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Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome
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Pete Seeger - Little Boxes
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Pete Seeger - Down By The Riverside
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Pete Seeger - Skip To My Lou
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Pete Seeger - Buffalo Gals
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Pete Seeger - Where Have All The Flower Gone?
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Pete Seeger - Solidarity Forever
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Pete Seeger - Banks Are Made Of Marble
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Pete Seeger - Which Side Are You On?
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Pete Seeger - I'm Gonna Be An Engineer
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Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer
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Pete Seeger - The Commonwealth Of Toil
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Pete Seeger - Andorra
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Pete Seeger - Oleanna
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Pete Seeger - Over The Hills
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Pete Seeger - Sour Cream
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Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School Today?
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Pete Seeger - (If You Love Your Uncle Sam) Bring Them Home
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Pete Seeger - A Little A' This 'N' That
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Pete Seeger - Abiyoyo
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Pete Seeger - Adam The Inventor
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Pete Seeger - All Mixed Up
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Pete Seeger - All My Children Of The Sun
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Pete Seeger - All My Trials
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Pete Seeger - Amen
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Pete Seeger - And I'm Still Searching
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Pete Seeger - Arrange And Re-Arrange
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Pete Seeger - Ballad Of The Fort Hood Three
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Pete Seeger - Battle Of New Orleans
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Pete Seeger - Be Kind To Your Parents
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Pete Seeger - Bells Of Rhymney
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Pete Seeger - Blue Skies
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Pete Seeger - Bourgeois Blues
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Pete Seeger - Business
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Pete Seeger - C For Conscription
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Pete Seeger - Casey Jones
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Pete Seeger - Circles
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Pete Seeger - Crawly Creepy Little Mousie
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Pete Seeger - Dear Mr. President
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Pete Seeger - Deliver The Goods
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Pete Seeger - Deportee
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Pete Seeger - Die Gedanken Sind Frei
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Pete Seeger - Draft Dodger Rag
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Pete Seeger - Empty Pockets Blues
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Pete Seeger - English Is Cuh-Ray-Zee
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Pete Seeger - Estadio Chile
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Pete Seeger - Everybody's Got A Right To Live
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Pete Seeger - False From True
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Pete Seeger - Festival Of Flowers
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Pete Seeger - Franklin D.
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Pete Seeger - From Way Up Here
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Pete Seeger - Full Fathom Five
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Pete Seeger - Garbage
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Pete Seeger - Garden Song
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Pete Seeger - Get Up And Go
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Pete Seeger - Goliath (A Nursery Rhyme)
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Pete Seeger - Goodnight, Irene
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Pete Seeger - Guantanamera
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Pete Seeger - Hobo's Lullaby
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Pete Seeger - Hold The Line
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Pete Seeger - How Can I Keep From Singing
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Pete Seeger - Huddie Ledbetter Was A Helluva Man
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Pete Seeger - I Come And Stand At Every Door
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Pete Seeger - I'll Never Say Goodbye
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Pete Seeger - I'm A Little Cookie
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Pete Seeger - If This World Survives
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Pete Seeger - If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus
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Pete Seeger - In Dead Earnest
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Pete Seeger - It's A Long Haul
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Pete Seeger - Jacob's Ladder
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Pete Seeger - Joe Hill
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Pete Seeger - John Henry
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Pete Seeger - Joy Upon The Earth
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Pete Seeger - King Henry
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Pete Seeger - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
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Pete Seeger - Land Of A Thousand Songs
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Pete Seeger - Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
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Pete Seeger - Last Train To Nuremberg
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Pete Seeger - Legs
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Pete Seeger - Letter To Eve
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Pete Seeger - Lisa Kalvelage
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Pete Seeger - Listen, Mister Bilbo
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Pete Seeger - Little Fat Baby
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Pete Seeger - Mail Myself To You
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Pete Seeger - Maple Syrup Time
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Pete Seeger - Men Of Principle
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Pete Seeger - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
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Pete Seeger - Midnight Special
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Pete Seeger - Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
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Pete Seeger - My Dentist Has Tattooed Legs
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Pete Seeger - My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
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Pete Seeger - My Rainbow Race
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Pete Seeger - Nicaragua, Nicaraguita
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Pete Seeger - No Closing Chord
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Pete Seeger - No Money, No War
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Pete Seeger - Now We Sit Us Down
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Pete Seeger - Odds On Favorite
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Pete Seeger - Of Time And Rivers Flowing
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Pete Seeger - Oh Yes I'd Climb
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Pete Seeger - Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
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Pete Seeger - Old Devil Time
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Pete Seeger - Old Father Hudson
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Pete Seeger - Old Hundred
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Pete Seeger - Old Time Religion
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Pete Seeger - One Man's Hands
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Pete Seeger - Our Generation
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Pete Seeger - Over The Rainbow
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Pete Seeger - Passing Through
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Pete Seeger - Pastures Of Plenty
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Pete Seeger - Peat Bog Soldiers
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Pete Seeger - Pete's Song
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Pete Seeger - Plow Under
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Pete Seeger - Precious Friend
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Pete Seeger - Quite Early Morning
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Pete Seeger - Ring Like A Bell
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Pete Seeger - River Of Jordan
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Pete Seeger - River Of My People
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Pete Seeger - Round And Round Hitler's Grave
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Pete Seeger - Sacco's Letter To His Son
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Pete Seeger - Sailing Down My Golden River
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Pete Seeger - Satisfied Mind
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Pete Seeger - Seventy Miles
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Pete Seeger - Simple Gifts
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Pete Seeger - Snow, Snow
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Pete Seeger - Somos El Barco
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Pete Seeger - Sower Of Seeds
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Pete Seeger - Starlight, Starbright
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Pete Seeger - State Of Arkansas
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Pete Seeger - Strange Death Of John Doe
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Pete Seeger - Sweepy, Sweepy, Sweepy
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Pete Seeger - Take It From Dr. King
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Pete Seeger - Talking Ben Tre Blues
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Pete Seeger - Talking Union
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Pete Seeger - Teacher Uncle Ho
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Pete Seeger - The Ballad Of Harry Bridges
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Pete Seeger - The Bells Of Rhymney
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Pete Seeger - The Calendar
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Pete Seeger - The Emperor Is Naked Today-O!
