girl in blue                 PrimoDonna
                                                                               
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thoughts about the present,

                                                             
and hopes for the future

Boom, boom!

posted Wednesday, 14 March 2007

I learned the following song sometime during college.  I later "sang" it to my children, and now I sing it to my granddaughters.  I've put the word "sang" in quotes because I can't really sing.  My children and grandchildren have never complained.  I guess they have been too nice to say anything or they don't care that I can't.  According to the Internet, I've been using the wrong words in the verses, but that's okay. 

Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Silly, foolish all day long,
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!

I had a little chick.  She wouldn't lay an egg.
I poured hot water up and down her legs.
The little chick cried, the little chick begged,
The little chick laid a hard-boiled egg!

Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Silly, foolish all day long,
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!

Now way down South, where nobody goes,
A flea stepped on an elephant's toe.
The elephant cried, "Wow, wee, wow, woe!
Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?!"

Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Silly, foolish all day long,
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!

This last verse, I don't sing to them. 

I like me, I like me, I like me so,
I
 took myself to the picture show.
I sat myself on the very front row,
I put my arm around myself.
I got so fresh, I slapped my face!

Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!
Silly, foolish all day long,
Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy!

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I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
I will be glad and rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
Psalm 9:1-2