# Good bye One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559 "2003-09-19T06:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/1 "2003-09-19T06:14:53Z")
Sheb Wooley who wrote that song died. That song always cracked me up. [http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/deaths/2106047](http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/deaths/2106047) ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/2 "2003-09-19T06:30:34Z")
I gotta admit, i hate that song. Too bad for Sheb. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/3 "2003-09-19T06:46:54Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/4 "2003-09-19T06:57:34Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Extraneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Extraneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Extraneous)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/5 "2003-09-19T07:11:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/6 "2003-09-19T12:53:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/202559/7 "2003-09-19T16:43:05Z")
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.