Pop scholars alert: You can go on YouTube and find a variety of ukulele players strumming a variation of “Has Anybody Seen My Gal?” which goes “Has Anybody Seen My Cow?”
Little do they know that there is a song from 1933 which uses that same line, “Has anybody seen my cow?,” non-parodically (though nonetheless comically), and has a Shakespearean twist in its second verse besides.
The song is “Farmer Jones,” by Dick Sanford and George McConnell, whose other immortal works include “When It’s Pie Plant Time in Texas,” “Someone’s Been Walking on Poor Mother’s Grave,” “The Wouldn’t Song” (about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity,” the drinking song “Drunk Song,” and my personal favorite, “I’m Just an Old Son of a Bum,” which has this lyric:
A college inquired once if I had been to YALE
Come give me that again, says I, did you say YALE or JAIL
But back to “Farmer Jones:”
Down at the op’ry house the other night
They’re tellin’ me
A Romeo and Juliet were sparkin’
Like two bees
When Juliet kissed Romeo
He cried “You’ve made me wise”
Then suddenly a voice rang out
It said, “If you’re so wise…
“I’ve been lookin’ all around
Since she went and left my ground
Can ya tell me here and now
Has anybody seen my cow?”
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