I swear there was a thread where several of us posted the songs we use when milking or interacting with our goats. I can't find it now, and I was wanting to read it to a friend of mine who can't see well enough to use the computer any more.
If you don't mind, can you repost what you sing?
Here's mine.....
As I go out to the pens, I call, "Goats! Goats! Goats!" And then I sing the Goat Song, which sounds remarkably like the Chicken Song that has the funny dance with it, but the words are:
Fare thee well fare thee well, fare thee well my Sissy A
For Im goin to Lousianna for to see my Sissyanna singin
Sissy whissy doodle all the day.
While not milking Nanette gets a badly botched version of the Adams Family tune;
Na Na Na nette, Na Na Na nette etc...
She's crazy & she's spooky, mysterious & ookie
She's altogether loo-vely
(& whatever else comes into my head that makes no sense)
She also gets the Pretty Pretty Nanette song.
Buddy Holly's (cant remember title) for Lela who is neither little nor a milker;
Pretty little girl thats my little Lela
Her name drives me insane, pretty little girl thats my little Lela
Man that little girl is fine.
Me & Lela go for a ride OW Ow Ow Ow feelin funny inside
Then little Lela burps cud in my ear ow ow ow ow I love you Lela dear
Lela says she loves me never gonna leave me etc.
She also gets sung Eric Clapton's "Layla" modified to Lela of course.
Brikhaus the Boer was named from the song with lyrics of "She's a BRICK....
House!" So that gets sung around here alot.
At a show a friend started belting it out as we passed him.
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Laughing Stock Boer Goats
"Seriously Great Bloodlines"
and the meat goes on....
Near Seattle
Well I can't carry a tune in a bucket with the lid welded on so I try to avoid singing a lot but they do get to listen to the radio and seem to like it
When I have goats I'll sing them Bill Grogan's Goat Song
Bill Grogan's goat , Was feeling fine
Ate three red shirts, Right off the line.
Bill took a stick, Gave him a whack,
And tied him to, The railroad track.
The whistle blew, The train was nigh
Bill Grogan's goat , Was doomed to die!
He gave a cough , Of mortal pain,
Coughed up those shirts , And flagged the train!
Sometimes I also sing the Scruggs and Flatt song Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, except I sing girl, girl, girls your are some big ol pearls, and I don't even get in trouble for calling them "big ol"
~clears her throat and then dives in, high and strong~
Ya picked a fine time to jump me, Lu-Belle
Four hungry kids and the milk bucket fell!
I've milked some bad goats, cried with some sad goats
but this time the bruises do tell....
ya picked a fine time to jump me, Lu-Belle.
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Peace,
Caliann
"First, Show me in the Bible where it says you can save someone's soul by annoying the hell out of them." -- Chuck
Baa-ram-ewe !!!! Baa-ram-ewe!!! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true. Baa-ram-ewe
And when I put them up at night in their stalls, I sing 'Hush little sheepies dont dont baa a word, Momma's gonna buy you shearing stand, and if that shearing stand gets broke, momma's gonna replace you with Milking goats.
Sorry....is this for goats songs only?
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"If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest."
- Douglas William Jerrold
Nope, not only for goats! Little sheep, go to sleep, songs are welcome.
But, might I mention that with just a LITTLE bit of ingenuity, a shearing stand can double as a milking stand. And if you threaten to replace them with milking goats because the shearing stand broke, they may be looking at you and going, "Crazy woman! You'd have to buy another stand to milk on anyway!"
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Peace,
Caliann
"First, Show me in the Bible where it says you can save someone's soul by annoying the hell out of them." -- Chuck
Nope, not only for goats! Little sheep, go to sleep, songs are welcome.
But, might I mention that with just a LITTLE bit of ingenuity, a shearing stand can double as a milking stand. And if you threaten to replace them with milking goats because the shearing stand broke, they may be looking at you and going, "Crazy woman! You'd have to buy another stand to milk on anyway!"
LOL...True dat...they are always itching themselves on it and pushing it around..it's homemade from a old weight bench ...Plus I have to pick their fat (you know) up to put them on it...I want a walk up...LOL...Hey add that to the our shopping list...a new walk up shearing/goat stand...
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"If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest."
- Douglas William Jerrold
Buddy Holly's (cant remember title) for Lela who is neither little nor a milker;
Pretty little girl thats my little Lela
Her name drives me insane, pretty little girl thats my little Lela
Man that little girl is fine.
Me & Lela go for a ride OW Ow Ow Ow feelin funny inside
Then little Lela burps cud in my ear ow ow ow ow I love you Lela dear
Lela says she loves me never gonna leave me etc.
"Sheila" = sung by Tommy Roe, although I used to think it was Buddy Holly too! My name is Sheelagh, so I do know the song
It depends which goat I'm milking as to what song I sing - Annie gets Terry Kelly's "Lovely Annie". Kitty gets "Kitty Starr" or "Coal Quay Market" (Kitty-palollopa-lollopalie, Kitty-palollopalie-do!"). Matilda isn't milking yet, but her song is "Matilda, she stole me money and she run Venezuala!" Emily gets Simon and Garfunkel's "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her".
Yes, I'm strange. I sing to the cows in the morning, as well - nothing particular, just whatever I feel like singing that day.
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Half Caper Farm - breeding Saanens, Boers and Nigerian Dwarfs
