Songs by Holly Tannen: Goin' Native

Goin' Native

new words copyright 1996 Holly Tannen
tune: Makin' Whoopee
Original words by Gus Kahn; music by Walter Donaldson

For Sabina Magliocco, on the occasion of her receiving a Guggenheim
Foundation grant to study neo-pagan religious ritual.

Another Beltane, another May
Another folklorist has come to stay
She thinks it's thrilling that we're so willing
She's goin' native.

She's got her abstract, she's got her grant
She's learned a neo-pagan chant
The news is leaking, her mother's freaking
She's goin' native.

(chorus)
Picture a sweet young scholar
Getting her PhD
Picture that same young scholar
After a year or three

She's going skyclad and riding brooms
She's doing strange things with mushrooms
Tell her professor he can't suppress her
She's goin' native...

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updated 26 February 2002 : 15:32 Caspar (Pacific) time

Another Beltane, another May Another folklorist has come to stay She thinks it's thrilling that we're so willing She's goin' native.

She's got her abstract, she's got her grant She's learned a neo-pagan chant The news is leaking, her mother's freaking She's goin' native.

(chorus)	Picture a sweet young scholar Getting her PhD Picture that same young scholar After a year or three

She's going skyclad and riding brooms She's doing strange things with mushrooms Tell her professor he can't suppress her She's goin' native...