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Princess Poopooley
words & music by Harry Owens, 1940
Princess Poopooly has plenty papayas
And she loves to give it away.
Now all of the neighbors they say:
"Oh, mea! Oh, mya!
You really should try a
Little piece of the Princess Poopooly's papaya."
Princess Poopooly's not truly unruly
To pass out papayas each day,
For all of the neighbors they say:
"She may give the fruit
But she holds on to the root
And so she has the fruit
And the root to boot."
Zaza zaza zaza zaa---
One bright Sunday afternoon
It was field day in her papaya groves,
But I reached the gate an hour too late.
The customers were lined up in droves.
So let this be a warning:
Go early in the morning
And it is true you'll never rue the day.
The Princess Poopooly has plenty papayas
And she love to give it away.
I mean papaya.
She loves to give them away.
Source: Our Hawaii by Bob Krauss - Written for Carmen Joyce, a Ziegfield
Follies chorus girl who arrived in Hawaii 1924, at age 26, to dance in the
chorus line of a show booked in the Princess Theater. The show ran 10 weeks,
Carmen fell in love with Hawaii.
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