Allan Sherman - Ringo

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  1. Snipe said:

    Question Allan Sherman - Ringo

    In the mid 60s, Allan Sherman did a parody of the ballad "Ringo" which was sung by Lorne Greene. I have never been able to find the Allan Sherman version, the first verse which was:

    "He sat me down in the desert sand with a comb and scissors in his hand,

    As he cut my hair he said, I’m the best, the fastest barber in the West.

    I asked him where he went to school and he said, I studied in Liverpool,

    I met four kids called the Beatles there and I’d give my life to cut the hair of ---

    RINGO Ringo Ringo"

    I can't find the song anywhere. Perhaps the owners of the Lorne Greene version brought legal action to stop it. I don't know.

    Has anyone ever heard of Allen Sherman's version?
     
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    Ringo (Parody of Ringo) by Allan Sherman.

    He sat me down in the desert sand
    With a comb and scissors in his hand.
    As he cut my hair, he said, "I'm the best
    And fastest barber in the West."
    I asked him where he'd gone to school.
    He said "I studied in Liverpool.
    I met four kids called the Beatles there
    And I gave my life just to cut the hair
    Of Ringo" (Ringo Ringo)

    I met him next in the old Town Square.
    A voice was calling numbers there.
    The crowd was tense, listening hard.
    Each one had some beans and a card.
    A voice called five, and then fourteen.
    They covered each number with a lima bean.
    Five beans in a row means a bullet in the head,
    'Cause way out west you could end up dead
    Playing Bingo. (Bingo Bingo)

    Later that day, about high noon,
    I saw him walk into the town saloon.
    With a dance call girl they call "Callquet."
    Looked to me like he was getting
    Stink-o. (Stink-o Stink-o)
    He was laughing and having so much fun,
    You'd have thought he was watching an old re-run
    Of Bilko. (Bilko Bilko)

    Then he went to the jukebox feeling jolly,
    Put on a record of "Hello Dolly"
    By Satchbo. (Satchbo Satchbo)
    He said, "I look soft, but underneath
    I'm so tough I brush my teeth
    With Brillo" (Brillo Brillo)
    Well I looked in his glass to see what he had.
    What booze could drive a man so mad?
    But there was no booze in his glass at all.
    Just ice cream...The kind they call
    Pistachio. (Pistachio Pistachio)

    Pistachio must be dynamite,
    'Cause he left for Liverpool that night.
    But destiny had called him there
    And he had to cut that Ringo's hair.
    But something went wrong, as I reckon you know,
    If you saw the news not long ago.
    'Cause that barber became a pistachio nut,
    And he plum forgot what he went there to cut.
    They sent this cable-gram collect to me:
    "Guess who performed that tonsillectomy
    On Ringo." (Ringo Ringo Ringo Ringo)
    Last edited by F A B Scott; 05-17-2007 at 07:55 AM. Reason: Add artist name.