Ok, this isn’t really the kind of great imponderable one would trouble Uncle Cecil with. But it’s been stuck in my head the last week, and I figured this place was my best bet for unclogging it.
When I was a kid, I was addicted to The Muppet Show. There was once a skit involving Kermit as a carnival sideshow barker, and a random female pig Muppet, covered in tattoos, singing a really odd song called ‘Lydia the Tattoed Lady’. Don’t ask me why, it stuck somewhere in the dank corners of my mind. I saw a commercial for videos of The Muppet Show last week, and now that blasted tune has been playing in my head off and on every day. ::grumble:: Trouble is, I don’t recall the words, other than the refrain. Just the oddly catchy music.
It goes something like “Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia? Oh Lydia the taaaaa-ttooed lady…”
Anybody here know the lyrics? Please? It’ll dislodge from my mind a lot faster if my memory doesn’t keep trying to dredge up the words, like picking a scab that never comes loose.
Yes, I know I’m odd. Stop looking at me like that. ::twitch::
Groucho Marx sang “Lydia” in “At the Circus,” a 1939 Marx Brothers picture.
Here are the lyrics:
Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
She has eyes that folks adore so,
and a torso even more so.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it, The Wreck of the Hesperus too.
And proudly above waves the red, white, and blue.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!
La-la-la…la-la-la.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
When her robe is unfurled she will show you the world,
if you step up and tell her where.
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree,
or Washington crossing The Delaware.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
When her muscles start relaxin’,
up the hill comes Andrew Jackson.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of them all.
For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz,
with a view of Niagara that nobody has.
And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!
La-la-la…la-la-la.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso.
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso.
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon.
Here’s Godiva, but with her pajamas on.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
Here is Grover Whelan unveilin’ The Trilon.
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Isle-on.
Here’s Nijinsky a-doin’ the rhumba.
Here’s her social security numba.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
La-la-la…la-la-la.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Champ of them all.
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet.
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.
And now the old boy’s in command of the fleet,
for he went and married Lydia!
I said Lydia…
(He said Lydia…)
They said Lydia…
We said Lydia, la, la!
Hey btw i have this song in my head but not much data about it…its like i heard it somewhere…its a romantic song and not too old…All i remember from the lyrics is the line “I wanna hold you in my arms tonight”. Its some guy singing it…I asked this girl and she said its probably by joe s??? something rhyming with cetera…I dunno…guess the clues are vague…if anyone cud solve this plz lemme know.
Katherine Hepburn’s “little sister” also sang it in “Philadelphia Story” way back when, to scare off her sister’s suitor.
Since the question in the OP has been answered, please allow me this hijack. This, too, is a song from the Muppet Show that I would like identified. It was performed by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem; since they usually performed covers, I doubt if they wrote it. Er, well, you know what I mean. Anyway, I remember the chorus and part of one of the verses:
Chorus:
If you ain’t been dancing lately, don’t blame your shoes
And if you ain’t been happy lately, don’t put it on the blues
Don’t blame the dynamite if you can’t light the fuse
There’s a party all the time for them what choose.
Part of one verse:
Her hair is in the closet
Her teeth are on the shelf
I’ll put the good parts in a bag
And go out by myself.
I try to identify this for myself with Internet searches every now and then, but to no avail. Any ideas where this came from?
Incidentally, this is one of the songs that I often have trouble getting out of my head, along with the theme to the $20,000 Pyramid and an Old Navy performance fleece commercial from a few Christmases ago. Go fig.