The Purple People Eater
Sheb Wooley Lyrics
Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple eater to me
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
"I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough"
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one horn?)
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?
He said "eatin' purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I want to get a job in a rock and roll band"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, under-growed, flyin' purple people eater
(We wear short shorts) friendly little people eater
What a sight to see (oh!)
And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
And he started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
(Sing a boop-boop, a-boopa lopa lum bam boom)
Well, bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, under growed, flyin' purple people eater
"I like short shorts!" flyin' purple people eater
What a sight to see (purple people?)
Well, he went on his way, and then what do ya know?
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head
"Tequila!"
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Written by: Sheb Wooley
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Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty hit "Purple People Eater".
Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma and grew up on a farm. He learned how to ride horses at a young age, and was working cowboy and rodeo rider. He also played in a country-western band. During WWII, Wooley was turned down for service because of his rodeo injuries. He worked in the oil industry and as a welder. Read Full BioShelby F. "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty hit "Purple People Eater".
Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma and grew up on a farm. He learned how to ride horses at a young age, and was working cowboy and rodeo rider. He also played in a country-western band. During WWII, Wooley was turned down for service because of his rodeo injuries. He worked in the oil industry and as a welder. In 1946, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas and became a country and western musician.
Wooley appeared in dozens of western films from the 1950s through 1970s, most notably High Noon. He also appeared in The Outlaw Josey Wales and Giant. He also co-starred as Pete in the TV Western Rawhide.
In the late 1950s, he embarked on a recording career, and recorded the song that made him famous. Wooley followed up "People Eater" with a series of lesser-known novelty hits. Wooley also wrote the theme song for the long-running television show "Hee Haw".
He was a regular on Hee Haw as the drunken country songwriter Ben Colder. The Colder persona became popular and he released music and performed under that name as well as his own.
The Ben Colder persona was created after an incident in which Sheb Wooley was supposed to record the song Don't Go Near The Indians but was delayed due to an acting job. During the delay Rex Allen recorded the song and scored a hit, and so Sheb Wooley told people that he didn't mind - he would do the sequel. His version was Don't Go Near the Eskimos, about a boy who lives in Alaska, and as an extra joke he used the name Ben Colder (as in living in Alaska means he had never Been Colder). The single was so successful he continued using the persona for another forty years, with one of his last recording being Shaky Breaky Car (which parodies the song Achy Breaky Heart)
He is considered by many to be the most likely voice actor for the Wilhelm scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for Distant Drums. This particular recording of a scream has been used by sound effects teams in over 80 films.
Wooley continued occasional television and film appearances through the 1990s. In 1996 he was diagnosed with leukemia, and died at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee in 2003.
Wooley is buried in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma and grew up on a farm. He learned how to ride horses at a young age, and was working cowboy and rodeo rider. He also played in a country-western band. During WWII, Wooley was turned down for service because of his rodeo injuries. He worked in the oil industry and as a welder. Read Full BioShelby F. "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty hit "Purple People Eater".
Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma and grew up on a farm. He learned how to ride horses at a young age, and was working cowboy and rodeo rider. He also played in a country-western band. During WWII, Wooley was turned down for service because of his rodeo injuries. He worked in the oil industry and as a welder. In 1946, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas and became a country and western musician.
Wooley appeared in dozens of western films from the 1950s through 1970s, most notably High Noon. He also appeared in The Outlaw Josey Wales and Giant. He also co-starred as Pete in the TV Western Rawhide.
In the late 1950s, he embarked on a recording career, and recorded the song that made him famous. Wooley followed up "People Eater" with a series of lesser-known novelty hits. Wooley also wrote the theme song for the long-running television show "Hee Haw".
He was a regular on Hee Haw as the drunken country songwriter Ben Colder. The Colder persona became popular and he released music and performed under that name as well as his own.
The Ben Colder persona was created after an incident in which Sheb Wooley was supposed to record the song Don't Go Near The Indians but was delayed due to an acting job. During the delay Rex Allen recorded the song and scored a hit, and so Sheb Wooley told people that he didn't mind - he would do the sequel. His version was Don't Go Near the Eskimos, about a boy who lives in Alaska, and as an extra joke he used the name Ben Colder (as in living in Alaska means he had never Been Colder). The single was so successful he continued using the persona for another forty years, with one of his last recording being Shaky Breaky Car (which parodies the song Achy Breaky Heart)
He is considered by many to be the most likely voice actor for the Wilhelm scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for Distant Drums. This particular recording of a scream has been used by sound effects teams in over 80 films.
