It’s an Amaze-ing Words Wednesday special! I had an interesting comments conversation with Jenny Hansen of the More Cowbell blog on Natalie Hartford’s Life Out Loud blog. Following my comment about the blog post itself…
Julie, if they let ME teach Sunday School (and they do), I assure you they will always let you sit in the front row at church.
And do you really see Lone Star beer cans in your roadside armadillos??! That means the road killer would have to stop the car and put said can in the paws of the road killee. Am I the only one who finds that bizarre?
Yep, we had a menagerie of maniacal laughter over here – naked armadillos and Bengal Tigers!
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Julie Glover says:
LOL. You know my comment was in good fun, Jenny!
I have seen pics of the armadillo & Lone Star can. It’s a college student prank apparently to find a dead armadillo on the drive home and pay your respects to his drunken demise.
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Well, we tipped cows at Mizzou, so I guess I can’t make fun of the armadillo stagers.
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Do you know the “peel the banana” song that has a cow-tipping verse?
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No!!! Links? Video? Lyrics…give me something here, girlfriend! Enquiring minds MUST know.
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Sending you a link on Twitter. And just for you, Jenny, I’m considering an instructional vlog post to teach this very important musical number. Would you shake your cowbell for me if I did it?
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OF COURSE I would!!!
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Natalie Hartford says:
I am so moving to Texas someday! LOL!!!
Another victim of
Crossing the Highway while IntoxicatedAlthough I would heartily welcome visitors to my wonderful Lone Star State, I didn’t want you to have to wait to find out what you need to know about armadillos, cow-tipping, and silly worded songs I learned at camp.
Yes, church camp.
As you know, I think one of the funnest things we can do with words is use them for humor. Word plays, curious idioms, and funny lyrics pique my interest. Some of you may remember songs with silly words like Little Bunny Foo-Foo or Baby Bumblebee. I don’t recall these from camp, but we did sing the Green Grass Grows All Around and the following diddy I haven’t heard anyone else sing:
Ung-awa, ung-awa, ung-awa
Ung-awa, ung-awa, ung-awa
Ung-awa-waNow we’re from Nairobi
Our team is the best
We play the Watoosies
They’re seven feet tallLike cannibals, they’ll eat us
But they’ll never beat us
‘Cause we’re from Nairobi
And we’re on the ballSingin’ ung-awa, ung-awa, ung-awa
Ung-awa, ung-awa, ung-awa
Ung-awa-waIn fact, when I have sung it as an example, I get strange looks. Doesn’t anyone else know this song? It’s a funny rhyme: eat us/beat us. And who doesn’t like a song with the word “cannibal” in it?
But that isn’t what I promised here. I promised a silly-worded song with a cow-tipping verse. So without further ado (get out your cowbells, Jenny et al.), here is The Banana Song:
Do you enjoy silly songs? What are some of your favorite camp lyrics? Please share!
Oh My God…
I don’t know what to say. I’m glad no one came by my computer and asked me what the HECK I was watching. I didn’t truly start howling until the “pop the corn” verse but the best was the guacamole and the tipping of the cow. You are so cute, Julie. Truly, I enjoyed it. HAAAAAAA
Ha ha, Patti! This is what happens when I work in children’s ministry and get too comfortable about making a fool of myself for the fun of it.
LOL supposedly people went cow-tipping around here, but we don’t have armadillos in Ohio. That’s hilarious about the beers! We sung tons of fun songs at 4-H camp, and now I can’t remember a one (could be the beer I drank with dinner LOL).
No armadillos in Ohio??? I must ask my native-Ohioan mother about this anomaly! I’ve never tipped a cow, but I have seen my share of them living in Texas. We definitely had an active 4-H too, but I wasn’t a member.
Hysterical, Julie! Do you remember the giant armadillo beer commericials? Great song!
OK. It’s past my bedtime if I can’t spell commercials already!
I love how there are so many different versions of the same song! I do the banana song but with various bits: peel, chop, eat, smash, kick, go! With my Chinese students (where I have to explain the meaning of “go bananas!” and Scouts back home. Hilarious!
You know, I had had never heard of the armadillo beer can thing. And I’d never heard the Banana Song. How weird on all counts.
Really, Catie? I thought the beer can/armadillo thing was pretty well-known around Texas. I guess it’s this rowdy bunch I run with! :/ LOL.
I would definitely say it has to do with the company you keep.
Awesome.
ROFL!!! That is awesome Julie…LOVE IT!!!
And I adore the armadillo. OMG fabulous!!!
Thanks for the UBER shout out. Girl…YOU ROCK!
LMAO, Julie. I honestly laughed out loud reading this. Will have to share with Grace when she gets home. Thanks for the laugh:)
That’s it! Julie’s gone rampant with vlogging! Someone tie her down! LOL
That was awesome!! I’ll be thinking of you tonight when I make the guacamole
and I think the last part of the mullet section should be changed to cut the mullet, cut, cut the mullet, lol. You are the cutest, Julie.
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