Good bye One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater

Cafe Society
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Sheb Wooley who wrote that song died.

That song always cracked me up.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/deaths/2106047

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I gotta admit, i hate that song. Too bad for Sheb.

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“She wore a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater,
One-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater,
One-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater,
That she wore for the first time today.”

Wait, that doesn’t sound right.

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Good grief, that’s another part of my childhood memories brought back because of a death. Oh, yeah, I remember that tune. Overly cheery and insane. I liked it. :slight_smile:

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That was my very first record - on 45, and I still have it.

Thanks Sheb - It still makes me happy after 40+ years - not many novelty tunes can do that.

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Thanks for the early morning grin Happy.

I had to check to see if Sheb wrote Yellow Polka Dot Bikini too. How cool would that be? But no. Brian Hyland.

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I remember singing it often in my nursery-school days. But when he died, I thought about the song and realized I have no effing idea what it’s about, where the hell the idea came from, or why it ever got released.

God. I just found the lyrics online. How terrible.