Talk:Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts

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See Articles for deletion/The Diarrhea Song for consensus on having this kind of thing. Brian G. Crawford 19:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Brian, there is a lot more printed information about Greasy, Grimy, Gopher Guts than there is on The Diarrhea Song. I will expand this "Gopher Guts" article with many more references when I have the time. John Mehlberg 15:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

How about writing up a basic framework for the lyrics, and then alternates for each line? I'm sure there are many possible alternatives for each line of the song. For instance, I've always heard "And me without a spoon" as the refrain. --71.125.9.87 21:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

---Mid-Western Version---

Miles and miles of greamy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Smushed up baby birdies feet.

French Fried Eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood And that aint all, I forgot my spoon; but I brought my straw. I think there is a vaccine reference in there somehow, maybe from the Belgian Congo ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C40:7900:5AF:7584:EF4A:C014:5F05 (talk) 23:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Different Version
I know that throughout the US and other contries who share this song have different versions. Here is the one that I grew up knowing.

Miles and miles of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Dirty, little birdy feet, Miles and miles of greasy, grimy gopher guts, And I forgot my spoon!!!! 158.35.225.230 13:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I learned yet another version...

Gobs and gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkeys' feet, Little babies' heads to eat, Jars and jars of all-purpose porpoise puss, And me without my spoon! 99.249.16.177 (talk) 14:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

(Another alternate version) Great big gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Little, dirty birdy fee, French-Fried eye balls boiled in a pool of blood, & I forgot my spoon! *Slurp!* —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.242.72.5 (talk) 09:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Little piggie's hairy feet, All mixed up with violated vulture vomit; And me without my spoon! -- Resuna (talk) 23:51, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Great big globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Percolated pigeon feet, Great big globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, And I forgot my spoon (I'll use a straw)2603:8000:8B03:3384:6CC9:5E73:9FA6:E400 (talk) 12:15, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

(Yet another alternate version, heard in the late 80's / early 90's) Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, Chopped up baby parakeet, And I forgot my spoon! 151.205.108.187 (talk) 00:58, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Version by Mika Seeger
The lyrics depicting how Seeger performed the piece are incorrect. The current lyrics depict how Bloo in the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends plays a trick on Cheese. Suggest correcting especially the end part. B.H. June 26, 2007

It IS Mika Seeger (Pete Seeger's daughter) and not Mike Seeger- see external links.Pustelnik (talk) 02:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Infobox
I am going to remove the infobox. The current box incorrectly attributes the song to Mika Seeger, but as the article clearly says the song is traditional. The album mentioned in the infobox is not even the first publication of this song, and the other album mentioned in the article may well not be the first publication of the song either. The infobox doesn't seem appropriate for a traditional folk song. It seems more suited to a modern song, where the first publication is coincident with the first performance of the song.--Srleffler (talk) 04:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup
Why and where does this article need to be cleaned up? How should it be cleaned up? Hyacinth (talk) 09:34, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I like that it has all of the other versions of the song. I never knew there were so many.  Whoever flagged this as "containing too many irrelevant revisions" or whatever, needs to remove that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronzoninj (talk • contribs) 12:19, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not and does not intend to be every version of every folk song ever sung. When we add without restraint to articles like this, we end up with articles like this. Rather than having an informative, encyclopedic article about the song, we have brief discussion of the song buried in countless versions of the song of completely unknown relevance and origin. Rather than a sourced article discussing the origin, development, meaning an relevance of the song (an "encyclopedia article") we have a completely random collection of versions. This collection likely contains something close to the original song, versions collected at sourcable times and locations and versions created by one or two kids at some random summer camp that are no more important than the particular way those same kids misunderstand the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. It might be fun -- to some -- to read this collection, but that is not what Wikipedia is or intends to be. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 15:50, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Another version
I'm surprised that none of the versions in the article include the obvious rhyme that was in the version of the song I heard growing up in Appalachia in the 1970s.

Great big globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts

Mutilated monkey nuts

(etc)

Ah, the classics... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.81.169.7 (talk) 02:28, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

misspelled name
Weiskopf is misspelled as Weiskopt in the third item of Further Reading 71.168.224.118 (talk) 19:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)