Boom Boom Ain't it Great to be Crazy
(source: "The World's Best Funny Songs", Esther J. Nelson, 1988; also
in "The Worm Song and Other Tasty Tunes, Janet Wilson, 1993, and in
"The Kids' Campfire Book", Jane Drake and Ann Love, Kids Can Press,
1996.)
Many thanks to Winifred McGee and Linda Buchanan, for
posting this song to the Guide Mailing List!
Chorus:
- Boom Boom, ain't it great to be Crazy?
- Boom Boom, ain't it great to be Crazy?
- Giddy and Foolish all day long
- Boom Boom, ain't it great to be Crazy!
- Way down south where bananas grow
- A flea stepped on a elephant's toe
- The elephant cried with tears in his eyes
- "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"
Way up north were there's ice and snow
- There was a pengin and his name was Joe
- He got tired of black and white
- So he wore pink slacks to the dance last night!
A horse and a flea and three blind mice
- Sat on the curbstone shooting dice
- The horse, he slipped and fell on the flea
- Woops! said the flea, there's a horse on me!
I bought a suit of combination underwear
- Guaranteed not to rip or tear
- I wore them six months and to my consternation
- I couldn't get the darned thing off, I'd lost the combination!
I love myself. I think I'm grand.
- When I go to movies, I hold my hand.
- I put my arm around my waist,
- And when I get fresh, I slap my face.
I call myself on the telephone
- Just to hear my musical tone.
- I ask myself for a heavy date,
- And I pick myself up at half past eight.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
- And Fuzzy Wuzzy cut his hair.
- So, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy.
- No, by Jove, he wasn't, was he?
I take a swim in my swimming pool.
- I jump from the board 'cause that's the rule.
- I hit my head on cement and mortar.
- Forgot to look - there was no water.
That one-eared cat who used to sit
- Watching Grandma rock and knit
- Swallowed a ball of bright red yarn,
- And out came kittens with red sweaters on.
Thanks very much to Renee Pearson, who emailed
these extra verses to me.
- I had a dog and he had fleas.
- He had fleas all over his knees.
- And every time his tail went flop,
- The fleas on the bottom all jumped to the top!
Eli, Eli, he sells socks.
- A dollar a pair and a nickel a box.
- The longer you wear 'em, the stronger they get,
- You put 'em in the water and they don't get wet!
Here's a second version of the song. Thanks very much
to Sara Whitney and Micki Pagan for e-mailing me this song!
Chorus:
- I'm going crazy
- Don't you want to come along
- I'm going crazy
- Just singin' this song
- Once I had a little cat
- And all she ate was yarn
- And when those kittens came
- They came with sweaters on!
Once I had a little dog
- And all she ate was cans
- And when those puppies came
- They came in Ford sedans!
When Mary had a little lamb
- The doctor was surprised
- When Old MacDonald had a farm
- The doctor nearly died!