Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 01, 2010

Nobody appreciates good music…

Well, he can fly like a sparrow.

Oh! I wanted to hear the rest of the song.

……..it rolled off the taaaaaaaaabbbbbbbblllllllllllleeee and down to the floor……….

It rolled and it rolled, right out of the door. It rolled down the sidewalk, and into the street, and now my poor meatball….

It was one of my favorite songs as kid! I had my parents play it over and over again on the hi-fi! The song was called,” On top on spaghetti.” I can’t remember who sang it though so I’ll have to look it up on the internet.

Rapturous melody! Spaghetti?

I want to hear the rest of the song , too!!

Hmmm, that wasn’t my favorite song or dish, but watching Calvin fly out the door makes me think of Freebird, which I’m actually listening to right now.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

It’s best when sung by as many preadolescents as possible.

SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED started throwing things (at me?) before I finished the third verse of “Found a Peanut” yesterday. Someday I’ll get her on a plane to Europe.

The way Calvin is thrown out is musical to me. Smooth.

And another one that is good for raising parental blood pressure:

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, ….

Or

Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts

Either of them or even both sung over and over again like 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

Song sparrows are sometimes better off by choosing more conventional material.

All these songs, much like Calvin’s singing, is for the birds!

John? Jacob? Jinglehiemer-Smith???

This is one of my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strips.

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt That’s my name, too! Whenever I go out The people always shout, There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt! tra la tra la la la la…..

…fingers firmly stuck in earholes…

Travis has just ruined my appetite for a hearty Sunday breakfast. Go to the garden and eat worms, Travis!

If I know Calvin as he was singing he was playing with his food which was the sign he was done along with his mothers patience!

The fourth picture, can someone read the text, but this is no …….,sparrow! I cannot read this part. It is a song sparrow.

This in no ORDINARY sparrow,, i think he put it in all caps, to sound important. AS for another annoying song,, ” I’m Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am, I’m married to the widow next door, she been married 7 times before, and every ones named Henry, Henry” 2nd verse same as the first”.. hehe

I loved these songs as a kid. When my kids learned them…. not so much.

Just think how the C & H strip today inspired so many beautiful songs

Watterson is a birder i see. of course song sparrows actually deserve their name. Calvin’s discordant wailing would never be mistaken for their song.

I have to chime in with an old parody of the Bosco chocolate syrup ad that mysteriously spread from coast to coast in the fifties:

“I hate Bosco, Bosco’s bad for me./ Mommy puts it in my milk to try to poison me! / But I fooled my Mommy and put it in her tea…/ and now I have no Mommy to try to poison me!”

A lot of version of this song too. But our hero is to young and innocent to know about that thank you .

every sunday is pasta sunday at chez billdi…so today of course there will be more than a chance (i’m in seattle) of cloudy with meatballs

GEE…!! that sounds like me….

Travis, Carl Spackler thanks you. “Cinderella story. Kid out of nowhere about to win the Masters. IT”S IN THE HOLE!!”

OMG! Talk about deja vu. This is like what happens after coming out of It’s a Small World and hearing that flippin song for the rest of the day. Not to mention trying to go to sleep later that night. Thanks people. Maybe a little CSN will cure this. Wish me luck.

Hey Travis, the version I knew was:

One big glob of Greasey grimey gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Vulture vomit at your feet. Add a pound of Pickled peppered porpoise puss, Don’t have a spoon But I have a straw! SSLLUUURRRPP!!

So I was on a field trip with my 4th grader daughter - and after the 15th repetition of this song, I had my ownversion in my head - which I offer to you now, for spreading to any 10yrolds you know…

On top of spaghetti All covered with cheese I found out my meatball Had Mad Cow Disease I died when I ate it Won’t do that again Sure wish I had been a VEGETARIAN…

Lewreader, my son and a friend once sang “Found a Peanut” at a cub scout talent show. All 12 verses of it. By the time they were done, everyone cheered.

keltii: Sang that one on the way to visit my grandparents in Oregon one summer (about 1000 miles). I think my parents were a little (lot?) crazy by the time we got there.

And there was:

1 Hen 2 Ducks 3 squawking geese - quack 4 limerick oysters 5 corpulent porpoises 6 pair of Don Albertos tweezers 7 thousand Macedonians in full battle array 8 brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt 9 lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep 10 old men on bicycles who sway around the corner with a queezey and a quay all at the very same time.

So if you eat spaghetti All covered with cheese Hold on to your meatball And don’t ever sneeze

Re Bosco parody song: I remember the parody better than the original jingle!

Lewreader, et. al., can any of you help me out with the first line of all 12 versus of “Found A Peanut”? I’m 72 and have forgotten some of them. What I remember is:

Found a peanut Popped it open Found a worm in it Ate it anyway Got sick Called the doctor Died anyway Went to heaven

- Found a peanut

I want to teach my grandkids this for some payback!!! LOL

But you guys don’t have all the lyrics:

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

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

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

The mush was as tasty As tasty could be, And then the next summer, It grew into a tree.

The tree was all covered, All covered with moss, And on it grew meatballs, And tomato sauce.

So if you eat spaghetti, All covered with cheese, Hold on to your meatball, Whenever you sneeze.

