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The Magnus Organ (Get your minds out of the gutter)

Remember the Magnus?

Woody sends us a Magnus Chord Organ sheet music sampler. (Wish I thought of this meme!)

11 Comments on The Magnus Organ (Get your minds out of the gutter)

  1. Heh! I couldn’t help but think about one of my favorite songs of Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers’s Broadway musical OKLAHOMA!

    PORE JUD IS DAID
    Poor Jud is dead, Poor Jud Fry is dead
    All gather round his coffin now and cry
    He had a heart of gold, And he wasn’t very old
    Oh why did such a feller have to die?

    Poor Jud is dead, Poor Jud Fry is dead
    He’s lookin’ oh so peaceful and serene
    He’s all laid out to rest, With his hands acrost his chest
    His fingernails have never been so clean

    [spoken] Then the preacher’d get up and he’d say “Folks, we are gathered here to mourn and groan over our brother Jud Fry Who hung hisself up by a rope in the smokehouse.” And then there’d be weepin’ an’ wailin’ — from some of those women — Then he’d say, “Jud was the most misunderstood man in this territory.” People used to think he was a mean ugly fella and called him a dirty skunk and an ornery pig stealer.

    The folks that really knowed him Knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore There beat a heart as big as all outdoors. Jud Fry loved his fellow man.

    He loved the birds of the forest, And the beasts of the fields, He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn And he treated the rats like equals (which was right) He loved all the little children, He loved everything and everybody in the world, Only . . . only he never let on And nobody ever knowed it.

    Poor Jud is dead, Poor Jud Fry is dead
    His friends are weepin’ wail for miles around
    The daisies in the dell, Will give out a different smell
    Because poor Jud is underneath the ground

    Poor Jud is dead, A candle lights his head
    He’s layin’ in a coffin made of wood
    And folks are feelin’ sad, ‘Cuz they used to treat him bad
    And now they know their friend has gone for good

    Poor Jud is dead, A candle lights his head
    He’s lookin’ oh so purty and so nice
    He looks like he’s asleep, It’s a shame that he won’t keep
    But it’s summer and we’re runnin’ out a’ ice

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  2. Dead traitor eulogy songs.

    Jet Plane, sung by John Denver
    I Start the Fire (but Somebody Else Puts it Out)
    They Shot Me Down
    I Left My Heart in Hanoi
    I’m Leavin’ You
    If You Don’t Like It
    Doctor Doctor Give Me the News

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  3. Oh, thank you so much for posting this! Got a big one for Christmas when I was a kid and spent many, many enjoyable hours playing it. Great memories, and now I’m all teary-eyed.

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