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Ch 1. Somewhere overindulgence. Somewhere overindulgence -- I want a beer just like the beer -- Beer, beer, for *** high -- The beer was spilled on the barroom floor -- Rye whiskey -- Away with rum -- Collard greens -- The mushroom -- Onions -- Turnip greens -- Goober peas -- Chicken sandwich -- Coming through the rye -- Hymn to cheeses -- Soup -- Coffee -- Dunk! Dunk! Dunk! -- <U+2018>Neath the crust of the old apple pie -- The pie dream -- Gooseberry pie -- Mother's cookies -- Hymn for Syttende Mai -- Ole, ole, ole! -- Deck the halls with lefse slices -- Lefse -- Lutefisk -- Turkey dinner -- Next thanksgiving -- Glory, glory, pork superior -- One fish ball -- I went to Cincinnati -- Waiter, waiter -- Over there -- Today is <U+2026> -- The lollipop song -- Milkshake -- Found a peanut -- O'Dooley's first five o'clock tea -- I love to go a-gorging -- Toys, beautiful toys -- Bye, bye, longjohns -- My pink pajamas -- Black socks -- O'Brien O'Lin -- Shovel -- I'm looking under a pile of lumber -- Pepsi-cola hits the spot -- Bosco -- Fleischmann's yeast -- Beecham's pills -- Comet -- McDonald's -- While shepherds washed their socks -- Chew, maiden, chew ; Ch 2. We sing of the polar bear and other creatures. We sing of the polar bear -- The bear went over the mountain -- The other day I met a bear -- In the Blue Ridge Mountains -- The bulldog and the bullfrog -- Froggie went a-courting -- O Tom the toad -- Froggie he am a queer bird -- Little furry caterpillar -- The thousand-legged worm -- Beetles -- Be kind to your web-footed friends -- See these young ducks at play -- Oh, I had a little chicken -- Papa's Billy goat -- Groundhog -- Groundhog medley -- She, a Jersey cow -- The Frenchman's cow -- The red fox -- Take it out, take it out, remove it -- The whale song -- Whoa, mule, whoa -- The old grey mare -- Donkey riding -- Jiggs the dog -- What a long, long tail -- Anybody seen my kitty? -- Yuck! Cats -- Pussy willow -- It's a long way from amphioxus ; Ch 3. Songs of misrule. Boys can whistle, girls can sing -- Perfect posture -- Leave the dishes in the sink -- Elbows -- I eat my peas with honey -- Rootie-toot-toot -- We come from St. Olaf -- Respect -- I won't marry -- My grandma's advice -- Yield not to flirtation -- Let your whiskers grow -- Old Dan Tucker -- I ain't gonna grieve my Lord no more -- Three jolly fishermen -- The man behind -- Reuben, Reuben ; Ch 4. The burning of the school. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- Emily Dickinson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Excelsior!" -- Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" -- Edgar Allen Poe's "The raven" -- Robert Frost's "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" -- Chaucer's "The Canterbury tales" -- Row, row, row your boat -- The great American eagle -- I shot my poor teacher -- I'm Chiquita banana -- My hand on myself -- I love to do my homework -- Now I lay me down to study -- Study oft on Sunday -- From the halls of school's dark prison -- Deck the halls -- Cherries are ripe -- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school -- Mine eyes have seen the horror of the ending of the term -- P.S. 52 -- School days -- Ta ra ra boom de ay ; Ch 5. Bringing in the cows. Bringing in the cows -- East side, West side -- Onward, Christian bedbugs -- Glory, glory, how peculiar -- The old Chevrolet -- Blest be the tie that binds -- Nero, my dog, has fleas -- I'm screaming at a white sheepdog -- She's a grand old cat -- The cat that chewed my new shoes -- Casey Jones the rooster -- Hang your head over -- Down by the old garbage slough -- On top of old Smoky -- On top of my headache -- There are germs -- My wild Irish nose -- Eight feet tall -- What a doll -- Don't you call me sweetheart -- Let me call you Lizzie -- At the boarding house where I live -- Tinkle, tinkle, little pee -- When you come to the end of a lollipop -- God save the king -- We three kings -- Good king Wences ; Ch 6. Greasy grimy gopher guts. Bring back my neighbors to me -- The bathtub song -- A year ago our baby died -- Come up, dear dinner, come up -- McTavish is dead -- Now we are marching -- Casey's coffins -- Whistle while you work -- Did you ever think -- National embalming school -- Suffocation -- On top of old smoky -- The watermelon song -- The garbageman's daughter -- Don't swat your mother -- Boys -- At the jail -- My body has Tuberculosis --I'm a villain -- Greasy grimy gopher guts -- Zekey looked into the gas tank -- Little Willie I -- Little