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Ghost of Stephen Foster Lyrics

Artist: Squirrel Nut Zippers
Album: Perennial Favorites

Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise
This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes:
Rooms were made for carpets,
Towers made for spires,
Ships were made for cannonade fire off from inside them
(Chorus): Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no (End Chorus)
(Chorus)
Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise
This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes:
Ships were made for sinking,
Whiskey made for drinking,
If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk quite faster ha, ha, ha
(Chorus)
(Chorus)

Comments/Interpretations

by Porkchop on 9/18/2008 9:17pm
Its about nothing being as it seems

by Queen Freaky on 7/11/2009 4:38pm
To refute Porkchop's comment, the song is about Stephen Foster, a composer from the mid-nineteenth century. He's the one who wrote "Camptown Races" and "Oh, Suzannah"...

by internetman on 4/5/2010 9:48am
good plan, queen freaky. open up wikipedia and come up with the most likely scenario, then provide it as fact.

by A. Chump on 4/9/2010 2:00pm
Ooh, internet arguments!

Amazing song though..

by stinky louise on 5/7/2010 10:55pm
How very pretentious to use the word refute, Queen! Perhaps to Porkchop, this song IS about nothing being as it seems. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, my friend. Stephen Foster may be a running theme in the song, but you can't surely say that this is all the songs is about!

by stinky louise on 5/7/2010 10:56pm
How very pretentious to use the word refute, Queen! Perhaps to Porkchop, this song IS about nothing being as it seems. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, my friend. Stephen Foster may be a running theme in the song, but you can't surely say that this is all the song is about!

by chud on 7/16/2010 5:21pm
All of you suck.

by J. on 8/20/2010 12:14pm
"All of you suck."
HAHAhahahahahahahahahaha
IT'S FUNNY CUZ IT'S TRUUUUUUUUUUE!!!!!!

by Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious on 10/2/2010 8:21am
Catchy song !

by mrguize on 10/6/2010 1:25pm
why is that comments never seem to comment on the actual subject but on how much you dislike eachother

by boo on 10/28/2010 12:46am
WE'D ALL GET STINKING DRUNK QUITE FASTER HAHAHA

no we would probably die much faster though

by dragon fire on 4/10/2011 12:58pm
dang i only under stud what they were say for like...half the song.

by Stephen Foster on 10/16/2011 7:09pm
I don't understand this song. I mean, I'm not dead yet.

by Suuuuppppooo on 3/18/2014 7:15pm
Had to listen to this for school. Now I'm obsessed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!