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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
OK, I'll bite, who's Johnny Verbeck?
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I thought you'd never ask. Don't know where it came from originally, but it's now popular as a campfire song:
Mr. Johnny Verbeck
There was a little Dutch man, his name was Johnny Verbeck
He used to deal in sausages and sauerkraut and spec
He made the finest sausages that ever you did see.
Until the day that he worked out his sausage making machine.
Refrain:
Oh, Mr. Johnny Verbeck, how could you be so mean
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine
Now all the neighbors' cats and dogs will never more be seen
They've all been ground to sausages in Johnny Verbeck's machine
One day a little neighbor boy came walking through the door
He bought a pound of sausages and laid them on the floor
The boy began to whistle, he whistled up a tune
And all the sausages got up and danced around the room
[Refrain]
One day the meat inspector came a-knocking at the door,
He said, "I've come to check your shop, or give me money more!"
Now Johnny he got angry, and pushed him in the meat,
He fired up the ol' machine and now there's more to eat.
[Refrain]
One day the thing was broken, the darn thing wouldn't go
So Johnny Verbeck, he climbed inside, to see what made it so
His wife, she had a nightmare a walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank an awful yank and Johnny Verbeck was meat
[Refrain]