In order to keep the poetry coming this holiday weekend, I’ll post this classic from Little Richard. I first heard this recited by Steve Allen, in a melding of the music and poetry worlds years before Bob Dylan.
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
I’ve got a gal, named Sue
She know just what to do
I got a gal, named Sue
She knows just what to do
She rocks to the east
She rolls to the west
She’s the gal that I love best
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
I’ve got a gal, named Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
I’ve got a gal, named Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me
Yes indeed, boy you don’t know
What she’s doin’ to me
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
I’ve got a gal named Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
I’ve got a gal, named Daisy
She almost drives me crazy
She knows how to love me
Yes indeed, boy you don’t know
What she’s doin’ to me
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
Tutti frutti, oh rudy
A-bop-bop-a-loom-op a-lop-bop-boom
Random Misanthrope 
Though aggravatingly still,
Steve Allen was clearly mocking rock n roll lyics
an egoist, and self aclaimed “genius”
Allen surely Stupidly
missed the point
Welcome, namelessneed.
If it helps, Dock Ellis and I are having a case of the sillies and posting a lot of snark and satire. I hope you enjoy the actual poets on this site, though. They are really talented.
aw shucks, Y’all are with the snarky steve allen camp
is my face red/ when yrs should be
rock and roll BROUGHT poetry to the sixties
my ‘with it” teachers had us listening to leonard cohen & paul simon & keith reid
be bop a loo ah
My with it teachers did, as well. 🙂
I suppose we should be happy that Dock didn’t trot out Shatner’s Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.