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ODE TO THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK
OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE
OH GRANNY SHE'S GOT THE FLIVER, SHE'S HEADING FOR THE RIVER
OLD BLUE
OLD CY AND I TO THE CIRCUS DID GO
OLD  FAMILY TOOTHBRUSH
OLE DEVIL JUMPED OUT OF THE HAYMOW

ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI
ONCE I HAD AN OLD COON DOG (Someone Stole My Old Coon Dog, see Kicking Mule on “K” page, too)
ONE DAY IN LATE NOVEMBER (see THE PIG GOT UP AND SLOWLY WALKED AWAY on the “P” page)
OUT UPON THE PRAIRIE (listed as “Grandmother’s Song” on “G” page)


ODE TO THE LITTLE BROWN SHACK

From Harold H. Do you have the music for the song called, "Ode to the Little Brown Shack"? It's a song about a outhouse and the health department saying they had to tear it down.

A: From Billy Ed Wheeler  Ode to the Little Brown Shack

They past (sic) an ordinance in the town
Said we'd have to tear it down
That little brown shack out back so dear to me
Though the health department said
It's day was over and dead
It will stand forever in my memory

Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
Don't let 'em tear that little brown building down
There's not another like it in the country or the town

It was not too long ago
That I went tripping through the snow
Out to that house behind my old hound dog
Where I'd sit me down to rest
Like a snow bird on her nest
And read the Sears and Roebuck catalog

I would hum a happy tune
Peeping through the quarter moon
Just like my Pappy's kin had done before
It was in that quiet pot
Daily cares could be forgot
And it gave the same relief to rich and poor

It was not a castle fair
I could build my future there
Build castles to the yellow jacket's drone
I could orbit round the sun
Fight with General Washington