Thanks for the romp down Memory Lane! My dad used to sing this to us in the late 40's; I don't remember most of the verses above. However, my dad had two more verses which don't appear in this version: Four o'clock in the morning, I looked up on the wall -- The cockroaches and the bedbugs were having a game of ball. The score was nine to nothin'; the roaches were ahead -- The bedbugs hit a home run and knocked me out of bed! [chorus] Six o'clock in the morning, breakfast comes around; The holes in the donuts are very big and round. The coffee's like tobacco juice; the bread is hard and stale, And that's what they feed you in this good ol' county jail. [chorus]
Now we play baseball once a week and you should see the score every player who steals a base he stolen things before there's lots of folks would like to come and see us when we play but they built a wall around the place to keep the crowds away
My mom used to sing the first verse you mentioned above and a similar chorus --she was born in 1920 and she had known it as a kid, so I'm thinking it was probably a folk song before being made into a commercial song by the writers above.
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First time I ever heard this one; hilarious!!
Thanks for the romp down Memory Lane! My dad used to sing this to us in the late 40's; I don't remember most of the verses above. However, my dad had two more verses which don't appear in this version:
Four o'clock in the morning, I looked up on the wall --
The cockroaches and the bedbugs were having a game of ball.
The score was nine to nothin'; the roaches were ahead --
The bedbugs hit a home run and knocked me out of bed!
[chorus]
Six o'clock in the morning, breakfast comes around;
The holes in the donuts are very big and round.
The coffee's like tobacco juice; the bread is hard and stale,
And that's what they feed you in this good ol' county jail.
[chorus]
I like those verses, hadn't heard them before. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed!
Now we play baseball once a week and you should see the score every player who steals a base he stolen things before there's lots of folks would like to come and see us when we play but they built a wall around the place to keep the crowds away
My mom used to sing the first verse you mentioned above and a similar chorus --she was born in 1920 and she had known it as a kid, so I'm thinking it was probably a folk song before being made into a commercial song by the writers above.
My dad used to sing this in the 50s - just curious to see if I could find it
Greetings! I have Parts 1 and 2 of this title on a VARSITY disc (from CROWN masters) by Fields and Hall themselves.
my dads song