Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts

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The song "Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts" is a children's public domain playground song popular throughout the United States. Dating back to at least the mid-20th century, the song is sung to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare". The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors through cheerful comedy while allowing children to explore taboo images and words especially as they relate to standards of cleanliness and dining. Many local and regional variations of the lyrics exist, but whatever variant, they always entail extensive use of the literary phonetic device known as an alliteration which helps to provide an amusing description of animal body parts and fluids not normally consumed by Americans.

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Song versions

Smithsonian Folkways version

The song appears on the Smithsonian Folkways compilation release entitled A Fish That's A Song, a collection of traditional public domain children's songs from the United States performed by Mika Seeger. The Smithsonian release appears to be derived from an earlier 1959 release entitled The Sounds Of Camp.

The lyrics performed by Mika Seeger are as follows:

Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat.

French fried flamingo feet.

French fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood

And me without my spoon.

California Version

Great, green gobs of greasy, grimey gopher guts

Marinated monkey meat

French fried parakeet

All wrapped up in fuzzy wuzzy beetle brain

Pass the eyeball soup

And the gravy please!

Texas Version

Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts

Mutilated monkey's meat.

Bitty Baby Birdy feet

French fried eyeballs soaking in a pool of blood,

And me without a spoon

(But there's a straw.....)

We are smarter than you think (well, some)

Michigan Version

Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts

Mutilated Monkey Feet

Chopped Up Baby Parakeet

Great Big Eyeballs Swimming in a Pool of Blood

Gee! I Forgot My Spoon!

Massachusetts Version

Big green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts

Mutilated monkey meat

Little birdy's bloody (var. dirty) feet

All wrapped up in all-purpose porpoise pus

Floating in my pink lemonade

Without a straw

St.Louis Version

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Chopped up parrot feet.

French fried eye balls,

Swimmin' in a pool of blood,

Eat it with out a spoon.

Burp.

Connecticut Version

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Chopped up monkey meat,

Isolated dirty feet,

French fried eyeballs,

And I forgot my spoon.

New York Version

Lyrics of a more extensive version from New York City was in use during the 1990s as follows:

Yankee Doodle went to town a-ridin' on a gopher

Bumped into a garbage can and this is what fell over:

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet.

French-fried eyeballs rolling down the street.

Oops, I forgot my spoon!

So they gave me a split-splat, pus-on-top,

Monkey vomit and camel snot,

All wrapped up in birdie poo,

So eat it, (name), it's good for you!

With vitamin C, and protein too

And don't forget the doggie doo!

Upstate New York version

Recalled from the 1970's is another verse

including "quarts and quarts of all purpose porpoise pus"

Eastern Pennsylvania Version

Great big globs of greasy grimy gopher guts

Mutilated monkey meat

All mixed in with All-Purpose Porpoise Pus

And me without a spoon

(add on line) But with a straw!

Pittsburgh version

The following version was sung in the mid-1950s in the Shadyside and East Liberty neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

dirty little birdy feet,

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

And me without my spoon.

This alternate Pittsburgh version was sung in the 1980s in the Shadyside and East Liberty neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as the eastern suburbs.

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

little dirty birdy feet,

Those are the things that I really like to eat,

And I forgot my spoon.

Another suburban Pittsburgh variant of the song dated near c.2005

Great green globs of gooey, gooey gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Little birdy's dirty feet,

All wrapped up in pickle-pepper porpoise pus,

Sitting in pink lemonade (without a straw).

Washington version

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

constipated camel feet,

mutilated monkey meat,

all bunched up with french fried eyeballs,

and I forgot my spoon!

Georgia version

As made popular by local Atlanta comedian Daniel Weinstein in 1970s

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Chopped up parakeet.

French fried eyeballs,

Rolling down the dirty street,

Oops I forgot my spoon!

Florida Version

Sung in southern Florida circa 1990

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Chopped up dirty birdy feet,

French fried eyeballs,

Rollin' in a bowl of blood,

*Slurp*

Oops I forgot my spoon!

South Florida Version

Sung in South Florida in the 1970s

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Little birdies turdy feet,

All wrapped up in pretty purple porpoise pus,

And me without a straw,

Got a straw? ya

*Slurp*

Blah!

New Jersey version

This version was sung in the 1960s and 70s, in the Livingston area.

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

French fried parakeet,

All mixed together with fuzzy wuzzy beetle brains

That's what we had for lunch.

Northern New Jersey version (circa 1970s)

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Little birdy's dirty feet,

French fried eyeballs floating in a frying pan.

I forgot my spoon,

so give me a scab sandwich with puss on top,

Monkey vomit and camel snot,

elephant eyeballs cut in two,

eat it <name>, it's good for you.

Bizarre Foods America rap version

Bizarre Foods America, a cooking show which began airing in 2012 on cable television's Travel Channel, uses a hip-hop version for its theme song. The rapped lyrics are backed by keyboards and electronically produced drum beats.

Northeast Ohio version circa 1970's-1980's

Great big gobs of greasy, grimey gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Little birdies dirty feet,

French fried eyeballs rolling down the middle of the street,

Somebody find me a spoon.

Northeast Ohio version circa 1990's

Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,

Chewed-up little birdie feet,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Chopped-up eyeballs frying in a frying pan,

And I forgot my spoon.

North Central Illinois version circa 1970's

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Little birdies dirty feet, French fried eyeballs rolling in a hot pan, Thats what I had for lunch today!

Maps Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts

References

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Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts

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