"Polly Wolly Doodle"
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History
"Polly Wolly Doodle" is a song first published in a Harvard student songbook in 1880. It is sometimes credited to Dan Emmett (Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett (October 29, 1815 – June 28, 1904) an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition - also "Old Dan Tucker", "Dixie", and possibly "Turkey in the Straw".)
The melody of this song as it is usually sung formed the basis for Boney M.'s hit Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday in 1979, and is common in children's music, appearing in a Sunday school song called "O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E", the German group die Lollipops' Radio Lollipop, and is the tune of the Barney & Friends song Alphabet Soup (though only using the first verse's tune). Shirley Temple also sang "Polly Wolly Doodle" in the 1935 film, "The Littlest Rebel".
Oh, I went down South for to see my Sal
singing Polly wolly doodle all the day
my Sal, she am a spunky gal
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Chorus:
Fare thee well, fare thee well,
fare thee well my fairy Fay
for I'm off to Lou'siana for to see my Susyanna
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Oh, my Sal, she is a maiden fair
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
with curly eyes and laughing hair
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Chorus:
Oh I like watermelon and I have for years
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
I eat watermelon because it gets upon my ears
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Chorus:
Oh, a grasshopper sittin' on a railroad track
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
a pickin' his teeth with a carpet tack
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Chorus:
Behind the barn, down on my knees
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Oh he sneezed so hard with the whooping cough
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
he sneezed his head and his tail right off
sing Polly wolly doodle all the day
Fare thee well, fare thee well,
fare thee well my fairy Fay
for I'm off to Lou'siana for to see my Susyanna
sing Polly Wolly Doodle
sing Polly Wolly Doodle
sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day
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