TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Tell Me a Story" by Frankie Laine and Jimmy Boyd

SKIPNOTE: For the next few weeks (three, unless I think of any more), I've decided I'm going to indulge myself a bit and offer up a few of the songs I used to know and sing when I was just a little Skip (Pre-Skip? Skip 1.0?). This is one of them. To be honest, I don't think I ever actually listened to any of the original songs before looking them up for these posts; I just sang the lyrics that the people I learned them from sang.  Good memories, this.

Tell Me a Story

[Junior:]

Tell me a story, tell me a story

Tell me a story, remember what you said

You promised me you said you would

You got to give in so I'll be good

Tell me a story, then I'll go to bed

[Father:]

Oh, worry, worry, weary ends my day

Comes the time to go home without my raise in pay

Home by the fire where a man can just relax

Slippers there by the chair, not a worry, not a care

Along comes Junior swinging his little axe

[Junior:]

Tell me a story, tell me a story

Tell me a story, remember what you said

Tell me about the birds and bees

How do you make a chicken sneeze

Tell me a story, then I'll go to bed

[Father:]

Came home so late one evening last July

Played a little poker the time had passed me by

Shoes in my hand and my darlin' wife in bed

Up the stairs sayin' a prayer

Then a voice comes through the air...

[Junior:]

Hi you there, Daddy

Remember what you said

[Junior:]

Tell me a story, tell me a story

Tell me a story, remember what you said

Tell me how your eye got black

Because the doorway hit your back

Tell me a story, then I'll go to bed

[Father:]

Once upon a time I remember long ago

[Junior:]

Don't go back in history

Your memory's kinda slow

[Father:]

Stop your noisy talkin'

Until I finish with my tale

Once upon a...

[Junior:]

Upon a what...

[Father:]

Upon your back you'll get a swat

[Junior:]

Tell me about the fish you caught

That's was bigger than a whale

[Junior:]

Tell me a story, tell me a story

Tell me a story, remember what you said

You promised me, you said you would

You gotta give in so I'll be good

[Father:]

Here's a tale you'll never forget

[Tap, tap, tap]

[Junior:]

Ouch

My tails all red

[Father:]

And now get up to bed

[Junior:]

Ha, ha come on Daddy

Tell me a story

Hee, hee