Johnny Verbeck or the little dutchman sausage machine.

I don’t remember how it came up, but some of us were standing around talking about something the other day and I remembered the song Johnny Verbeck

No one else had ever heard it, so I went  on an internet hunt.  I found several versions.:

http://ingeb.org/songs/johnnyve.html

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/johnnyverbeck.html

http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/engl12/folksong/john.html

http://barrygoldberg.net/sillysongs/sausages.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/michellrene/scrapbook.html

http://kristinhall.org/songbook/Silly/DunderbecksMachine.pdf

This is how I remember it

There was a jolly Dutchman,
His name was Johnny Verbeck.
He made the finest sausages
And sauerkraut and speck.
He made the finest sausages
The and sauerkraut ever seen,
Then one day he invented
A sausage meat machine.

Chorus:

Oh, Mr. Johnny Verbeck
How could you be so mean.
I told you you'd be sorry for
Inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbors' cats and dogs
Will never more be seen.
They'll all be ground to sausages
In Johnny Verbecks' machine.                       

 One day a boy came walking,
A walking in the store

He ordered up some sausages
And piled them on the floor.
The boy began to whistle,
He whistled up a tune.
And all the little sausages
They danced around the room .

Chorus:

One day the darn thing busted

The darn thing wouldn't go.
So Johnny Verbeck, he climbed inside
To see what made it so.
His wife, she had a nightmare
And walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank a heck of a yank
And Johnny Verbeck was meat.

Chorus

And so was he.