Burl Ives - Singer, Actor, Star
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BURL IVES - SINGER, ACTOR, STAR
Burl Ives, 85, a 20th-century minstrel and balladeer who brought new life and popularity to some of America's oldest folk music with songs of children, history, animals, insects and loves won and lost, died of complications related to cancer of the mouth April 14 at his home in Anacortes, Wash.
Singer - It Was Meant To Be
He recalled (in a 1990 interview in The Decatur Herald and Review) college President, Dr. Livingston Lord, looking at his grades and telling him, "'I believe you have too restless a spirit to be an educator. You'd better look around a little.' My clothes and things were in the fraternity house, but I didn't want to bother with them. I just went down the road."
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EATING GOOBER PEAS
Sitting by the roadside on a summer's day
Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away
Lying in the shadows underneath the trees
Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
When a horse-man passes, the soldiers have a rule
To cry out their loudest, "Mister, here's your mule!"
But another custom, enchanting-er than these
Is wearing out your grinders, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
Just before the battle, the General hears a row
He says "The Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now."
He looks down the roadway, and what d'ya think he sees?
The Georgia Militia cracking goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
I think my song has lasted just about enough.
The subject is interesting, but the rhymes are mighty rough.
I wish the war was over, so free from rags and fleas
We'd kiss our wives and sweethearts, say good-bye to goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
Sitting by the roadside on a summer's day
Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away
Lying in the shadows underneath the trees
Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
When a horse-man passes, the soldiers have a rule
To cry out their loudest, "Mister, here's your mule!"
But another custom, enchanting-er than these
Is wearing out your grinders, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
Just before the battle, the General hears a row
He says "The Yanks are coming, I hear their rifles now."
He looks down the roadway, and what d'ya think he sees?
The Georgia Militia cracking goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
I think my song has lasted just about enough.
The subject is interesting, but the rhymes are mighty rough.
I wish the war was over, so free from rags and fleas
We'd kiss our wives and sweethearts, say good-bye to goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
- Burl Ives International Web Site
- Get all the facts on Burl here.
- The Songs We Sing
- Great collections of lyrics to folk songs.
- Online Printable Sheet Music
- Lots of printable songs.
- Digital Librarian
- Great finds here.
“Burl Ives won an Academy Award in 1959 for his role in 'The Big Country'.”
Burl Ives - Actor
Classic Movies
Biography* Biography for Burl Ives
* All-Movie Guide: Burl Ives
* Burl Ives Biography - Biography.com
* Great Character Actors
* Burl Ives
* Burl Ives - NNDB
* Burl Ives - Infoplease.com
* Prisma - Burl Ives (german)
* Burl Ives (italian)
Filmography
* Burl Ives
* Burl Ives - IBDB
* All-Movie Guide: Burl Ives
* Burl Ives - TVGuide.com
* Burl Ives Film Biography - Time Out
* Burl Ives - Channel 4 Film
* MGM.com - Burl Ives
* Burl Ives (french)
* kataweb cinema - Burl Ives (italian)
* Cine Players - Perfis - Burl Ives (portuguese)
Moments from Great Movies
* East of Eden (1955)
* Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Burl Ives continued
THE DONUT SONG
Written by Burl Ives
Burl Ives - The Donut Songcho: When you walk the streets you'll have no cares
If you walk the lines and not the squares
As you go through life make this your goal
Watch the donut, not the hole.
It's written on the rainbow, in letters made of gold
Written on the rainbow, there's wisdom to behold
My friend the little sparrow flew
Close enough to see
Written on a rainbow is this philosophy.
(Repeat verse)
Little angels wrote it, so folks on earth would know
(Repeat Chorus two times)
I'm off to jolly England where
Bulldogs all wear pants
Off to Pago Pago where alligators dance
My friend the little sparrow will
Take me where he flies
Even to the rainbow to read with my own eyes
(Chorus) (Repeat First Verse)
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How appropriate! He loved his country.
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d-artist Jun 18, 2011 @ 2:40 pm | delete
- Nice tribute to Burl Ives...On my American side I am related to the Ives line that Burl Ives is from...My grandmother Georgianna Ives was from the clock-makers side of the family.
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kab
Sep 2, 2009 @ 6:16 pm | delete
- When I hear "Burl Ives", I hear him singing the Ugly Bug Ball.
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kab
Sep 2, 2009 @ 6:16 pm | delete
- When I hear "Burl Ives", I hear him singing the Ugly Bug Ball.
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OhMe Aug 31, 2009 @ 10:01 am | delete
- I love the song "Eating Goober Peas" and did not realize that he wrote it. Great lens about Burl Ives. I enjoyed the Frosty the Snowman video,too!
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