Photo of the day:
We saw Goats while driving the "Highway to the Sun" in Montana
So for today:
I promised the lyrics of Grandma’s Lye Soap, here it is….
GRANDMA'S LYE SOAP
(John Standley and Art Thorson)
Do you remember Grandma's LyeSoap?
Good for everything, everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbin'
It wouldn't suds; It wouldn't foam.
Mrs.
O'Mally, Down in the valley
Suffered from ulcers, I understand
She swallowed a cake, of Grandma's LyeSoap
Now she's got the cleanest ulcers in the land!
Little Herman and Brother Thurman
Had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with the LyeSoap
And they haven't heard a word in years.
So sing right out for grandma's LyeSoap
Good for everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbin'
'Cause it didn't suds or foam.
So
sing right out for Gramdma's LyeSoap
(Sing it loud and clear)
Good for everything, everything in the place
The pots and kettles, the dirty dishes
And for the hands and for the face.
The end!
I remember mama started using Rinso in the 1940s and I
had a ball in my tin tub bath with Ivory
Nite Shipslog
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6 comments:
I have never heard that song. Also, I imagine lye soap is rough. I like ivory soap, but it leaves soap rings.
I enjoyed that song. I wonder if it is on You Tube.
God bless.
This was fun! Now I'm going to ask Tom if he remembers. Thanks for the smiles!
No, I don't remember the song. I used to use ivory soap for my kids, they loved to see it flooting in the tub and it didn't get lost down under the water.
I think lye soap is the same as what we called brown soap. When I got poison ivy as a kid my mother would rub it on and the poison ivy would dry up.
My grandma made lye soap until the 40s. It wasn't all that easy to do. Ashes and lard? Mom talked about the soap not fondly.
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