View Single Post
  #32 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Kate Connally Kate Connally is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,550
Default Looking for a particular novelty song about cannibalism

Omelet wrote:
> In article .net>,
> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>
>> whirled peas wrote:
>>
>>> zxcvbob wrote:
>>>> I think it was a by Elmo & Patsy (of "Grandma Got Run Over By A
>>>> Reindeer" fame), or another group that sounds like them. Had double
>>>> entendres in it about how Momma kept the family fed during hard times,
>>>> like when Uncle died "she gave us the cold shoulder". Very upbeat song.
>>>> :-) The chorus ended with "Even when she died, she died upon a bed of
>>>> lettuce."
>>>>
>>>> It's bugging me because I can't find any references to it *anywhere*,
>>>> and my google-fu is usually pretty good. Also did a lyrics search at
>>>> last.fm and an artist search on E&P and those turned up nothing.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody help me out here? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>> See if "Roast Chicken Faces" by the Toons from the album "Live Toons" is
>>> what you're looking for. The Dr. Demento newsgroup archive has a few
>>> mentions of it. Also search for the title on Youtube.

>> While it isn't about cannibalism, I remember a silly song done by, I
>> *think*, the Kingston Trio about being eaten by a boa constrictor. As I
>> remember it, it went something like...
>>
>> I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
>> A boa constrictor, a boa constrictor
>> I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
>> And I don't like it - one bit
>>
>> Oh, gee - he's up to my knee
>>
>> Oh, fiddle - he's reached my middle
>>
>> Oh, heck - he's up to fmrg wngk gch mrf...

>
> I remember that one from grade school. <g>


Grade school?!!! What?!!! Are you trying to make
me feel old?!!!
Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?