GOOD MORNING MR. ZIP ZIP ZIP

Here's another song my mom used to sing to us, only when she sang it to us girls, it was "Mrs Zip Zip Zip. She only sang the first line though and then would improvise with a second line of "What makes you wake so soon?" I think she intertwined this song and the nursery rhyme "A Dillar, A Dollar, A Ten O'clock Scholar". I found several versions of this song, but this is the version that the sheet music is written in. YouTube had a third version of this also. I decided to post this video of the Lawrence Welk Show because he just mostly sings the chorus. I can remember watching the Lawrence Welk Show every week. I think my parents liked it, so us kids just watched it too. I posted the words to the sheet music version below the video.

We come from ev'ry quarter,
From North, South, East and West,
To clear the way to freedom
For the land we love the best.
We've left our occupations
and home, so far and dear,
But when the going's rather rough,
We raise this song in cheer:


[chorus: repeat twice]
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as mine,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You're surely looking fine!
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
If the Camels don't get you,
The Fatimas must,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as mine.


You see them on the highway,
You meet them down the pike,
In olive drab and khaki
Are soldiers on the hike;
And as the column passes,
The word goes down the line,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You're surely looking fine.

[repeat chorus twice]

The reference to "Camels" and "Fatimas" (fa-tee'-mas) are references to popular brands cigarettes of the time.