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I love the Barney Google Comic strip (which really needs a complete reprinting, but you can get a good taste of it by joining the yahoo group “GoogleGang” here<\/a>).<\/p>\n In its heyday in the 20’s, it was one of the most popular comic strips in the country, and as a result it was also a merchandising phenomenon.<\/p>\n This merchandising included, among other things, a song.<\/p>\n My Grandpa likes to sing a refrain from the song “Barney Google” every once in a while, and I recently started singing it to my daughter along with a lot of eye rolling at the appropriate points, which she finds hilarious. I thought I’d see what I could find out about it around the interweb.<\/p>\n Who’s the most important man this country ever knew? Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. Who’s the greatest lover that this country ever knew? Why, it’s Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. Who’s the greatest fire chief this country ever saw? Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes. I’ve got four versions of this song for your listening enjoyment (courtesy of archive.org<\/a> and juneberry78s.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n Here are download links:<\/p>\n Barney Google Version 1: Billy Jones and Ernest Hare<\/a> Barney Google Version 4: Georgie Martin<\/a><\/p>\n Hogan’s Alley has a nice gallery of old sheet music covers featuring old cartoon characters… there are a ton of them.<\/a> Looking at the gallery, it reveals that there was a second Barney Google song… “The Brotherhood of Billy Goats.” If anyone has a recording of that out there, I’d love to share it.<\/p>\n I love the Barney Google Comic strip (which really needs a complete reprinting, but you can get a good taste of it by joining the yahoo group “GoogleGang” here). In its heyday in the 20’s, it was one of the … Continue reading ![\"Barney](\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/classics_barneygoogletoy.gif\" "\\"Barney")
<\/p>\nBARNEY GOOGLE
\n(Rose \/ De Beck \/ Con Conrad)
\nBilly Jones & Ernest Hare, Thomas & West<\/font><\/h1>\n
\nDo you know what politician I have reference to?
\nWell, it isn’t Mr. Bryan, and it isn’t Mr. Hughes.
\nI’ve got a hunch that to that bunch I’m going to introduce:
\n(Again you’re wrong and to this throng I’m going to Introduce:)<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
\nWhen the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
\nBarney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google had a wife three times his size
\nShe sued Barney for divorce
\nNow he’s living with his horse.
\nBarney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
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\nAnd who’s the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
\nNo, it isn’t Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.
\nWhen he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands
\nout?<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google is the guy who never buys.
\nWomen take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter’s dime.
\nBarney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google is the luckiest of guys.
\nIf he fell in to the mud, he’d come up with a diamond stud.
\nBarney Google with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.<\/font><\/p>\n
\nWho’s the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?
\nAnytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,
\nSay, tell me do, who goes, “kerchoo!” and puts the fire out?<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.
\nHe got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.
\nBarney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.<\/font><\/p>\n
\nBarney Google tried to enter paradise.
\nWhen Saint Peter saw his face, he said, “Go to the other place”.
\nBarney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
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\nBarney Google Version 2: Billy Jones and Ernest Hare Alternate Version <\/a>
\nBarney Google Version 3: Great White Way Orchestra with Billy Murray<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Barney](\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/classics_barney_google_billygoats_sheet_music.gif\" "\\"Barney")
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