The cast of Johnny Ostrich and His American Songbag - 2002 includes: Everett Alex as Old Man Brian Berta as Johnny Ostrich Amy Beth Paybe as Lucy Amy Beth Payne as Wilma Conor Coughlin as Archer Nicholas Dobbin as Boy Sofia Strehlow as Lucy Bill Telfer as Alberius Dan Telfer as Dentry
Dorothy May has written: 'Windblown' 'Dulcimer songbag study guide' 'Dulcimer Classicks' 'Nursery school education'
He wrote poems such as " Autumn Movement", "Back Yard", "Caboose Thoughts", 'Chicago" (which is one of his more famous poems), "Fog", "My Baby Girl", "I am the people, the mob", "Style", "I sang", and so on. For more just look the poet up on poets.org.
I learned two different versions of it, one is not so nice, the other is better. Here they are: La cucaracha, la cucaracha, Ya no puede caminar. Porque no tiene, porque le falta, La marijuana que fumar. And the nicer one: La cucaracha, la cucaracha, Ya no puede caminar, Porque no tiene, porque le faltan Las dos patitas de atrás. The first one says he can't walk because he has no marijuana (as if that makes any sense!) and the second one says he can't walk because he doesn't have two back feet. LOL ------ There are hundreds of verses to this traditional Mexican Folk song. The use of Marijuana in the quoted stanza is referring to its pain-killing and... what's the word? "forgetting" properties. In other words, the soldier is weary and footsore, but smoking marijuana makes his (or in some versions, her) feet stop hurting and makes them forget their troubles--they can keep right on marching (or dancing or whatever). The second quote is a kid's version, where "La Cucaracha" is just a cockroach, no metaphor involved.