Lizzie song

[Harry]

This is about the strangest site yet . It's a Quick Time movie by a musical (and I use the word musical VERY loosely) group called The Dolomites.

http://www.dolomitesmell.com/video.html

If you understand any of it, including about 90% of the words, they have a room waiting for you at the Taunton Asylum. Occasionly you'll catch Lizzie's name being mentioned.

[Kat]

You can call the Taunton wagon because I thought that was Great! Thanks Har!
I caught the name "Lizzie Borden", "a minute to 2 a minute to 2 a minute to 2", "the liver was the bit" (just before the color Samauri), and "with eyeballs on the side", and "bibbity-bobbity-boo" (repeated)

[Susan]

Thanks, Harry, actually, its kind of a catchy little tune, though I don't know about the lyrics. I tried to write down what I could catch, sounds like Lizzie is supposed to be a cannibal?

What to do, today, today, its a minute or two to 2:00
A distinctly difficult thing to say, but, hurry theres still to do
There'll be a tattoo at twenty to 2:00 with a rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tattoo
Ol' Sloug will come when he hears a drum, a minute or two to 2:00
Today, a minute or two to 2:00, a minute or two to 2:00, today
Sloug will play the drum

Lizzie-Miss Prissy, was saucy and sassy, and happy and sappy and happy
She took some tacks and then an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
Gave her forty cracks

And when she thought that she was done
She gave her father fortyone at a minute or two to 1:00
A minute or two to 1:00 today, she whacked her father down

Oh Lizzie Borden, full of gore, she always eats the core
When she says she'll make it up, I hurry back for more
You're never sure whats in score, so lock and close the door(s)

So, listen to the sound of, and listen to the sound of Bibbity-bobbity-boo,
Bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo

Father was ugly and stringy and stitchy and filled full of hair
Mother was slimy and smelly and fat and dirty as a matter of fact
But, Lizzie was hungry and what did she spy
the very thing ____ ____ ____ ____ axe
She probably _____ ______ _____
Guess what we're having for tea today, a minute or two to 2:00 today
Guess what we're having for tea

I want it, I want it, I want my new meat, all juicy and spicy and tender and slender, I hope you're not nasty, leaking, crispy, but, luscious, tasty and sizzly, but, luscious, tasty and sizzly, but, luscious, tasty and sizzly

Oh, Lizzie Borden, Queen of Gore, she always eats the core
When she says she'll make it up, I go right back for more
You're never sure whats the score, forever close your doors

So listen to the sound of, listen to the sound of, bibbity-bobbity-boo
bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo
____ _____ she slices ya', she got him in his head
She ____ in the clean, but her bill is dripping red
She picked it up, she got an axe, she mixed up all the rest
But when she cut him up, the middle of the liver was the best
the liver was the best, the liver was the best

She tried it _____, she tried it hot, she even tried it fried
But best of all was casserole, with eyeballs on the side
At a minute or two to 2:00 today, a minute or two to 2:00
A minute or two to 2:00, a minute or two to 2:00 today
With eyeballs on the side, with eyeballs on the side, with eyeballs on the side

Lizzie Borden, Queen of Gore, she always eats the core
When she says she'll make it up, I come right back for more
You're never sure whats the score, forever close your doors

So listen to the sound of, listen to the sound of, bibbity-bobbity-boo
bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo, bibbity-bobbity-boo

[Kat]

Wow! Thank you both! My Gawd poor Susan I bet you had to go thru that song a dozen times! It's probably eating away at your brain this very minute! AHHHHGGGG


Actually, the tune sounds Elizabethan or Tudor-ish. I played it this morning after I got up while I was in the kitchen.

[Susan]

Actually, I only had to listen to a couple of areas over and over. I may be off in some of what I put down, but, thats the gist, Lizzie kills her parents and then eats her father's liver. That would be a new twist to the Borden murders, Andrew and Abby axed to death and half eaten. Yuck!

For some reason it brings to mind an old Alfred Hitchcock episode starring a very young Barbara Bel Geddes as a woman who murders her husband with a frozen leg of mutton and then throws it in the oven to cook. She goes to the neighbors house to make an alibi for herself. By the time she gets home and the police come to the house, the mutton is done. She serves it to the police officers, no more murder weapon.

[RonRico]

I remember hearing that Chad Mitchell Trio (I know, Who?) song of the very early 60s "The Ballad of Lizzie Borden" on the radio every day for a time. So many times in fact that I can still remember the lyrics. I remember my mother telling me about the crime and the little ditty she used for jumping rope. My God Lizzie died only 19 years before I was born and Bridget Sullivan was still alive 2 years after my birth. It isn't really all that remote an event.

[Kat]

Stafani played that Chad Mitchell Trio song at her lecture. I sang it for 3 more days after that!
I got up today singing it too because I've been given 2 more versions of it!

[Kat]

Ooo-Oooo-Oooo-
I found the Dolomites song verses!
Thanks Susan!!!

[Kat]

I was looking for something else of course...

[Susan]

Thanks for finding that again, Kat. Still an interesting song.

[Harry]

Susan, even after all this time I am still impressed you were able to translate those words. Sharp ears.

Now, if we can only get you to write something for the Hatchet.

[Kat]

Yay Susan!