Crispy Critters Song C.W. McCall

[stapav1]

Yes it is a true story And you are rite on evryone from around ouray are good as gold!!!

[72BLANDU]

the mayor was a space cadet.

[grnmn883]

@72BLANDU yeah the only part missing lol

[zaaritha]

Great lyrics!

[yodpeh]

I see where rapp comes from.

[stevej71393]

Boy, let me explain the situation to you:

A. You're getting me down.

B. We've got a leash law here.

C. You're in the wrong town.

You drop one string of beads in that there park and you'll see a lot of stars. You've got 15 seconds to leave this town or we'll blow you to Mars.

[case139]

Great song by CW (should have been a bigger hit with it), but you could have included the last few seconds of this.

[TrevComix]

Oh gayness, you dont even have the full song goddammit.

[user208351]

This song is based on a real event from the late 1960s, when a band of hippies rolled into Ouray and decided to stay.

The Rest of the Story: the hippies left Ouray, and moved down the road to Telluride.

"Crispy Critters" is also the name of the unofficial C.W. McCall fan club.

[everytimeidie2]

this song is awesome!!! i remeber the first time i heard it i was 9 and ever since then i was hooked on CW

[blackadder84]

I remember growing up with this song and others such as I had an old cat named roy and little brown sparrow! Awesome

[whyusshow]

my dogs name is crispy

[afdonier]

Sagittarius we has arrived, man

[leeshu55]

Bobby Thompsan played the Banjo for most all CW MCall Songs , RIP

[Winonasalibi]

I LOVED Bill's (CWs) Music growing up. I even stopped off in Ouray a couple years ago trying to track him down to tell him how much his music meant to me and my dad (one of the few things we could agree on in the car) but they said he was wintering in Arizona...oh well.

[lifewarrior2375]

fricken hippies and dogs

[stiffieann]

i luv this song

[STIGMATAROCKS666]

it cut off the last line. " and the mayor was a space-cadet"

[user208351]

Bill says this is based on a real event from the late 1960s, when a band of hippies rolled into Ouray and decided to stay.

Al, of Als Conoco, was the mayor of Ouray back in the sixties, and we all watched as he ran those hippies outa town. He laughed and said they settled in Telluride.

Any one who is interested can write

Bill Fries PO Box E, Ouray, CO 81427

Bill is one heck of a guy and we look forward to seeing him in July.

He just had his 80th Birth day on November 15.

[darbeerathbun]

So, did you make it to Ouray for the 4th of July? I was there. I ate at Billy Goat's Gruff (the bartender was smokin HOT!), got raffle tickets for the jeep, and left while the water fight was still going on. Coming back, down Wolf Creek Pass, I found a huge pile of rocks with columbines growing all over it. All in all, it was a damn fine trip.

[user208351]

No I didn't get back there yet this year. Still looking for a place to move in to. Looks like I might be moving in the winter :-(

Would love to of seen and heard the fire works. They are supposed to be something else! I love how the columbines grow in so many different colors.

[Joekickass3000]

@user208351 Great comment, it is true though. Nothing but hippies in Telluride and Ouray is one of the best colorado mountian towns that can be found

[KeathGraham]

I performed this as a monologue in an acting class in the early 90s. While every other student was reciting Shakespeare or Hemingway, my retelling of this song as a monologue cracked everyone up and earned me a top grade.

[StormwolfKymarah]

Haha. My lil sisters and I had this whole song memorized as kids...

"Had an old cat named Roy.

Roy was a good ol' boy-

usedta go fishin' down by the lake,

catch 'im a nice fresh garter snake.

Bring it on back, sit in th' grass

lookin' like he had 'im a green mustache.

Yeah, Roy was a good ol' boy...

'Til th' dogs got 'im"

[jaydebird123]

i liked roy by c.w. mcall

[1926jqg]

sagiturius we have arrived prepare to disembark, get out the incense and sitars we're going to camp in the city park man

[hoodboy063]

what happend to the end of it? i like that song it sounds like everything thats been happening today! i had some "crispy Critters" move in next door to me and now they are trying to wreak havoc with anyhting i do on my property! what the heck! great song !

[kdraper2007]

time to get out the flintgun!

[mushroom0311]

The last word or two were cut it seems. This is one of my all-time CW songs.

The last line was "And the mayor was a space cadet". Which is ironic, considering a few years after this song came out, a cult took over (legally) the town of Antelope, Oregon... naming it Rajneeshpuram.

[fontheking5]

Great Song , I like C.W. McCall