searcching for a poem and it's origins

[milkshake]

who wrote "spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies iz..." etc and where can I find the whole poem??

[Cetti]

I expect that it's just one of those nonsense poems for children. I couldn't find an author but I did find the exact words my Mum used to say to me over and over.... Spring is sprung, Duh grass is riz; I wonder where dem boidies is? Dey say duh boid is on duh wing: But dat�s absoid! Duh wing is on duh boid!

[milkshake]

Hi Cetti, many thanks for your input, this is much as I know, but was hoping to discover the 'author'- from yesteryears... in time to send out a fun "happy Spring" mail to all my friends! Tomorrow is the start of Spring where I am in South Africa. Go well, Milkshake.

[bernardo]

That sounds very much like the style of Benjamin Zephaniah.

[bernardo]

A bit of googling found this, by BZ:

Spring is sprung
the grass is riz
I wonder where the boidies is
Lo the boids is on the wing
But dat's absoid
The wings is on the boid

[bernardo]

http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/rhymin.html

has got a few more of his poems. I like the turkey one best.

[bernardo]

Furhter googling found this:
http://www.mareesalbumlyrics.com/Spring_Is_Sprung.html
which says it's by Mike Jackson. (I was sure it was Benjamin Zephaniah?) I'll go and google again.

[bernardo]

Further further googling found references to people remembering it from their childhood in the 1930s and 1940s, which rather bee-uggers up my Benjamin Zephaniah theory, because he was born in 1958. Sorry!

[bernardo]

Further googling says it's by the very famous and prolific poet Anonymous. I'll get my coat...

[milkshake]

Bernado, hey there, so what colour is your coat...just before you go, I mean! Red I suppose(grinning loudly) Thanks for all your efforts, I do know the works of Benjamin Zephaniah, so was puzzled and of course I did much googling prior to coming here,to no avail.Anonymous had to have been real so the search continues... till another time, then :-)

[bernardo]

I have just found it in "The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems" published by the BBC a few years ago. It is listed under the title "Spring in the Bronx" by Anon, so it seems to be a traditional American thingy - it probably has lots of different variations. But I wish it had been BZ, because he's a hoopy frood.

[Sylday]

I always thought it was Ogden Nash, the US poet of nonsense, who definitely wrote - in relation to the art of seduction - "Candy is dandy; but Liquor is quicker.

For a full discussion on the Boidies poem, click here

[milkshake]

Bernado! how industrious you are, many thanks :-)

[bernardo]

My coat? Red? Why red? Have I missed a joke or sometink?

[milkshake]

;-) It was you who said; 'I'll get my coat...'I assumed thus, that you were leaving the 'room',implying that you were blushing! Merely my interpretation. where I'm from a blush or flush has tones of red :-)

[Pashmina]

De little boids is on de wing. Ain't dat absoid! De little wings ison de boid. Ogden Nash

[jeantemple]

From OHIO, the poem goes:
Spring has sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the flowers is.
My father was a quiet man not given to poems but recited this little verse EVERY spring!

[theosnitcher]

i BELIEVE IT COUD HAVE BEEN Samuel Langhorne Clemens (otherwise known as Mark Twain)