten how that one goes

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[info]mentula
2006-11-16 04:10 am UTC (link)
if you get the next verse, let me know

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[info]cptcaveman
2006-11-16 09:16 am UTC (link)
gladly, i think my mom may still know it

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[info]cptcaveman
2006-11-16 05:50 pm UTC (link)
On top Of spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table
And on to the floor
And then my poor meatball
Rolled out of the door

It rolled in the garden
And under a bush
And then my poor meatball
Was nothing but mush

The mush was as tasty
As tasty could be
And early next summer
It grew into a tree
The tree was all covered
With beautiful moss
It grew lovely meatballs
And tomato sauce

So if you eat spaghetti
All covered with cheese
Hold on to your meatball
And don't ever sneeze

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[info]mentula
2006-11-16 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Awesome...thanks

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[info]icka
2006-11-16 02:11 am UTC (link)
hi, long time no post. how's it going?

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[info]mentula
2006-11-16 04:11 am UTC (link)
Busy, gonna be in the bay area soon. Will try to post more

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