
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy!
Silly and foolish the whole day through,
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy!
1.Way down south where bananas grow,
An ant stepped on an elephant’s toe.
The elephant cried with tears in his eyes:
“Why don’t you pick on some-one your size?!”
2. A horse and a flea and three blind mice,
Sitting on a curbstone, shooting dice.
The horse, he slipped and fell on the flea,
“Whoops!” said the flea, “There’s a horse on me!” Refrain
3. Way up north in the ice and snow,
There was a penguin, his name was Joe.
He got so sick of black and white,
He wore pink slacks to the dance last night! Refrain
See also
- Subject: silly
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: chords I IV V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:
- Scale: major
- Source: Wee Sing Silly Songs, Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1982
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1 thought on “Boom Boom! Ain’t it Great it Be Crazy?”
Another verse
I had a little chickee who would lay an egg
So I ran hot water up and down her leg
The little chickee cried, the little chickee begged
The little chickee laid me a hard boiled egg