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  • Re: Lyric Request -- Grandma's Lye Soap

    From Bonnie Fraser@grandmabonnie33@gmail.com to rec.music.folk on Sat Jan 28 10:07:34 2023
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk

    On Tuesday, March 26, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
    someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are trying to learn the song for a party.
    Thanks
    "It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to get out their hymnals and began to sing "Grandma's Lye Soap". And told them "it's in the book.
    --Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser
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  • From Ian Jackson@ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk to rec.music.folk on Wed Feb 1 20:40:56 2023
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk

    In message <e31a561c-da16-4a5b-af14-8be289218d1fn@googlegroups.com>,
    Bonnie Fraser <grandmabonnie33@gmail.com> writes
    On Tuesday, March 26, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, RSandvik wrote:
    A while ago, someone in this group requested the lyrics to an old song
    called Grandma's Lye Soap. I believe the request was answered. Would
    someone who has them please e-mail the lyrics -- some friends and I are
    trying to learn the song for a party.
    Thanks

    "It's in the Book" was a satirical record (45) by the comedian Foster
    Brooks (I still own the record and found another one on eBay). He sang
    at a country fair, pretending to be a minister. He told his audience to
    get out their hymnals and began to sing "Grandma's Lye Soap". And told
    them "it's in the book.

    --Bonnie Higginbotham Fraser

    When I was a youngster (some seventy years ago), one of my friends had
    the record. IIRC, the words started something like this:
    "Let me tell you 'bout Grandma's lye soap,
    Good for everything in the home.
    And the secret was in the spreading,
    It wouldn't sud, it wouldn't foam."
    --
    Ian
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