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[truepenny]

And now, a song.*

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Chopped-up monkeys' feet,
Little baby parakeets.
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
And I forgot my spoon.

(Sung, for those of you who may not have encountered it at summer camp when you were wee sprogs, to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare." Also sung con brio, please.)

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*Inspired either by the state of American politics or heres_luck's chest cold. Or both.

Comments

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

I learned slightly different lyrics:

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Marinated monkey meat,
Mutilated parakeet,
One-pint jar of all-purpose porpoise pus,
And I forgot my spoon!

(The rest of it doesn't change all that much, but I had to give you that fourth line.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic!
Thank you!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mine:

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Marinated monkey meat,
Little dirty birdy feet,
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
And I forgot my spoon!

[pbprincess.livejournal.com]

and mine:

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat
choppedup dirty birdie feet
all slopped down on wonderbread
and I forgot my spoooooon.

but I brought my straaaaaaw.


I was always bothered by the fact that if it was a sandwich, both spoon and straw were extraneous.

[larryhammer]

Heh. That's the varient I learned from my mother.

---L.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

There's a book called Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, by Josepha Sherman and Toni Weisskopf, that collects assorted versions of that and other offensive children's folksongs.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Really? I did a paper on the various versions of Great Green Gobs, etc. when I was in college.

FWIW, I learned two versions:

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Chopped up birdie feet
French-fried eyeballs
Rolling down a dirty street
Gee, I forgot my spoon
Oh well I brought my straaaaaw... **obnoxious slurping noise**

The other version ended with:
Rolling down a dirty street
Put 'em all together and whaddya got?
A typical element'ry school lunch!

(in a different tune, though)

[marith.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't suppose it's really more grisly than ring-around-the-rosy.


The version where I grew up was:

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
Disconnected birdie feet,
Mutilated monkey meat,
and I forgot my spoon
so I used the straw!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

weighing in with:


Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Little birdy wirdy feet
Marinated monkey meat
French-fried eyeballs smothered in kerosene
Oops, I forgot my spoon!