State Laughs 🤍 🖨️ 🎸
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Category:Fun
Link:Performance Example
Notes:Tom Chapin cover. Have the group ham up each state's distinct laugh - ho ho ho, hee hee hee, haw haw haw, nyuk nyuk nyuk, oh what fun - and pile them on cumulatively like the verse builds.

GI told a joke in Idaho

They liked my joke and rD7eally let me know.

'Cause in CIdaho they go, "GHo ho ho!"

And D7roll on the Gfloor.


GSo then I went to Tennessee.

I told my joke. They gD7reeted it with glee.

But in CTennessee they go, "GHee hee hee!"

In ICdaho they go, "GHo ho ho!"

And D7roll on the fGloor.


GWell, next I went to Arkansas.

I told my joke and gD7ot a big guffaw.

In CArkansas they go, "GHaw haw haw!"

In CTennessee they go, "GHee hee hee!"

In CIdaho they go, "GHo ho ho!"

And D7roll on the fGloor.


GI tried my luck in old Kentuck.

GThey heard my joke

And D7they were thunderstruck!

But in Cold Kentuck they go, "GNyuk nyuk nyuk!"

In CArkansas they go, "HGaw haw haw!"

In CTennessee they go, "GHee hee hee!"

In CIdaho they go, "GHo ho ho!"

And rD7oll on the Gfloor.


GMy joke went big in Washington,

Where "Ho ho ho's" are D7hardly ever done.

In CWashington they go, "OGh, what fun!"

In Cold Kentuck they go, "GNyuk nyuk nyuk!"

CIn Arkansas they go, "GHaw haw haw!"

CIn Tennessee they go, G"Hee hee hee!"

CIn Idaho, well, by Gnow you know,

They rD7oll on the floor.


GI came back home to Delaware.

I told my joke and D7all they did was stare.


NC

It was very upsetting...

'Cause in CWashington they go, "GOh, what fun!"

In old CKentuck they go, "GNyuk nyuk nyuk!"

In CArkansas they go, "GHaw haw haw!"

In CTennessee they go, "GHee hee hee!"

In CIdaho they go, "GHo ho ho!"

In aD7ll those places, they scrunch up their faces,

And roll on the Gfloor.


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