Found a peanut, found a peanut, Found a peanut just now, Just now I found a peanut, Found a peanut just now.

Cracked it open, It was rotten, Ate it anyway, Got a stomach ache, Called the doctor, Penicillin, Operation, Died anyway, Went to heaven, Wouldn’t take me, Went the other way, Didn’t want me, Was a dream, Then I woke up, Found a peanut,

More variations are at Wikipedia

I use to sing “On Top Of Spaghetti” when I was a kid too. Thankfully, my parents didn’t throw me out the door when I did because back then (same as now!), I couldn’t carry a tune if it had a handle attached to it! ;-)

On the other hand … I probably didn’t sing it at the top of my voice either like this “song sparrow” appears to be doing in the 6th panel! If I had, I might have gotten tossed out the door too!!!

Some of these childhood songs bring back memories! Here’s another:

When you see the hearse go by You think you are the next to die They wrap you up in bloody sheets And send you down, in six feet deep

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out Come out of your stomach and into your mouth Your eyes fall out, your teeth decay And that’s the end of the wonderful day!

Absolutely drove my mom bonkers with this one!

♪♫ This is the song that never ends. It goes on and on my friends. Somebody started singing it not knowing what it was. We keep on singing it forever just because, this is the song that never ends….♫♪

i wonder what the furniture would be for the branch?

… AND

Saucy wins

Our kids had a VHS with THIS on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WD1WocorTk

Another song was “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”. The second line Calvin could change brudda to maybe Tigah. I believe that would work.

Now Calvin’s the meatball.

Tom Glazer recorded,”On Top of Spaghetti” in 1963. The song was made up in 1957 by some kids at the Davie Elementary School in Florida during a lunch break when it was too rainy to play outside!

Same song, second verse. Could be better but it’s gonna be worse. Would work with most of the songs above. Don’t know if there’s music for this one: There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don’t why she swallowed a fly, I thought she’s die. There was an old woman who swallowed a spider; she swallowed the spider to eat the fly, I don’t know why, I thought she’d die. She swallowed a mouse…cat…dog…horse…She died of course.

I’m pretty sure I sang “On top of Spaghetti” at church camp in the late 1940’s.

It’s a fantastic song We taught it to the little kids in Sunday School just for fun. I can tell you this for a fact. If you have 30+ kids from 3 year olds up, it really wakes them up for the lesson.

Applescruff, the version I learned replaced “Come out of your stomach and into your mouth” with “The worms play penochle on your snout.”

How about this one? (or one of lots of variations thereof)

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school We have tortured all the teachers, we have broken all the rules We have beaten [principal’s name] in a dirty game of pool And we’ll go marching on!

Glory, glory hallelujah Teacher hit me with a ruler I hid behind the door With a loaded 44 Now there ain’t no teacher no more!”

another chorus at my school was “…hit the teacher with a ruler and sent him into town with his pants pulled down Our troops are marching on”

In my childhood I had an album that had all sorts of crazy songs on it that was named Funky Favorites. Top of spag. was on it along with Junk food junky,my ding a ling,Hello mother, ect… I thought It was GREAT !!

Spiff the Spaceman takes off for unknown regions after talking/ singing to the tower prior to takeoff…..

A lot of those songs were popularized by Spike Jones or Alan Sherman. Sherman had a lot of better stuff before “Hello Mudda.” Best I can figure this’n came from a field hospital in Normandy. Thanx, Uncle Joe.

♪♫’Neath the crust of an old apple pie, There is something for you & for I. It may be a pin, That the cook just dropped in, Or it may be a nice little fly. Or it may be an old rusty nail, Or the tip of a pussycat’s tail. But whatever it be. It’s for you & for me. ‘Neath the crust of an old apple pie.♫♪

bloomfan, Your school was obviously three notches tougher than my school!

This kind of phenomenon is international. Just the other day I was recalling the words (in French) to an old hiking/marching song my father and mother taught me as a kid; they must have gotten them from Europe:

“One kilometer on foot - that wears out, that wears out – One kilometer on foot - that wears out all our shoes. [refrain:] one ki- kilo-, one ki- kilo-, one ki-kilometer, one ki- kilo-, one ki- kilo-, kilometer on foot.

[and then shout out a count up to two, and substitute the word “two” for “one” in the next verse; and so forth until you’re shouting out a count in between verses up to a ridiculously high number]

It really does make a few miles go by relatively painlessly … except, of course, for those who are the first to develop headaches from it …

I have seen this particular strip I don’t know how many times in my life. And I still burst out laughing whenever I see it.

Well, I really just came to flag the spammer, but the strip (and songs) bring back a lot of fond memories …

keltii said

” I’m Henry the 8th I am, … hehe

That’s: ” I’m Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am, I got married to the widow next door, she’s been married 7 times before, and every one was an Henry, wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam I’m her eighth old man, I’m Henry, Henry the 8th I am 2nd verse same as the first! …” ☺

or try: “nobody likes me, everybody hates, guess O go & eat some worms. Big fat juicy ones, little bitty wriggly ones …”

i love that song!!

Fish heads! Fish heads! Roly poly fish heads! Fish heads! Fish heads! Eat them up, YUM!

So THIS is how Justin Beiber’s career began.