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Songs and Lyrics
The Lunatic's Lullaby
by PKelly on May 24, 2005
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1926
Music & Lyrics by: Leslie Moore, Johnny Tucker & Edgar Leslie
From the 1926 sheet music:
I'm up here in the bug house
My brain is in a rut
My keeper says I'm crazy,
But he is off his nut
I'm just as sane as you are,
And I can prove it too
For when you hear my lullaby
You'll know I'm not cuckoo
Chorus
Oh! I was born at night one morn
And the whistles rang Boom! Boom!
I boil a cake and drink a steak
When the mud pies are in bloom
If six and six are nine
Does ice come from a mine?
Then old Black Joe's an Eskimo
And pork's from porcupine
A pig or cow can bark meow
But a goldfish likes to sing
I saw a frog swim up a log
But he fell and broke his wing
I know that camels sail the sea
That we get honey from a flea
That every horse can climb a tree
On the Road to Mandalay
(repeat Chorus)
Oh, me! Oh, my!
That's the lunatic's lullaby!
Other remembered versions:
Oh, you loop-de-loop in your noodle soup
Just to give your socks a shine.
I'm guilty judge. I ate the fudge.
Three cheers for Old Lang Syne!
I cannot tell a lie.
I hocked an apple pie.
It's on a tree beneath the sea
Above the bright, blue sky.
Oh, if Easter eggs don't wash their legs,
Their children will have ducks. (Quack, quack!)
I'd rather buy a lemon pie
For forty-seven bucks.
Way down in Barcelonia
They jumped into the foamia
But that is all balonia.
Paderewski blow your horn. (Toot, toot!)
Oh they call me old Napoleon
But I'm not him at all
I'm just a North Dakotian
Come up from old Saint Paul
I'll sue them all for sunder
I'll make them all repent
For how can I be Bonaparte
When I'm the president
Lyrics appearing on the Walking Oliver website are either copyright of Walking Oliver & P.A. Kelly or traditional and/or in the Public Domain. All the rest have been granted permissions for their appearance here by the publisher or individual copyright owners.
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