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lastlib

(26,760 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:57 AM Jun 2025

A Dumb Song I Remember From Childhood:

(sung to the tune of "On Top of Ol' Smoky" )

On top of Spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table,
And onto the floor,
And then my poor meatball
Rolled out of the door.

It rolled to the garden,
And under a bush.
And then my poor meatball
Was nothing but mush.

I cried for my meatball
Down on bended knee,
But early next summer,
It grew to a tree.

The tree was all covered
With beautiful moss,
It grew lovely meatballs
In tomato sauce.

So if you eat Spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball
And DON’T. EV.-ER. SNEEZE!!

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(told ya it was dumb.......)
IDK why it even popped into my head this morning.

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A Dumb Song I Remember From Childhood: (Original Post) lastlib Jun 2025 OP
Thx for the trip down memory lane. SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1
Happy to amuse y'all! lastlib Jun 2025 #2
Try MA group? SheltieLover Jun 2025 #9
I remember that. Thank you lastlib. debm55 Jun 2025 #3
this is in my ear worm player cache now and then. hem AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #4
Dick Biondi? WLS? CanonRay Jun 2025 #5
I'll bet you're from Chicago! hedda_foil Jun 2025 #6
i knew it when i was in la, boy scouts . AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #8
I loved his show. Cuddly Duddly! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #10
Nope, Kansas City MO. lastlib Jun 2025 #11
just only knew the first verse . thanks for posting the rest of the song. AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #7
I loved that song as a kid! kimbutgar Jun 2025 #12
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts! ThoughtCriminal Jun 2025 #13
The last two lines were different where I was a kid nuxvomica Jun 2025 #14

AllaN01Bear

(27,501 posts)
4. this is in my ear worm player cache now and then. hem
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jun 2025

now its going to be in my brain all day.

hedda_foil

(16,837 posts)
6. I'll bet you're from Chicago!
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:37 AM
Jun 2025

Ray Rayner used to sing this (loosely defined) song on his WGN kids show, Ray Rayner and His Friends.

lastlib

(26,760 posts)
11. Nope, Kansas City MO.
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 12:25 PM
Jun 2025

Visited Chi-town once on business, passed through it once on a family trip, but that's all.

kimbutgar

(26,150 posts)
12. I loved that song as a kid!
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jun 2025

We had a music teacher that made us sing a couple of difficult songs and at the end of the class we sang this song!

ThoughtCriminal

(14,639 posts)
13. Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts!
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 01:01 PM
Jun 2025

Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat.
Dirty little birdie feet.
French fried eyeballs rolling down a dirty street,
And me without my spoon.


The remarkable thing is how these "forbidden" songs spread among children across the country without the internet. You didn't hear them on TV or radio and were not allowed to sing them in the presence of adults. Yet from Savanah to Spokane, the lyrics were pretty much the same - with some variations.

My theory has been that kids in military families, post-WW-2 mobility, summer camps, and family reunions accelerated the process.

nuxvomica

(13,659 posts)
14. The last two lines were different where I was a kid
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 01:26 PM
Jun 2025

It was:

French fried eyeballs dipped in kerosene
And I forgot my spoon but I brought a straw -- slurp, slurp!

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