| "On Top of Spaghetti" copyright 1961 |
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| Music by | traditional, On Top of Old Smoky |
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| Lyrics by | Tom Glazer |
| Language | English |
| Original artist | Tom Glazer |
| Recorded by | Tom Glazer, Paul Strausman, Bob McGrath, Little Richard |
"On Top of Spaghetti" is a ballad and children's song written and originally performed by folk singer Tom Glazer with the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus in 1963. The song is sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey". It is essentially the tale of a meatball that was lost when "somebody sneezed". The song discusses what happened to the meatball after it fell off of a pile of spaghetti and rolled away.