The Silly Song, 1938
From Disney’s production “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Words by Larry Morey.
Music by Frank Churchill.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Ho-la-la-ee-ay, Ho-la-la-ee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay-ee-la-ee-ay-ee-lee-ay
Ho-la-la-ee-ay, Ho-la-la-ee-ay
Ho-la-la-lee-ay-lee-la-lee-ay-lee-o-lee-ay
- I’d like to dance and tap my feet
But they won’t keep in rhythm
You see I washed them both today
And I can’t do nothin’ with them
Chorus
Ho hum, the tune is dumb
The words don’t mean a thing
Isn’t this a silly song
For anyone t’ sing
- The minute after I was born
I didn’t have a nightie
So I tied my whiskers ’round my legs
And used them for a didie - I chased a polecat up a tree
Way out upon a limb
An’ when he got the best o’ me
I got the worst o him - We used to have a billy goat
We had him disinfected
He could have slep’ in Grumpy’s bed
But the billy goat objected
Sung here by Vancha March: