"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." - Charlie Chaplin

Saturday, May 03, 2008

I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust

This line has been stuck in my head since watching the CSI Season 7 'Miniature Killer' last episode. It was part of a poem she eerily recited while in interrogation, as Sarah lies unconscious in the desert under a car. Whoever wrote it must have been in a lot of pain. Wikipedia says it's actually part of a popular song from the early 1900s.

The part used in the CSI episode are in italics. Creeps me out. And it's still stuck in my head.
A little bisque doll and a little rag doll
And a dolly imported from France
Were sitting one day on the shelf of the store
With a doll that could wind up and dance
When all of a sudden, the shopkeeper heard
A scream that rang out thro' the store
And this was the plaint of the little bisque doll
That made such an awful uproar

I've got a pain in my sawdust
That's what's the matter with me
Something is wrong with my little inside
I'm just as sick as can be
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan
Someone else run for the medicine man
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can
I've got a pain in my sawdust

They took her away in a hospital van
And the whole town was filled with the blues
For ev'ryone thought it was quite an odd thing
And the papers all printed the news
The surgeons looked wise and they all shook their heads
And asked her just where she was sick
"I think it's 'appendi-sawdust'!", she exclaimed
"And won't you please do something quick?"

Oh, sad was the day for the little bisque doll
For they cut all her stitches away
and found the seat of the terrible ache
"'Twas a delicate task," they all say
For none of the surgeons had ever before
Performed on a dolly's inside
They tried to re-stuff her but didn't know how
And this was her wail as she died

I've got a pain in my sawdust
That's what's the matter with me
Something is wrong with my little inside
I'm just as sick as can be
Don't let me faint, someone get me a fan
Someone else run for the medicine man
Ev'ryone hurry as fast as you can
I've got a pain in my sawdust

She had a pain in her sawdust.

By: Henry Edward Warner

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