When the sun goes down

[trof]

And the tide goes out,
People gather 'round,
And they all begin to shout

Question: What do they shout?

[Dookus]

1. Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud!

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

[Richardo]

5. OK trof, you're the tie-breaker: Dud or Fudd?

The fate of the world rests on your answer...

[trof]

6. Bingo! Here it is:

When the sun goes down, the tide goes out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".
What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand...
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud,
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.
Lordy, how they play it!
Goodness, how they sway it!
Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim,
How they pound the mire with vigor and vim!
Joy! that music thrills me!
Boy! it nearly kills me!
What a show when they go!
Say! they beat it up either fast or slow.When the sun goes down, the tide goes
out,
The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout,
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud,
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud".
What a dance do they do!
Lordy, how I'm tellin' you...
They don't need no band...
They keep time by clappin' their hand.
Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud.
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud.

[Richardo]

7. Actually, I think it's been sanitized for 21st century sensibilities...

Pretty sure "people" used to be a more racist term or terms. :shrug:

[trof]

8. Right inclination - wrong direction

A later version used a word that rhymes with "feet".

[Richardo]

9. HA!

[Richardo]

2. Hey hey Uncle Fudd...

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud. :D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. I don't know, but the first thing that came to mind was

"When the sun goes do-own...the dial lights up."

[Richardo]

4. First thing *I* thought of was "Under the Boardwalk"

:)

[northofdenali]

10. And my first thought was.........

AW SHIT IT'S WINTER AGAIN.................... (We're up to about 19 hours of daylight and 3 hours of good dusk......)

[trof]

11. Coming out of Darwin's in Anchorage at 10 p.m.

into broad daylight.
Weird.

[Richardo]

12. Hey! I've done that!

Was there in the summer of 1982-ish I think. Overcast the whole time, but you could tell it was still light outside.

[trof]

13. '89-'99

Was flying for Nippon Cargo and had a lot of Anchorage layovers.
You've been to Darwin's?

[Richardo]

15. Pretty sure! That was a long time and many brain cells ago...

But the name sounds mighty familiar...

[northofdenali]

14. We get about an hour and half more here.........

And play a minor-league baseball game at midnight on Solstice (June 21) without lights.

But Fairbanksans are infinitely weirder than Anchoragites!