(c) 2007 Doug Newman

I Loved Ginger

I loved Ginger .... hmmmm

I loved Ginger .... hmmmm

But sometimes I loved Mary Anne

I wanted her to be my girlfriend

repeat

And when the skipper he loved Mary Anne too

Well I just wanted to choke him

And when the professor loved Ginger too

I wished one of his experiments would go array

And he would blow himself up

I loved Ginger .... hmmmm

I loved Ginger .... hmmmm

But sometimes I loved Mary Anne

I wanted her to be my girlfriend

I loved Ginger

I loved Ginger

I loved Ginger

by Doug Newman

(c) 2000 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP

from "Red Beans and Rice and Other Songs of the Dusty

Trail"

* Paean - "A song or hymn of praise, joy, or triumph, originally

sung by Greeks in gratitude to Apollo. "

This is a paean* to all Gilligan's Island fans, particularly those who like myself

struggled with one of the preeminently important question of our youths, which of

course was the question of "Mary Anne or Ginger". Well I should say that the song

is sung a bit in the third person, i.e. I wouldn't be foolish enough to divulge which

I preferred over the other, which from my experience in dealing with this essentially

existential question was and remains to this day the best course to take. OK well I

guess I'm feeling a little guilty and will finally admit that it was Mary Anne. There

I feel so much better