Musical query

[DR. BELCH]

So I was listening to one of my old tapes--a compilation I made myself of songs and comedy bits I recorded years ago off the radio, which I used to do--and one of those songs was a rare ditty called "The Unicorn Song". It played once around St. Patrick's Day maybe eight or ten years ago and I've never heard it aired again. The chorus goes--with slight variants as it repeats--thusly:
"Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees,
Some cats and rats and elephants, but as sure as you're born,
You're never gonna see no unicorn."
Has anybody else heard it? If so, do you know who sang it? It's probably pretty rare--not as much as a copy of Dylan's "John Birch Society Blues", I'd wager, but still pretty obscure....

[Nightflower]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
So I was listening to one of my old tapes--a compilation I made myself of songs and comedy bits I recorded years ago off the radio, which I used to do--and one of those songs was a rare ditty called "The Unicorn Song". It played once around St. Patrick's Day maybe eight or ten years ago and I've never heard it aired again. The chorus goes--with slight variants as it repeats--thusly:
"Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees,
Some cats and rats and elephants, but as sure as you're born,
You're never gonna see no unicorn."
Has anybody else heard it? If so, do you know who sang it? It's probably pretty rare--not as much as a copy of Dylan's "John Birch Society Blues", I'd wager, but still pretty obscure....

I've heard of it. It's religious, has something to do with Noah's Ark and why there are no unicorns in the world anymore. The version I heard was aimed for kids, so it was sung by a happy man with a guitar. Argh.... I don't remember who though... sorry

[Calhoun07]

If anybody can tell me more about the song "One Night With Regis" I would be eternally grateful. That is one song I taped off of KROC out of Rochester, Minnesota when I was a wee lad, about the mid to late 80s or so. It was about Regis Philbin (of course) and this was before he was really as famous as he is today, when he was still a New York personality for the most part. It was a parody of the Murray Head song, "One Night in Bancock." I loved that song, and I especially want to hear it again now that Regis is so famous. I have no idea what I did with that tape, and I cannot believe that whoever made that song let it fade away to nothing. Or that nobody else remembers it or has it.

[Mattashell]

The lyrics to the Unicorn are a poem by Shell Silverstien from on of his kids books, its definitely in either A Light In The Attic or Where The Sidewalk Ends.

[Ruffian]

Originally posted by Mattashell
The lyrics to the Unicorn are a poem by Shell Silverstien from on of his kids books, its definitely in either A Light In The Attic or Where The Sidewalk Ends.

It's in Where the Sidewalk Ends . I thought those lyrics look VERY familiar. Silverstein had awesome poems.