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12-24-2016, 02:03 PM
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Pogo Possum Christmas Greeting
I think you have to be over 70 years old to actually remember this, which originally appeared in 1948.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower alley'garoo! Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby lilla boy, Louisville Lou? Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo! Best wishes to everyone! Don 
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12-24-2016, 04:13 PM
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I am not over 70, but I do remember that. We used to sing it Oklahoma when I was knee high to a grasshopper.
Best wishes to you and yours. 
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12-24-2016, 05:03 PM
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My brothers and I used to sing that when we were children. Thanks for the memories Don!
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12-24-2016, 05:28 PM
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Right you are, Don -- turned 71 last week, and Pogo was a staple for Dad and me every day when I was growing up. And just recently I learned that before doing the Pogo strip, Walt Kelly was an animator for Walt Disney.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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12-24-2016, 05:53 PM
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I second what everyone else has said. I never saw the original, but was a big Pogo fan and bought many of the bound collections, one of which included Deck us all with Boston Charlie. Pogo, Churchy, and Albert were guiding lights for many years. Happy Holidays, Don and everyone!
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12-24-2016, 06:15 PM
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Oh, I've been singing that all of my life. My parents called me "Grundoon" when I was at the chewing-on-everything age. My speech patterns have been permanently quirked by Pogoistic wordplay. And I have happy memories of having a coworker unexpectedly join in when I was singing it at work one Yuke season.
P.S. Does anyone else remember any of his other songs? I can do a fairly good rendition of "Whither the starling" on a good day. Whither the starling And whither the crows And whither the weather When wither the snows? The weaver's wet daughter Is damp'ning the clothes With wavelets of water Left over from snothes Left over from snothes, Left over from snothes. Right over and under And yonder she goethes! Last edited by Amccombs3; 12-24-2016 at 06:41 PM.
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12-24-2016, 06:35 PM
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Well I'm 73 in a few days ... but I don't recall that one at all, or the Pogo characters. I guess it weren't in the Pearly King's song book, or was it just that I wasn't aware of such things as televisions until I was eight?
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Keep on snippin' ... Johnny
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12-24-2016, 07:18 PM
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Johnny -
I think Pogo was strictly a newspaper comic strip published in the United States and Canada in the late 1940s and 1950s. Later, some books were published, and I am happy to have a two-volume hard-bound set of the classic Pogo strips. The author, Walt Kelly, was a brilliant writer, artists, and humorist. As Anne suggests, the language of Pogo, like the later Mad Magazine, became part of the culture of a certain segment of American youth of that period. The Boston Charlie song, to the tune of "Deck the Halls" give some flavor of Walt Kelly's zany and inventive humor. Don
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