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Volume 11, Issue 28 - Feature #4455

Prairie Pioneer 78rpm Jukebox

Here is the words to "Grandma's Lye Soap" written by Johnny Standley and Art Thorsen:<br /> Do you remember Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Good for everything in the home,<br /> And the secret was in the scrubbing,<br /> It wouldn't suds, and wouldn't foam,<br /> Oh, let us sing right out (sing out!)<br /> For Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Sing it out, all over the place!<br /> For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,<br /> And for your hands,<br /> And for your face!<br /> Little Therman, and Brother Herman,<br /> Had an aversion to washing their ears...<br /> Grandma scrubbed them with her lye soap,<br /> And they haven't heard a word in years!<br /> Oh, let us sing right out (sing out!)<br /> For Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Sing it out, all over the place!<br /> For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,<br /> And for your hands,<br /> And for your face!<br /> Mrs. O'Malley, out in the valley,<br /> Suffered from ulcers, I understand,<br /> She swallowed a cake of Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Has the cleanest ulcers in the land!<br /> Oh, let us sing right out (sing out!)<br /> For Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Sing it out, all over the place!<br /> For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,<br /> And for your hands,<br /> And for your face!<br /><br /> Alternate Verse:<br /><br /> Mrs. O'Malley<br /> Down in the valley<br /> had a hound, I understand.<br /> It swallowed a cake<br /> Of Grandma's lye soap.<br /> Now it's the cleanest hound in all the land<br /> Oh, let us sing right out (sing out!)<br /> For Grandma's Lye Soap,<br /> Sing it out, all over the place!<br /> For pots and pans, and dirty dishes,<br /> And for your hands,<br /> And for your face!<br />

NW Okie - 2009-07-13 22:32:57

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