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searcching for a poem and it's origins
who wrote "spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies iz..." etc and where can I find the whole poem??
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(Tue 12:44 31/Aug/04) 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! | |
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(Tue 15:10 31/Aug/04)
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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.
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(Tue 15:43 31/Aug/04) That sounds very much like the style of Benjamin Zephaniah. | |
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(Tue 15:48 31/Aug/04)
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 |
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(Tue 15:53 31/Aug/04)
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/rhymin.html has got a few more of his poems. I like the turkey one best. |
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(Tue 16:01 31/Aug/04)
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. |
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(Tue 16:07 31/Aug/04) 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! | |
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(Tue 16:09 31/Aug/04) Further googling says it's by the very famous and prolific poet Anonymous. I'll get my coat... | |
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(Tue 16:14 31/Aug/04)
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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 :-)
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(Tue 17:14 31/Aug/04) 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. | |
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(Tue 18:52 31/Aug/04)
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 |
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(Tue 19:44 31/Aug/04)
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Bernado! how industrious you are, many thanks :-)
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(Wed 01:42 01/Sep/04) My coat? Red? Why red? Have I missed a joke or sometink? | |
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(Wed 06:46 01/Sep/04)
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;-) 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 :-)
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(Sun 16:14 26/Sep/04) De little boids is on de wing. Ain't dat absoid! De little wings ison de boid. Ogden Nash | |
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(Sun 19:56 29/Apr/07)
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! |
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