drennan@nybcb.UUCP (drennan) (12/03/85)
Remember that great comic strip Pogo? The characters in it used to sing a great Christmas carol, and I've been wracking my brains trying to remember the words. It was sung to the tune of "Deck the Halls", and the first line went, "Deck the halls with Boston Charlie...". Is there any one out there that remembers the entire song? Jim Drennan New York Blood Center "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) (12/04/85)
There are many versions of the Boston Charlie, and in fact Walt Kelly produced
an entire book involving discussions, disagreements, etc. among Pogo and his
friends about the correct words. Here is my best recollection of "The Olde
Original Charlie" from that book:
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., and Kalamazoo.
Nora's freezing on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower aligaroo.
Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby, lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola Boola, Pensacoola, Hullabaloo.
I have a tendency to confuse the lines of this with the lines of Gaylord's
version, swapping lines between the two versions. Gaylord, being a hound,
sings it something like this:
Bark us all bow-wows of folly
............................ ( I don't remember these 3 lines )
............................ ( )
............................ ( )
Donkey bonny brays a carol
Antelope, cantaloupe, 'lope with you.
Cholly's collie barks at barrow,
Harum scarum five-alarum bungaloo.
The "Lullaby" and "Antelope" lines are the ones I'm most likely to have swapped
here.
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Morris M. Keesan
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