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Pete Seeger - The Foolish Frog
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Pete Seeger - The Housewife Terrorists
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Pete Seeger - The Mary Ellen Carter
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Pete Seeger - The People Are Scratching
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Pete Seeger - The Ross Perot Guide To Answering Embarrassing Questions
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Pete Seeger - The Sloop Clearwater
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Pete Seeger - The Song Of The World's Last Whale
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Pete Seeger - The Spider's Web
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Pete Seeger - The Torn Flag
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Pete Seeger - The Water Is Wide
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Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land
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Pete Seeger - This Old Man
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Pete Seeger - Those Three Are On My Mind
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Pete Seeger - To Everyone In All The World To Everyone In All The World
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Pete Seeger - To Fight, Perchance To Win
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Pete Seeger - To My Old Brown Earth
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Pete Seeger - Tomorrow Is A Highway
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Pete Seeger - Tomorrow's Children
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Pete Seeger - Trouble At The Bottom
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Pete Seeger - Turn, Turn, Turn
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Pete Seeger - Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
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Pete Seeger - Walking Down Death Row
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Pete Seeger - Wasn't That A Time
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Pete Seeger - Way Out There
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Pete Seeger - We'll All Be A-Doubling
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Pete Seeger - Well May The World Go
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Pete Seeger - When I Was Most Beautiful
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Pete Seeger - Who Killed Norma Jean
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Pete Seeger - Words, Words, Words
Abiyoyo
Pete Seeger
"Take that thing out of here. We're talking. Git!" And they'd kick him out of the house.
Not only that. The boy's father would get in trouble, too. His father was a magician. He had a magic wand. He could go Zoop! with it, and make things disappear.
But the father was a terrible practical joker. He'd come up to someone just about to drink a nice glass of...something. Zoop! The glass would disappear. He'd come up to someone doing a hard job of work - maybe sawing a log of wood: zzt, zzt, zzt. Up comes the father: Zoop! And the saw would disappear. He'd come up to someone just about to sit down after a hard day's work, and zoop! no chair.
People got tired of all this. They said to the father: "You get out of here too. Take your magic wand and your practical jokes and you and your son, just git!"
And the boy and his father, they ostracized them. That means, they made 'em live on the outskirts of town.
(Banjo starts a low, menacing strum)
Now, in this town they used to tell stories. The old people used to tell stories about the monsters and giants that lived in the old days! They used to tell a story about Abiyoyo. They said he was as tall as a house, and could eat...people...up. (Of course, nobody believed it, but they told the stories anyway).
But one day, one day, the sun rose, blood red over the hill. And the first people that got up and looked out of their window - they saw a great big shadow in front of the sun. And they could feel the whole ground shake (Stomp, stomp.)
Women screamed. Strong men fainted. They said. Run for your lives! Abiyoyo's coming!
Down through the fields he came. He came to the sheep, pasture and grabs a whole sheep. Yeowp! He eats it down in one bite. He comes to the cow pasture. Yuhk!
Just then the boy and his father woke up. I think they'd been up late the night before at a party. The boy rubbed his eyes and said:
"Hey, paw, what's coming over the fields?" The father said: "Oh, son. It's Abiyoyo. Oh, if only I could get him to lie down. I could get him to disappear."
The boy said, "Come with me father." He grabbed his father by one hand. The father grabbed the magic wand, and the boy grabbed his ukulele. Over the fields they went, right up to where Abiyoyo was.
People screamed "Don't go near him! He'll eat you alive!"
There was Abiyoyo. He had long fingernails, 'cause he never cut 'em. He had slobbery teeth 'cause he never brushed them. Matted hair, 'cause he never combed it. Stinking feet, 'cause he never washed them. He was just about to come down with his claws, when the boy whipped out his ukulele.
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo Abi...
Well, the monster had never heard a song about himself before, and a foolish grin spread across his face. And started to dance.
ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO, The boy went faster.
ABIYOYO, YO YOYO, YO YOYO ABIYOYO, YO YOYO...
The giant got out of breath. He staggered. He fell down flat on the ground.
Zoop, zoop! went the father with his magic want, and Abiyoyo disappeared.
People streamed out of their houses, and ran across the fields. They said: "Why, he's gone, he's disappeared!"
They said: "Come on back to town. Bring your damn ukulele;
We don't care."
And they all sang:
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo
Abiyoyo. yo yoyo yo yoyo.