"Mop" in Caldonia (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Paul]

I can't find the lyric anywhere but wasn't there a song "Funny Bone"
lyric starts "I say F, I say F U.   etc ..F U N N Y  B O N E funny bone" ?
right after Rag Mop and pretty daring for us 10/12 year olds

Wilson Gray wrote:
> One of my most favoritest songs, when I was twelve years old.
>
> Is this a "silly song" about a rag mop, a common household utensil of
> the day? Or is it a deep pun combining "rag" as a kind of music with
> the beat-marker "mop" from another kind of music?
>
> -Wilson
> ------
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
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> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Paul <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
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>> then there was "RAG MOP' 1950 Though Caladonia
>>
>>
>> ? M
>> ? I say M-O
>> ? M-O-P
>> ? M-O-P-P
>> ? Mop
>> ? M-O-P-P
>> ? Mop Mop Mop Mop
>>
>> ? R
>> ? I say R-A
>> ? R-A-G
>> ? R-A-G-G
>> ? Rag
>> ? R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
>> ? Rag Mop
>>
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
>> ? Rag Mop!
>>
>> ? A
>> ? I say A-B
>> ? A-B-C
>> ? A-B-C-D
>> ? A-B-C-D-E
>> ? A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H
>>
>> ? I
>> ? I say M-O
>> ? M-O-P
>> ? M-O-P-P
>> ? Mop
>> ? M-O-P-P
>> ? Mop Mop Mop Mop
>>
>> ? R
>> ? I say R-A
>> ? R-A-G
>> ? R-A-G-G
>> ? Rag
>> ? R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
>> ? Rag Mop
>>
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? Rag Mop
>> ? Doo-doo-doo-DAH-dee-ah-dah
>> ? R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
>> ? Rag Mop!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilson Gray wrote:
>>
>>> It's just an exclamation used to mark the beat, probably originally a
>>> variation on "bop," or the other way around, though possibly not,
>>> since "bop" may be a clip of "be-bop." Or not. IAC, it's completely
>>> without meaning.
>>>
>>> I remember Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five very well, since they were
>>> featured in dozens of Sepiatone movies made for the cinematic version
>>> of the chitlin circuit. Therre wasn't anything similar for Charlie
>>> Yardbird and le grand Dizzy. I know when (be-)bop was hip, but I have
>>> no useful idea as to when or how the term came about. Other people
>>> have ideas about this, but I have no more faith in
>>> their ideas than I have in my own.
>>> WRT to movies, you never knew what chitlin-circuit flick you might
>>> see. Would you believe, e.g. Roy Acuff's "Night Train to Memphis" and
>>> various shorts by the Sons of the Pioneers and Bob Wills and the Texas
>>> Playboys? These were in addition to the usual Westerns featuring Ken
>>> Maynard and "Tarzan," The Wonder Horse, Whip Wilson, Lash Larue, and
>>> other giants of the field.
>>>
>>> -Wilson
>>> ------
>>>
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