Inner City Unit: Poppa Mm Mao Mao decoded
The secret text decoded by RandM for Nazar: POPPA MM MOA MOA. The alphabet was taken from another type book I gave Barney, a primer of American show-card caps from the Chicago school of sign writers in the early thirties.
Steve and 
Steve 9:22 pm on October 21, 2009 Permalink |
“Pappa MM Mau Mau”
davidwills 11:27 pm on October 21, 2009 Permalink |
Uh-uh Steve, don’t fink so, that’s an ‘O’ nottan ‘A’
davidwills 11:36 pm on October 21, 2009 Permalink |
…. but for real versimilitude I should have tapped it in caps as ‘POPPA MM MAO MAO’– although MAU MAU would be a ha ha too.
Steve 12:11 am on October 22, 2009 Permalink |
Technically we’re both wrong (And in spelling so was Barney), it’s a quote from “Surfin bird” but when sung the last word sounds more like “Mau” than “Mao” Inner City Unit once had a huge plastic backdrop with the phrase from the LP on it. It was stolen at Stonehenge.
SURFIN’ BIRD
THE TRASHMEN 1963
A-well-a everybody’s heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a…
A-well-a everybody’s heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well, everybody’s talking about the bird!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird…
Surfin’ bird
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb… [retching noises]… aaah!
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa…
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa…
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Well don’t you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
davidwills 12:18 am on October 22, 2009 Permalink |
Ok, but surely Barney’s spelling is making the joke about Mao Tse Tung, whose pix is shewn, no?
Steve 8:31 am on October 22, 2009 Permalink |
It is! and in 1979 I realised that.. in 2009 I’m too blinkered!
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