Wooley continued occasional television and film appearances through the 1990s. In 1996 he was diagnosed with leukemia, and died at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee in 2003.
Wooley is buried in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "Ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple people eater to me
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
Well he came down to earth and he laid in the tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
"I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough"
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one horn?)
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?
And he said, "Eatin' purple people and it sure is fine"
But that's not the reason that I came to land
"I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
(We wear short shorts)
Friendly little people eater
What a sight to see
And then he swung from the tree and he laid on the ground
And he started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
"Sing a bop-bop aboopa-lopa, loom bam-boom"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
"I like short shorts"
Flyin' purple people eater
Quite a sight to see (purple people?)
Well he went on his way, and then what do ya know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, a-really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head
Thomas Duff McGready
Still a great true brilliant forever classic always without fail or doubt guaranteed.
A song for all ages and the child inside many of us.
Anyone who doesn't love songs like this are only holding onto something from there past.
They only always see and think of the doom and gloom downside sadness and aren't ever happy with the many great brilliant good things of the world and many great brilliant beautiful people.
Those who aren't ever happy are only holding onto something bad and wrong and they just won't ever let go.
They believe it's only them the wrong and bad happened to and no one else went through that same harm pain.
They believe it's only them on this planet who suffers and no one cares.
There's an illness that those are born with who can't ever laugh. The illness stops them from laughing.
Now that i can understand very well.
But for others who don't and wasn't born with that same illness who just won't laugh at and find songs like this funny.
They who only find funny and laugh at all adults filth stand up disgusting cursed swear shouting screaming.
Out of control rubbish trash garbage.
Did they not ever have a normal growing up childhood.
Was they draged up and not raised up.
There's many men and women who are and was always a young child at heart, spirit, soul,
TV film and pop stars.
There's plenty of them going way on back and still are today in films and TV.
Even radio presenters,
It's who and what they are.
Purple People Eater for the lost child in many of us.
Those of us who are young at heart and do know how to laugh and be happy and most of all have fun.
Not all of us are dull doom gloom and miserable always.
Purple People Eater a song that will go on. As it already has.
Classics don't die out as many believe.
Toad
Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky
It had the one long horn, and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said "Ooh-eee"
It looks like a purple people eater to me
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
(One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater)
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one eye?)
Well he came down to earth and he laid in the tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
"I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough"
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin' purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me (one horn?)
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?
And he said, "Eatin' purple people and it sure is fine"
But that's not the reason that I came to land
"I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
(We wear short shorts)
Friendly little people eater
What a sight to see
And then he swung from the tree and he laid on the ground
And he started to rock, really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin' tune
"Sing a bop-bop aboopa-lopa, loom bam-boom"
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
"I like short shorts"
Flyin' purple people eater
Quite a sight to see (purple people?)
Well he went on his way, and then what do ya know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, a-really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head
Marzilla Bryson
Love it haven't heard this in years. we're having a virtual Halloween party and this is just perfect.
Mia Larson
same
Dorothy Willis
Don't forget the Monster Mash!
Jaceblue04
I can't get over how adorable the Purple People Eater is. If it were a stuffed animal, I would buy it.
Len Ledwidge
@Suzette DuPont It was a tiny weeny yellow poket dot bikini, that she wore for the first time today. I'm 68 and that's all I remember. Snowed last night, Gooood , enough is enough.
Suzette DuPont
There was a purple people eater toy and I was terrified of it 😳
Len Ledwidge
THERE WAS ANOTHER TUNE , YELLOW, POKE A DOTED DRESS?????? 68 IS CATCHING UP WITH ME
Fleshker Adventures Plus
🟣 You’re lucky that you’re not a purple person, because otherwise he would eat you!
Fire Queen
I just randomly started singing this today while babysitting and the kids loved it. I’m 17 I can still sing word for word
onyay ekekay
me too 17