Many Variations
The simple repetitive structure of the song lends itself to near infinite variations. Sometimes "Just now" is substituted for "last night". Sometimes the verse will not reference the preceding verse as in the first example above.
Versions current in Baltimore in 1955 weren't quite as heavenly focused, and ended in: "Shoveling coal, shoveling coal, shoveling coal just now ..."
Another common variation on "last night" is "yesterday". This is used by "This Morning With Richard Not Judy" (TMWRNJ) by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.
Other substitutions include:
- Other foods can also be used, such as an apple, for which the second line can be "it was wormy"
- "green and mouldy" by "found it rotten" or "it was rotten".
- "Wouldn't take me" by "Kicked an angel" or "Punched St. Peter".
- "Penicillin" by "Didn't Work"
- "Operation" by "Cut Me Open" / "Took the Peanut Out" / "Sewed Me Up Again" / "Left The Scissors In" / "Cut Me Open Again".
- "Didn't want me," by "Woke up," and
- "It was a dream" by "Shoveling coal."
Read more about this topic: Found A Peanut
Famous quotes containing the word variations:
“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)