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Lyric Request -- Grandma's Lye Soap
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s***@gmail.com
2019-07-02 08:34:25 UTC
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A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
trying to learn the song for a party.
Thanks
LIsten to an album called Crazy Guys the original is on there it's called 'In The Book' by Johnny Standledy
Joseph C. Fineman
2019-07-03 01:30:57 UTC
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Post by s***@gmail.com
A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
trying to learn the song for a party.
Thanks
LIsten to an album called Crazy Guys the original is on there it's
called 'In The Book' by Johnny Standledy
Failing that, see https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2386
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Bonnie Fraser
2023-01-28 18:07:34 UTC
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A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
trying to learn the song for a party.
Thanks
"It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to get out their hymnals and began to sing "Grandma's Lye Soap". And told them "it's in the book.

--Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser
Ian Jackson
2023-02-01 20:40:56 UTC
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Post by Bonnie Fraser
A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
trying to learn the song for a party.
Thanks
"It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster
Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang
at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to
get out their hymnals and began to sing "Grandma's Lye Soap". And told
them "it's in the book.
--Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser
When I was a youngster (some seventy years ago), one of my friends had
the record. IIRC, the words started something like this:
"Let me tell you 'bout Grandma's lye soap,
Good for everything in the home.
And the secret was in the spreading,
It wouldn't sud, it wouldn't foam."
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Ian
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