🚀 go-pugleaf

Steven <thisjukeboxplays33rpm@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Jun 23, 7:35 pm, Lobby Dosser <lobby.dosser.map...@verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > pjb...@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg) wrote:
> >
> > > PTA Chairperson Haley Hughes said that she supports the school's no
> > > touching rule. "Touching leads to petting, and petting leads to
> > > kissing, and kissing leads to intercourse."
> >
> > [
> > I say that any boob kin take
> > And shove a ball in a pocket.
> > And they call that sloth.
> > The first big step on the road
> > To the depths of deg-ra-Day--
> > I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
> > Then beer from a bottle.
> > An' the next thing ya know,
> > Your son is playin' for money
> > In a pinch-back suit.
> > And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
> > Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'.
> > Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
> > But a race where they set down right on the horse!
> > Like to see some stuck-up jockey'boy
> > Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
> > Well, I should say.
> > Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
> > Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
> > Pockets that mark the diff'rence
> > Between a gentlemen and a bum,
> > With a capital "B,"
> > And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool! ...
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes
> > On while they're loafin' around that Hall?
> > They're tryin' out Bevo, tryin' out cubebs,
> > Tryin' out Tailor Mades like Cigarette Feends!
> > And braggin' all about
> > How they're gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
> > One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
> > Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
> > Libertine men and Scarlet women!
> > And Rag-time, shameless music
> > That'll grab your son and your daughter
> > With the arms of a jungle animal instink!
> > Mass-staria!
> > Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground!
> >
> > ....
> >
> > People:
> > Trouble, oh we got trouble,
> > Right here in River City!
> > With a capital "T"
> > That rhymes with "P"
> > And that stands for Pool,
> > That stands for pool.
> > We've surely got trouble!
> > Right here in River City,
> > Right here!
> > Gotta figger out a way
> > To keep the young ones moral after school!
> > Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
> >
> > ]
> 
> Are you SURE Andy Griffith won't sue you?

Why would Andy Griffith sue when the lyrics were written by Meridith
Wilson, with Robert Preston playing "Professor" Harold Hill in the
original Broadway production? Did Griffith obtain the copyright at
some point?

BTW, the fair use provision allows parodies, and in this case it is a
parody of satire - the original story about the "no touching rule" is
an obvious fake (read the part about the prom being held in a prison).