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A HORSE NAMED BILL
Recognize the melody?
I had a horse, his name was Bill And when he ran, he couldn't stand still He ran away, one day And also, I ran with him.
He ran so hard he couldn't stop He ran into a barber's shop He fell exhausted, with his teeth In the barber's left shoulder.
Oh I went out into the woods last year To hunt for baar and not for deer I am, I ain't A great, sharp shootsress.
At shooting birds, I am a beaut There is no bird I cannot shoot In the toe, in the ear, in the little finger.
Oh, I went up in a balloon so big, That the people on earth all looked like a pig, Like a mice, like a geese, Like fleases, and like flieses.
The balloon turned up, with its bottom side --higher, It fell on the head of a country squire, He made a noise-like a steamboat, And, also, like a popsicle.
I had a gal and her name was Daisy And when she sang the cat went crazy With deliriums - St. Vituses - And all kinds of cataleptics. One day she sang a song about A man who turned himself inside out And jumped into the river He was so very sleepy.
In Frisco Bay there lives a whale And she eats porkchops by the bale By the hatbox, by the pillbox, by the hogshead, by the schooner.
Her name is Lena, she is a peach But don't leave food within her reach Or babies, or nursemaids, or chocolate ice cream sodas.
She loves to laugh and when she smiles You just see teeth for miles and miles And tonsils, and spareribs, and things to fierce to mention.
She knows no games so when she plays She rolls her eyes for days and days She vibrates, she yodels, and breaks the ten commandments.
Oh, what can you do in a case like that Oh what can you do but sit on your hat Or, a toothbrush, or your grandmother, or anything that's helpless!
This song is sung with many variations of the words. This version is a collection of several versions.
John-patrick Yeiser |