Give it to him good, Perry,
give it to him good!
Get away, you no -count nothings,
With your silly jokes and prattle.
If you packed all your brains
in a butterfly's head,
They'd still have room to rattle.
Give it to him good, Perry,
give it to him good!
Tell him something that'll
warn him!
Get away, you rouse about riff -raff,
With your bellies full of grog.
If you packed all your brains
in a poliwog's head,
He'd never even grow to be a frog!
No, a poliwog could never be a frog!
That'll warn him! Darn him!
Now, just a minute, ladies,
you've got no call to fret,
We only ask politely if
you was ready yet.
We'd kinda like this clam -egg
to get an early start,
And wanted fur to tell you
we ran and done our part.
Look at them clowns!
Indignant, upset saddles!
Look at them clowns!
All ready for the blows!
Look at them clowns!
They're all bored out and done us!
An d what's more, we're
hungry as ghosts!
You'll get no drinks or fiddles
Till we get across the bay,
So pull in your belts and
the lip -bombs
And let's get underway!
The sooner we sail, the sooner we start
To wrap across the bay!
Here, boys, here's some
donuts and coffee!
All two! Donuts! Hooray!
Now come on, let me in!
Let me in!
Get out of here now!
Don't jump at it
like he was a lot of animals
in a menagerie!
Nettie! Doreen's just telling him.
What you doing that for?
They've been digging clams
since five this morning.
I see them myself down on the beach.
After the way they've been pestering
and an noying you?
Nettie, you're a soft -hearted ninny.
Oh, you can't blame them.
First clam bake of the year,
they're always like this.
It's like unlocking a door,
and all the crazy notions
they kept shut up for the winter come
whoopin' out into the sunshine.
This year's just like every other.
March went out like a lion,
a -whippin' up the water in the bay.
Then April cried and stepped aside,
and along come pretty little May.
May was full of promises,
but she didn't keep them quick
enough for some.
And a crowd of doubt in' Thomases
was predicting that the
summer'd never come.
But it's come by gum,
you can feel it come.
You can feel it in your heart,
you can see it in the ground.
You can hear it in the trees,
you can smell it in the breeze.
Look around, look around, look around!
June is busting out all over,
all over the meadow and the hill.
But they're bustin' out of bushes
and the roppin' river bushes,
Every little will that wills
beside a man.
June is bustin' out all over,
And the feeding is getting so in tense
That the young Virginia
creakers
have been huggin' the bejeepers
Out of all the morning glor
ies on the face,
Because it's June! June! June! Jun e! June!
June! June! June!
Fresh and alive and gay and young,
Jun e is love's song, sweetest song.
June is bustin' out all over.
The saplings are
bustin' up with sap.
Love has found my brother Junior.
And my sister's even loonier.
And my ma is gettin' kittenish
with Pat.
Junior's bustin' out all over.
The two ladies are better
payin' court.
Lots of ships have kept at anchor
Just because the chems hanker.
For comfort they can
only get in court.
Because it's June, June, June, June,
Just because it's June, June, June.
June makes the bay
look bright and new,
Sails gleam in white on sunlit blue.
June is bustin' out all over.
The ocean is full of jacks and jibs.
With her little tail a -swishin',
every lady fish is wishin'
That a male would come and
grab her by the gills.
June is bustin' out all over.
The sheep aren't
sleepin' any more.
All the rams that chase the new sheep
are determined there'll be new sheep.
And you sheep aren't even
keepin' school!
I had it due, due, due, due,
Just because it's June,
June, June!