Joe's Got a Head Like a Ping-Pong Ball

DESCRIPTION: "(Joe's/Papa's/I've/X) got a head like a ping-pong ball (x3), Ping-pong ping-pong ball. Joe's got a head like a ping-pong ping-pong ping-pong ping-pong ping-pong ball (x2)." The rest, if there is any, may talk about William Tell and or Rossini
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1988 (Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook)
KEYWORDS: nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, pp. 152-153, "Joe's Got a Head Like a Ping-Pong Ball" (1 text, tune referenced)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 166, 310, "Harry Has a Head like a Ping Pong Ball" (notes only)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" ("The Lone Ranger" theme) (tune)
NOTES [86 words]: Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs notes that almost all versions of this have different names (presumably to tease someone). I have to wonder if Garrison Keillor didn't have something to do with the William Tell/Rossini part in the Pankake text.
Nigel Parsons, on the mudcat.org thread "Lyr Add: I've got a head like a ping-pong ball," says that his source produced a second verse by reversing the words "ping" and "pong," resulting in "massive confusion." I'll bet. But it surely makes the song much more interesting. - RBW
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