# "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron": unintelligible lyrics
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 10, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176 "2000-05-10T23:12:47Z")
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/1 "2000-05-10T23:12:47Z")
At the end of one verse in this song, is a line about Snoopy flying his Sopwith Camel after the Red Baron:
_He flew into the sky to seek revenge_
Then comes a line I can’t decipher (and I’ve heard the song countless times in 40 years, including my own copy of the single!)
\*But the Baron shot him down (unilintelligible; spoken phrase sounding like “This is I’ll be there” or “Justice I’ll beget!”
Any Dopers know what the real lyric is?? 😕
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/2 "2000-05-10T23:36:18Z")
The spoken line? If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s “Curses, foiled again.”
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### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/3 "2000-05-11T00:51:32Z")
Here’s the missing lines, Dougie:
"In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-looking dog with a big black nose
Flew into the sky to seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down; “Curses, foiled again!”
You can see the complete lyrics [here.](http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~roney/kidsongs.html#snoopy)
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/4 "2000-05-11T02:16:13Z")
Wahhhhh! I want that album of youth! Hell, I want my turn table hooked up again!
I loved that album ( whatever the title of it was, mine had Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter. Ohh, and how about " Tie me kangaroo down, sport" and How Much Is That Doggie in the Window. and other schmaltzy hits of the 60’s. ) It was probably K-tel.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2000, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/5 "2000-05-11T05:13:00Z")
OMG! I was in eleventh grade history. The teacher asked if anyone knew the Red Baron’s real name. I and another girl immediately chirped: “Up in the sky/A man in a plane/Baron von Richtofen was his name!” Well, I started, and she joined in after “sky”.
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### Author:  [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/6 "2000-05-12T19:37:38Z")
Even though this appears to be a dead thread, I’m posting to it in the hopes that Shirley Ujest will look again.
Shirley, I had that EXACT SAME ALBUM as a child! I don’t remember what it was called, although I remember a cartoon drawing of the Red Baron in his plane on the cover (maybe it was called something like “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron and Other Jolly Time Songs”) but it was my favorite for quite some time and the first album I can remember playing for myself a lot. The only song on it I hated was “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.” I hated this song so much (I think the **plinka plinka** guitar - or was it a ukelele? - had something to do with it) that at some point I took the tonearm of the record player (a real record player, before the days of turntables) and deliberately scratched the needle back and forth very hard over the offending band on the vinyl, cutting deep grooves all through this song so that it would never play properly again. (I’m sure this was really good for the needle :rolleyes: although high fidelity was not actually an issue with this primitive device.) I can’t recall why this seemed so necessary at the time; I just really HATED that song with an irrational passion. After committing this bit of surgery (twice, actually, because it didn’t look scratched enough when I inspected it after the initial assault), I played the song on purpose and remember feeling deeply satisfied at how it skipped and popped, as if I had righteously stripped it of its status as a “real song” and punished it for being on the album just to annoy me.
Wasn’t “Puff the Magic Dragon” on there too? That song always seemed sorta creepy to me.
Mental jukebox starts up ---- “How much is that doggie in the window… **woof woof** …”
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/7 "2000-05-12T20:14:10Z")
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> I loved that album ( whatever the title of it was, mine had Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter. Ohh, and how about " Tie me kangaroo down, sport" and How Much Is That Doggie in the Window. and other schmaltzy hits of the 60’s. ) It was probably K-tel.
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You _could_ probably find them in MP3 form with Napster or Gnutella. And since you owned the album at one point, I don’t see any moral problems with you downloading them (not that that would stop me).
I did find “Tie me kangaroo down, sport” for a friend, so I know at least that one’s out there.
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/8 "2000-05-12T20:29:17Z")
_Achtung! Wir singer zusammen die Geschichte von Snoopy und der Rote Baron…_
Oh GOD!! How I wish I still had that 45… b-side “You Needed Me” or something to that effect… ah, the memories of getting in trouble for jumping on the bed and yelling
“10, 20, 30 40, 50 or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin’ up the score.
80 men died tryin’ to end that spree
of the Bloody Red Baron of Ger-ma-ny…”
Man, I miss those days.
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### Author:  [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/9 "2000-05-15T01:45:18Z")
Oh, geez! This thread just triggered a childhood memory! My sister made up some lyrics and kept singing them until I cried! Since my screen name won’t fit the meter of the song and I don’t want to post my real name, I’ll use the words “my sister” in it’s place.
“10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more,
My sister let one fly in the grocery store.
8 men died trying to hold their breath-
She let another one and killed the rest!”
I laugh NOW but I sure cried at the time! I must have been 5 or 6 years old. “Mom! She’s singing that song again!” A fat lot of good it did to tell on her- mom was too busy laughing to yell at her! I am so traumatized! Older sisters…gotta love 'em!
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### Author:  [@Sentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sentinel)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/10 "2000-05-15T02:17:56Z")
Remember the ‘Snoopy For President’ record?
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/11 "2000-05-15T02:44:33Z")
You mean I wasn’t the only kid that listened to this album about 100 times over a _day_? Wow. I think I will have to slink down into the dungeon to see if I can dig up my albums and see if that Snoopy album is still a part of my life.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/12 "2000-05-15T04:29:35Z")
Don’t forget “The Smallest Astronaut”.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/13 "2000-05-15T12:13:33Z")
I had an “astronaut” record when I was about 5. One of the songs was:
Mercury
Venus
Earth and Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
Neptune and Pluto
The wandering stars
My older sister _hated_ that record. But she did get extra-credit on a test for naming the planets in order. She remembered the song.
I kind of wish I still had it. There was a song called _Meet Space-Pilot Jones_, and another that talked about satellites (“Is it raining in Paris? / Will it snow in New York?..”)
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/14 "2000-05-15T14:07:15Z")
Me too!
I have vivid memories of listening to this album while bouncing around on one of those big balls with a handle that you sat on and bounced around on.
It rocked!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/15 "2000-05-15T14:43:52Z")
Which one, Frank? The Snoopy one; or the astronaut one?
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/16 "2000-05-15T15:43:08Z")
Let’s not forget the sequels, the Red Baron’s
Revenge (I think) and Snoopy’s Christmas.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/17 "2000-05-16T04:50:42Z")
Christmas Bells! I love that one! BTW, the group is the Royal Guardsmen.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/18 "2000-05-17T18:28:54Z")
Thanks…I thought the lyric in the chorus was “Aim and dive, try/tryin’ to end that spree…”
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### Author:  [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/19 "2000-05-17T19:09:09Z")
I used to have a yellow vinyl recording of some space girl singing about having six arms to hold you tight and 5 lips to kiss you or something. Anyone remember that? It may have been at 78rpm, but it was small like a 45. I think the flip side had “Topsy Turvey town” on it, about people who walked on their hands, etc. but now that I think of it, that may have been the flipside to my “Zip-a-dee Doo Dah” 45. Hmmmm!
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### Author:  [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snoopy-vs-the-red-baron-unintelligible-lyrics/19176/20 "2000-05-18T19:02:09Z")
voguevixen, for what it’s worth, I remember the song, though I can’t identify it for you. If it comes to me later, I’ll post it.