Johnny Verbeck

Johnny Verbeck, the greatest Dutchman ever. Trivia: In Dutch the word would be pronouced "fairbake."

This song is properly sung after a meal when sausage or a sausage-like substance is served. A small piece of the sausage is kept on the plate until the end of the meal. When it is time to sing the song the sausage is speared on the end of a fork and waved around in the air while singing.

Chorus:
Oh Mr. Mr. Johnny Verbeck, how could you be so mean? I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine. Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen cause they've all been ground to sausages in Johnny Verbeck's machine.

Verse 1:
Oh once there was a Dutchman, his name was Johnny Verbeck. He made the finest sausages and sauerkraut to spec. One day he invented a sausage-making machine, now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen.

Verse 2:
Oh once there was a fat boy (arms in a circle at waist level) who walked into the store. He bought a pound of sausages and laid them on the floor. The boy began to whistle, he whistled up a tune. Now all the little sausages went dancing around the room.
(Skip around the room while singing this chorus. Sometimes people link arms and spin in a circle for this chorus too.)

Verse 3:
One day the machine got busted, the darn thing wouldn't go. So Johnny Verbeck HE CLIMBED INSIDE (mimic pulling your head through a window) to see what made it so. His wife, she had a nightmare (arms straight out like a zombie), was walking in her sleep. She gave the crank a HECK OF A YANK (mimic jerking a lever back) and Johnny Verbeck was meat.

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[smokeyrainbows]

An odd, yet funny tune. Nice timely instructions for the best time to sing it! (My grade school teacher in MI taught us this song and I still remember it!