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  • Lyric Request -- Grandma's Lye Soap

    From spfoxx@gmail.com@21:1/5 to RSandvik on Tue Jul 2 01:34:25 2019
    On Tuesday, 26 March 1996 08:00:00 UTC, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are trying to learn the song for a party.

    Thanks

    LIsten to an album called Crazy Guys the original is on there it's called 'In The Book' by Johnny Standledy

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  • From Joseph C. Fineman@21:1/5 to spfoxx@gmail.com on Tue Jul 2 21:30:57 2019
    spfoxx@gmail.com writes:

    On Tuesday, 26 March 1996 08:00:00 UTC, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
    someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
    trying to learn the song for a party.

    Thanks

    LIsten to an album called Crazy Guys the original is on there it's
    called 'In The Book' by Johnny Standledy

    Failing that, see https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2386
    --
    --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

    ||: Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to :||
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  • From Bonnie Fraser@21:1/5 to RSandvik on Sat Jan 28 10:07:34 2023
    On Tuesday, March 26, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
    someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are trying to learn the song for a party.
    Thanks

    "It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to get out their hymnals and began to sing "
    Grandma's Lye Soap". And told them "it's in the book.

    --Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser

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  • From Ian Jackson@21:1/5 to Bonnie Fraser on Wed Feb 1 20:40:56 2023
    In message <e31a561c-da16-4a5b-af14-8be289218d1fn@googlegroups.com>,
    Bonnie Fraser <grandmabonnie33@gmail.com> writes
    On Tuesday, March 26, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
    someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
    trying to learn the song for a party.
    Thanks

    "It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster
    Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang
    at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to
    get out their hymnals and began to sing "Grandma's Lye Soap". And told
    them "it's in the book.

    --Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser

    When I was a youngster (some seventy years ago), one of my friends had
    the record. IIRC, the words started something like this:
    "Let me tell you 'bout Grandma's lye soap,
    Good for everything in the home.
    And the secret was in the spreading,
    It wouldn't sud, it wouldn't foam."
    --
    Ian

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