Well, if you ever wanted to know what Dead Puppies sounded like when it was being performed by a traveling minstrel on a lute. I can help you out. Well, I don't actually have a lute, but I assume it sounds much like my 6-string ukulele.
What's that? You don't know what Dead Puppies is? Holy crap. Didn't you listen to the Dr. Demento show on the radio, growing up? What's that? You don't know what the radio is? Freaking kids today and your fancy interwebs and whatnot.
Here's a live version of Ogden Edsl rocking Dead Puppies. I dunno about you guys, but I totally want to hang with these dudes. Maybe it's the beard talking.
And here is my bathroom version of Dead Puppies.
This song is just one of those touchstones for me. I can't explain in. In fact, my brothers and I are working on a ridiculous requirements for our funerals. For example, the other brothers have to have Coolio hair, or everyone at the funeral must listen to 3 hours of my old 4-track recordings.... etc. Well, I'm pretty sure Dead Puppies is going to need to be played at my funeral and my ghost will ensure that everyone is singing along.
Now that I got your attention... Nah, I'm not joking. This really is a poontang video. Heh. I'm having a pretty good time here using the word poontang in a somewhat legitimate manner...... POONTANG!
Ok. I think I got that out of my system. We can start for real. As you may or may not know, I'm a freaking sucker for novelty songs. I know what you are thinking, "Wait a minute, he likes ukuleles and novelty music? High school must have been awesome for him!" Surprisingly enough, it wasn't, but that's neither here nor there.
On one of my various novelty compilations, I first heard the song Poontang by the Treniers and I was amazed! Frankly, I wasn't even sure the word poontang existed in 1953. Turns out, it did. After I heard the song I did a little bit of research and it sounds like The Treniers were pretty much party animals. The drank and recorded rad songs. In fact, to promote this song, they made custom labels for beer cans that said something like "Sweet Alabama Poontang" on them. Then they sent the beer to radio station disc jockeys to get them to play it. Freaking rad!
Anyway, I've been wanting to make a video for this for ages but kept putting it off. So, today I just grabbed my aNueNueBanjolele and my Flip and busted out this video in a single take. Boosh!
If you want to hear the original, check out this video:
And if you wanna play along (and who wouldn't, right?) here's some chords that I wrote up for Poontang!
Poontang by The Treniers
covered by Ukulele Guy
10 9 8 8
...POON is a hug!
10 9 8 8
TANG is a kiss!
C x7 (5433)
F
I've been marooned on an isle in the South Pacific
Bb
Missing my loving each night
C
Now that I'm home I'll go right
E F
Out and get me some POON-TANG!
F
Tired of talking to tigers and kangaroos,
Bb
Or singing a song to a goose.
C
Now that I'm home on the loose,
E F
Gonna get me some POONTANG!
Bb
Now Poon is a hug. I wanted a hug so badly
D# (3331)
I was Blowing my tropical top.
C
A Tang is a kiss, I wanted a kiss so badly
C E
Wanted Poontang never to stop.
F
I don't want to eat And I don't want to sleep;
Bb
I've got a yen that I'm dying to please.
C
Till I get weak in the knees,
E F
Gonna get me that Poontang.
F
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
Bb
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
C
POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
Bb
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
C
A-huggin and a-kissin...that's POON-TANG!
F
POON-TANG!
Rock break.
Bb
A Poon is a hug. I wanted a hug so badly
D#
I was blowin' my tropical top.
C
A Tang is a kiss, I wanted a kiss so badly
E
Want-a-Poontang never to stop.
F#
I don't want to eat and I don't want to sleep;
B
I've got a yen that I'm dying to please
C#
Till I get weak in the knees,
F F#
Gonna get me that Poontang.
POON-TANG!
POON-TANG!
Gonna get me some, gonna get me song... poon tang!