Ok, this was a song I swear we did in my 3rd-grade music class back in, oh, 197(mumble)…
The lyrics were something along the lines of, “We had a little donkey who liked to get drunk, we called him…” something or other…please, please tell me I’m not the only one who had this song in grade-school!
(Note - the lyrics may be somewhat different, this is just how I remember them, thirty-odd years later…)
This is probably way off the wall, but it sounds to me like Ray Stevens’s “Gitarzan”:
They got a pet monkey who likes to get drunk
An’ sing boogie-woogie and it sounds real funky
Correction on the lyrics to Gitarzan: They got a pet monkey who likes to get drunky…
It rhymes that way.
Nope, it’s not Guitarzan…
“He’s got a girl named Jane with no last name
kinda homely and plain, but he loves her the same…”
I definitely know that song…
The donkey’s name in this song is “Pompalom” or “Pompalomp” or something like that…
Was it Tingalayo, and you’re misremembering the lyrics?
Nope, not Tingalayo…
I had a little donkey
And he done got locked up
Pum pa lum (pum pa lum)
They stick him in the jail
And he ain’t done nothing
Pum pa lum (pum pa lum)
…
They say he’s acting
Like there’s rum in his hay
Pum pa lum (pum pa lum)
He wasn’t drunk
He just wanna play
Pum pa lum (pum pa lum)
xonopa got it. The song is named (The Bad Donkey) Pum-Pa-Lum by Steve Lawrence. The OP still posts here sometimes so I sent a PM about the late answer.
Wow! A drive-by post to a zombie Thread from a same month sign-up . . . and it is relevant and helpful!
Good on you, xonopa. Hope you stick around.
One note of advice: your post may get trimmed by the mods for containing all the lyrics from the complete song. Board rules insist upon brief Fair Use excerpts. Best is to post only the most relevant quote from the lyrics and provide a link to the lyrics in their entirety on the website where you found it.
Now, if someone can find a link to the actual recording, I’d love to hear it! Nothing on Grooveshark or YouTube…
Yes, welcome, xonopa!
We do have a rule about brief quotes only of copyrighted material, so I trimmed it down to two verses that made it clear that you’d found the right song.
Hope you find other threads to participate in!
twickster, Cafe Society moderato
Wow - I only just now got the private message…thanks, everyone!!
It took almost 6 years, but we got an answer! We are good!
ETA: We can’t be stumped (as long as there’s no time limit)!
Wow. This truly was a drive-by post! Not another word from xonopa since.
That was AWESOME. I love the timelessness of the internet
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:3, topic:404378”]
Correction on the lyrics to Gitarzan: They got a pet monkey who likes to get drunky…
It rhymes that way.
[/QUOTE]
Since this thread has been bumped I’d like to continue the correction:
They got a pet monkey who likes to get drunk. He
sings the boogie-woogie and it sounds real funky.
Also rhymes.
It’s like the most boring episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire ever!
Since we’re on the subject of songs starring inebriated draft animals, here’s Darcy’s Donkey by Gaelic Storm.