"Turkey Lurkey Time" question

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 9:22am

In the second verse, what exactly are the lyrics? Every place I've seen them lists them as "It's loosey goosey time," but every version I've heard sounds like they are singing something like "It's goosey poosey time." Does anyone know the actual lyric?

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:13am

Curtesy of google search...

It's turkey lurkey time
Tom turkey ran away, but he just came home
It's turkey lurkey time
He's really home to stay, never one to roam
Let's make a wish, and may all our wishes come true.......
A snowy, blowy christmas, a mistletoey christmas
A turkey lurkey christmas to you...
A turkey lurkey christmas to you
It's loosey goosey time
She was a gadabout, but she's back again
It's loosey goosey time
Her time is running out, and we all know when
Let's make a wish, and may all our wishes come true....
A snowy, blowy christmas, a mistletoey christmas
A loosey goosey christmas to you...
A loosey goosey christmas to you
Turkey lurkey, loosey goosey
Some for uncle joe, some for cousin lucy
Everybody gather round the table
Dig in, dinner is being served
Eat all the turkey you are able
Can't you see a partridge in a pear tree?
Climb up and bring it down for me
That's something i would like to see
A snowy, blowy christmas, a mistletoey christmas
A turkey lurkey christmas to you......
Jingle bells, jingle bells

[alterego]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:15am

The published lyric I have reads:

It's Goosey Poosey time
She was a gadabout but she's back again
It's Goosey Poosey time
Her time is running out and we all know when.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:23am

Thank you, alterego, for the courtesy.

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 10:23 AM

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:26am

Woah, I've never know the lyrics to this song, and I basically just sing it however I think it sounds. Lots of made up words...but that's not very different from the original song anyway.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:52am

Turkey Lurkey and Goosey Poosey are characters from the English fairy tale called "Chicken Little."

That's where they came from, folks. Not just out of a giant cup o' crazy.

Other characters in the story:

Henny-Penny
Cocky-Locky
Ducky-Daddles
Foxy-Woxy

Surely you all weren't raised by wolves, and remember the story about Chicken Little running around thinking the sky was falling...

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 10:59am

I remember Henny and Foxy, but not Goosey Poosey. Thanks B12B!

A curtsy for you, too!

[jordangirl]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:08am

Wow... I guess it got Americanized to Goosey Loosey. Thay's what it is in the book in my classroom.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:09am

*curtsies back to Kringas*

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:11am

I also remember the episode of The Golden Girls where the girls did some sort of Chicken Little play.

"A piece of the sky, just fell on my head..."

[Jon]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:19am

...or you should at least remember Chicken Little from either the recent Disney movie... or his stint on American Idol

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:34pm

GYPSY1527 should have known those lyrics were incorrect. They don't even include the "Ba pa pa ba pa ba ba ba" part.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:48pm

Cocky-Locky? Hmmmm

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 12:59pm

Cocky-Locky could REALLY make everyone feel that the sky was falling, Sueleen.


Or so I've heard.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:01pm

A snowy, blowy Christmas to YOU!

[Calvin]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:02pm

Ducky-Daddles? I think I'll pass on THAT piece of foie gras, thank you very much.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:04pm

Calvin, what's the next lyric after "A piece of the sky just fell on my head"? Is it "the wherefore and why are best left unsaid" or did I imagine that?

[Calvin]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:08pm

I believe it is, at least on one of the verses. Not the one George Hearn sings, of course.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 1:38pm

I think Betsy Wetsy was in this too.

Or Harry Carey... or was it Carol Merrill?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 2:33pm

Don't get TOO worried about the lyrics. I seem to remember that when I saw the original show, there were a few slips in the words. The girls onstage and below stage were singing at the same time and who the hell cared? Watching those three girls (Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee and Margo Sappington) dominate the stage during that number is still one of the strong memories of my theatre going youth.

And they were totally, utterly winded by the end of the number. We were sitting upfront and the entire cast was panting like a pack of dogs during the applause.

I also remember how thin they all were. I mean Nicole Ritchie thin and that included the guys.

Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:28pm

i wish i could go in a time machine & draw them all.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:31pm

I wish I could join you and get dropped off in 1971!

[mymother_thequeen]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:41pm

They don't actually have set lyrics, I've figured out. Each time they do the number they just make up the words.

Probably.

[wiggum2]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 4:44pm

I also remember the episode of The Golden Girls where the girls did some sort of Chicken Little play.

"A piece of the sky, just fell on my head..."


George Hearn was in that episode also!

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/13/07 at 5:15pm

Oh, Calvin. It's like you really are invisible.