{"id":5052,"date":"2024-03-23T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:06:40","slug":"aint-we-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/aint-we-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain&#8217;t We Crazy (Haywire Mac McClintock)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ain&#039;t We Crazy (Haywire Mac McClintock)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPdRCHUbX4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t We Crazy&#8221; is a compendium of old joke rhymes I picked up from a 1928 recording by Harry &#8220;Haywire Mac&#8221; McClintock, the composer (or compiler, or at least official claimant) of the hobo classics\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/hallelujah-im-bum\/\">Hallelujah, I&#8217;m a Bum<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/big-rock-candy\/\">Big Rock Candy Mountain<\/a>,&#8221; and <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2916 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Macs-songs.jpg?resize=200%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/>likewise my source for another absurd novelty, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/trusty-lariat\/\">The Cowboy Fireman<\/a>&#8221; (a.k.a. &#8220;The Trusty Lariat&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of nonsense verse like this circulating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries &#8212; my father, born in 1906, used to recite a Yiddish dialect parody of &#8220;The Face on the Barroom Floor&#8221; called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/jake.html\">Jake the Plumber<\/a>,&#8221; which began similarly:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Tvas a balmy summer&#8217;s ivning, but zirro &#8216;tvas below,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>De ren vas falling brightly, end de sun vas shining snow&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed clever, complicated lyrics, and this one felt like a connection to a world of nimble folk rhymesters &#8212; vernacular Cole Porters &#8212; plus, at the time I was living with a woman who had childhood memories of her father reciting a version, and she enjoyed it. 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