Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 03, 2022

As sung by a true grill pro.

The last verse, and it is.

Looked it up and here are the boring details. Parodies of Sousa’s lyrics of 1896 started showing up in the ‘30s on college campuses and in the ’40s at USO performances. First recording I found of Arlo’s particular version was by Mitch Miller in the ’50s. It of course was a regular feature on Sing Along With Mitch.

One interesting tidbit, according to an article in Wikipedia: "In show business, particularly theater and the circus, this piece is called “the Disaster March”. It is a traditional code signaling a life-threatening emergency. This helps theater personnel to handle events and organize the audience’s exit without panic."

Wait until a flying rat takes wing with your dinner

Well, thank goodness it wasn’t the lyrics to Blaze Away that most of us know.

Don’t step on ants. Those ants maybe somebody’s uncle.

Ok…. Hmmmm ……. Anyone rather talk about women’s under garments some more?

and now it’s stuck in my head! Aaarg!

My dad used to sing that song to us sooo many years ago.

If you feel like hearing some modern marches, enter “John Bosserman marches” into a search engine. He didn’t begin writing marches until his late sixties or seventies. He has also led an interesting life: http://www.soundsofsousa.com/reading-band—-composer-john-bosserman

60 years of manning the BBQ and never once have I ever used a thermometer. How did I live this long eating food that was not pierced by a meat prong?

It’s actually the music of “Star and Stripes Forever”. I had the Mitch Miller album it was on as a kid and played it til the track was wrecked. It repeated the chorus ending in “Well it isn’t” a few times and then “You may think that this is the end, well it IS!”

I remember singing that as a kid.

https://youtu.be/u4qFP8WjWK4

Further trivia: Sousa wrote this AFTER his stint as Marine Band Leader, and did not compose it while on American land.

Salute to you Jimmy J on this glorious Independence Day weekend! 8^ )

Is Arlo saying my mother was a DUCK?

Yes it is! ;o}

The good ole American hot dog!

The music is Stars and Stripes Forever

Never give up! Never surrender! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=never+give+up+never+surrender&view=detail&mid=41C37C230EE174988D6D41C37C230EE174988D6D&FORM=VIRE

What song is the national anthem based on?Although Francis Scott Key penned the words in 1814 during the War of 1812, the melody is actually much older. It’s based off an 18th-century British pub song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.” That’s right: a song to be sung whilst drunk.

Tell that to the remnants of the Lemurian Civilization…..

okay, who else had to sing along with this as you read it? ;-)

Hah. Jimmy got everyone to look up the lyrics.

Sing Along With Mitch. Nothing scholarly. It was just fun. Lots of people do not understand the concept of Fun.

Thanks a lot ! That song will be in my head ALL Day !

Two of my horrors of Saturday night TV with my parents as a preteen was to have to watch Sing A Long With Mitch, and some other show where the host had an accent and at the end we had to watch Bobby and some girl dance! I remember that “an a 1 an a 2….”

Swamp and damp don’t rhyme.

As a member of our school band, I went and saw the Marine Band almost every year. They played Stars and Stripes forever, and a lot of the John Phillips Sousa’s marches. There are a LOT of them!

Be kind to your web-footed friendsFor that duck may be somebody’s mother,She lives in a nest in a swampWhere the weather is always damp.

You may think that this is the end,Well it is, but to prove we’re all liars,We’re going to sing it again,Only this time we’ll sing a little higher.

Is that some song Arlo is singing? I’ve never hear of it and I was born in the 50’s.

I associate those lyrics with the Pogo comic strip.

As a little kid, my mother sang this to me, and I thought those were the actual lyrics until later in life but it was too late to get them UN-stuck in my mind. Throughout all that time, I thought what an odd way it was to end the song.

“Hurrah for the flag of the free;

Let it wave as our standard forever;

Tthe gem of the land and the sea,

Bright banner proud and true!

Let despots remember the day

When our fathers with mighty endeavor

Proclaimed as they marched to the fray

That by their might, that my their right it waves forever.”

I think it was the Tennessee Ernie Ford show where they sang that a lot. But they sang the 2nd line “Be kind to your friend in the swamp, He’s a dilly, through and through.”

The Red Menace hasn’t won though they have not stopped yet.

Remember Mitch Miller ending his TV show with this.

No, it’s NOT over. The Republic will survive, and prosper.