Willie II -- I'm looking over my dead dog Rover -- Granny's in the cellar -- Guess I'll eat some worms -- That sausage meat machine ; Ch 7. New songs from old. Poor Nellie -- There was an old geezer -- On top of old baldy -- Mrs. Brown -- Old farmer Brown -- Pile of debris -- That stepladder in the snow -- So I climbed up the old apple tree -- Let me call you sweetheart -- You drove your buick -- Two auto songs -- After glow worm -- Put on your new blue bonnet -- We've enlisted in the navy -- Parties, banquets, and balls -- The Danube's not so blue -- Joe's got a head like a ping-pong ball -- The pumpkin on the vine -- The bugs marched down the aisle -- Bugs go wild, simply wild -- Over me -- Dakotaland -- The dogsology -- After auld lang syne -- While shepherds washed their socks -- The scarlet bonnet -- My country's tired of me -- The old family toothbrush -- My high silk hat -- Vive le Captain John -- There's a long, long worm a-crawling -- D-A-V-E-N-P-O-R-T -- After ach, du lieber Augustine -- Zip up your doo-dah ; Ch 8. Ain't we crazy?. Ain't we crazy? -- I was born about ten thousand years ago -- I was born one night one morn -- Golly, ain't that queer -- The worm song -- A horse named Bill -- The skinniest man I ever knew -- Catalina Magdalena -- Side by side -- My freckle-faced consumptive Mary Ann -- Ve got troubles -- How pleasant that would be -- While looking out a window -- The billboard song -- There was a rich man who lived in Jerusalem -- The biblical baseball game -- Young folks, old folks (or the silly Sunday school) -- While the organ pealed potatoes -- Questions -- Ain't it great to be crazy? ; Ch 9. Fun with words and sounds. The king of the cannibal islands -- There was a little rooster -- If I were as high -- Love to be in Copenhagen -- Have you ever seen? -- Down at the station -- My name is Solomon Levi -- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt -- Too much of a name -- Michael Finnigan -- I saw Esau -- The mule -- The posture song -- The preposition song -- No L -- Books of the old testament -- Books of the new testament -- The states song -- Overeducated nursery rhymes -- Indicate the way -- She waded in the water -- Susie had a steamboat -- Do your ears hang low? -- Junior birdman -- My hat it has three corners -- Bingo -- Jump rope rhyme -- Glub, glub, glub your boat -- Nonsense rhymes -- Thistle-sifting -- Louisiana rainstorm ; Ch 10. The peanut gallery. Oh, my monster, Frankenstein -- Four little angels -- The butcher's legs -- This is my dolly's birthday -- Dolly and teddy -- The dreidel song -- All the pretty little horses -- Mockingbird -- I have a little dog -- Oh, I wish I was a <U+2026> -- How do you like to go up in a swing? -- The north wind doth blow -- Ring around the rosy -- It's raining, it's pouring -- Just when I'm ready to start on my ears -- When pa was a little boy -- Wait for the wagon -- Once I went in swimmin' -- What do you do with a dirty family? -- Ho-hum, nobody's home -- Life is but a melancholy flower -- One bottle pop -- My dame's crane -- Shoo shoo shoo reparoo -- Charlie, won't you rock the cradle? -- Go to sleepy, little baby -- Bye, baby, bye -- My little owlet -- Sail, baby, sail -- Rock me to sleep -- Louisiana lullaby -- The little ole ; Ch 11. The grab bag. Alaska -- Home on the snow -- When it's springtime in Alaska -- Cape Cod girls -- Birmingham's my home -- Minnesota! -- Oh, ay liff in Minneapolis -- My home's in Montana -- The nose of Oklahoma smells you -- Sweet Dakotaland -- South Dakota is the sunshine state -- I don't give a darn for the whole state of Iowa -- New Mexico, we love you -- We're from Kansas -- Smile that are best of all -- There are ships -- The rummy dummy line -- Never go camping on Labor Day -- Johnny Macree -- She sate on her hammock -- Wait <U+2018>til we get' em up in the air, boys -- When we went to Sunday school -- I ain't got no money -- My pappy's whiskers ; Ch12. Sweet sentiments and old favorites. Billy boy -- Brother John -- White coral bells -- Old folks at home -- Little brown jug -- Camptown races -- Crawdad -- Clementine -- Jesse James -- Polly-wolly-doodle -- Goodbye, old Paint -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- She'll be comin' <U+2018>round the mountain -- I wish I was single again -- Over the river and through the woods -- Long, long ago -- The Titanic -- When the work's all done this fall -- The soldier's poor little boy -- Babes in the woods -- Sweet and low -- Skip to my Lou -- Vive la compagnie -- Farther along -- Down in the valley -- Tell me why. |
