Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...

[Grant Barrett]

On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:50, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>   Glory, glory, hallelujah!
>   Teacher hit me with a ruler!
>   I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine,
>   As we go marching on.

Our versions of the verse were:

   Glory, glory, hallelujah!
   Teacher hit me with a ruler!
   Shot her in the butt with a rotten cocoanut
   And she don't teach no more.

And:

   Glory, glory, hallelujah!
   Teacher hit me with a ruler!
   Met her at the door with a loaded .44
   And she don't teach no more.

I remember we spent a great deal of time coming up with more, but
none have stuck with me. More verses are here:

http://student.maxwell.syr.edu/maxreview/editions/2007edition.pdf
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1083189

We also had "Old Smoky," which is kind of surprising, since the song
was clearly decades out of any kind of fashion (this being the
Seventies and Eighties). The *only* versions of the song we knew were
the satirical ones. I remember hearing the original years later and
being a bit befuzzled.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/

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