Great Green Gobs Of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts
Great Green G(l)obs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts, an anonymous United States folk song dating to the mid-20th century. It is popular among schoolchildren and is usually sung to the tune of The Old Gray Mare. The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors through cheerful comedy, while allowing children to explore taboo images and words, especially as they relate to standards of cleanliness and dining.
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Famous quotes containing the words green, grimy and/or guts:
“Nature’s first green is gold,”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
“The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)