Can antone help me out here?
Google:
http://www.mudcat.org/kids/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8840
(Sung to the tune of “The Old Gray Mare.”)
I suspect that there are many different versions of this song floating around. Here’s the one I learned from my dad:
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, putrifacted porpoise pus
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts
And I forgot my spoon.
I heard it this way.
"Gobs and gobs of greasy, grimey gopher guts
Mulilated monkey meat
Roasty-toasty birdies feet
French-fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood
I forgot my spoon
(draw it out)
…but I brought my straw…
We didn’t repeat the first line as the third line when we sang it as shown at this site, we sang:
“french fried eye balls floating in a bowl of blood” instead. We also did the second line a little different:
“chopped up monkey meat, multilated birdie feet”
My Childhood version:
“Great green globs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat,
Little birdies’ dirty feet,
Great green globs of greasy, grimy goper guts,
And I forgot my spoon
(but I brought a straw!)”
our regional variation:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, little birdies’ dirty feet
Sixteen eyeballs rolling, rolling down the street
And I forgot my spoon.
another version:
Great…
Mutilated…
All mixed up in a batch of pink-a lemonade
And I forgot my straw!
ah, yes…the memories.
lachesis
One I learned:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat, petrified old birdie feets
french fried eyeballs, served on moldy cream of wheat
wasn’t that a tasty snack? (i forgot my spoon)
I think I only learned two lines, but mine is different:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet.
YMMV, indeed!
I learned:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
mutilated monkey meat,
chopped up little birdie feet!
French-fried eyeballs rollin’ down the dirty street -
That’s how the polar bear (??) died!
(Without a spoon!)
“Without a spoon” is sung to the same tune as the “…and many more!” at the end of “Happy Birthday”.
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeets,
french-fried eyeballs floatin’ in a pool of blood,
and me without a spoon!
Ya know, looking back on this, it’s rather gross! ACK! My mom was right!
Some of the things we sang in the schoolyard in elementary school would probably get us suspended or thrown out in this age of Political Correctness. I never knew the “gopher guts” song, but there were other dreadfuls.
“Comet! It makes your teeth turn green!..”
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school…”
And, my personal favorite:
“Tra-la-la boom de ay
We have no school today.
Our teacher passed away
We shot him yesterday.
We threw him in the bay
He scared the sharks away
Tra-la-la boom de ay
We have no school today!”
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Doubleposted what a putz, dopers all a little nuts,
hamsters working, each’n every day and night,
and I forgot my cite.
You guys are all whacked in the head. The real version (i.e., the one I learned–all others are lame imitations) is:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat,
Little dirty birdies’ feet.
All these things are very, very good to eat,
But I forgot my spoon.
They gave me chopsticks. And indigestion. Ugh!
You guys are all whacked in the head. The real version (i.e., the one I learned–all others are lame imitations) is:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat,
Little dirty birdies’ feet.
All these things are very, very good to eat,
But I forgot my spoon.
They gave me chopsticks. And indigestion. Ugh!
And who could forget other immortal schoolyard favorites, like:
I’ve got a pair of combination underwear.
They don’t rip, and they don’t tear!
I wore 'em 6 weeks, no exaggeration.
Can’t get 'em off, 'cause I lost the combination.
Boom, boom
Ain’t it great to be craaaaazy!!
Boom, boom
Ain’t it great to be nuts!
Boom, boom,
Ain’t it great to be craaaaazy!
Just like the people on this bus!
The way I learned it was:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, very dirty birdie feet
Pale pink piles of petrified pelican puke
And I forgot my spoon!
(But I found a straw! Sluuurrp!)
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey butts
little dirty birdie feet
french fried eyeballs floating in pink lemonade
And I forgot my straw.
Greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
two little birdie’s feet
whip it up into something
tasting really sweet,
eat it for a midnight snack.
(switching tune to the old Campbell’s soup jingle)
Don’t forget your spoon because it’s MMM MMM good!
Hey, where are all the cut up little monkey butts?