Go Get The Ax. There's A Flea In Lizzie's Ear!

[Elizabelle]

I've been singing GO GET THE AX my entire life, and this is the first time I put and two together!

[stuartwsa]

Bugs Bunny sings that in one of the Looney Tunes, while accompanying himself on the banjo. Is that a genuine old song from Lizzie's era, or something written by Carl Stalling for the Warner Bros. music department?

[mbhenty]

You know Stuartwsa: Many of those old cartoons were ingenious. They were really geared towards adults. Of course that approach is lost today. One of the last such programs were the skits done on Seseme street. My favorite being the Cookie Monster playing Alistair Cook.

Did you know that Joe Raposo who wrote the music on Seseme Street was from Fall River.

I took Violin lessons from His father when I was a kid. (which I still am?)

[Harry]

Yikes! Here's the words:

http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/g002.html

Well, Lizzie always said she had the "fleas" at the time.

[Bob Gutowski]

Oh! memories, memories! Does Bug actually sing, though, "Go get an axe, there's a fly on Lizzie's ear?" A variant, in other words?

[Elizabelle]

Here is the link with lyrics and music! The entire site is a blast...

http://www.contemplator.com/england/gogetax.html

Go Get The Ax!

Peepin' through the knot-hole
of grandpa's wooden leg,
Who'll wind the clock when I'm gone?
Go get the ax
There's a flea in Lizzie's ear,
For a boy's best friend is his mother.

Peepin' through the knot-hole
of grandpa's wooden leg,
Why do they build the shore so near the ocean?
Who cut the sleeves
Out of dear old daddy's vest,
And dug up Fido's bones to build the sewer?

A horsey stood around,
With his feet upon the ground,
Oh, who will wind the clock when I'm gone?
Go get the ax,
There's a fly on Lizzie's ear,
But a boy's best friend is his mother.

I fell from a window,
A second-story window,
I caught my eyebrow on the window-sill.
The cellar is behind the door,
Mary's room is behind the ax,
But a boy's best friend is his mother.



The Horses Run Around

The horses run around,
Their feet are on the ground,
Oh, who will wind the clocks when I'm away, away?
Go get the ax,
There's a fly on the baby's chest
And a boy's best friend is his mother, his mother.

While peeping through a knot-hole
In grandpa's wooden leg,
Oh, who has put the shore so near the ocean, the ocean?
Go get the Listerine, sister's got a beau
and Grandma's false teeth will soon fit Jenny, fit Jenny.

While walking in the moonlight,
The bright and sunny moonlight
She kissed me in the eye with a tomato, tomato
A snake's belt slips because he has no hips
So he wears his neck tie around his middle, his middle.