For over 30 years, Bernie and Denise’s friend Doug Frazier composed a song annually for Mayoff Day. We are all grateful. The tradition continued until the Fraziers left Texas, and even beyond. This song book is a compilation of those songs.
All recordings are of the actual people in attendance.
Come Down for Mayoff Day
Click to sing along with a video from the celebration
To the tune of Sloop John B
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
June first down at old Gaines Ranch
Come join if you have the chance
On Mayoff Day the merry fiesta will be
The company’s great
So plan on the date
Well, it’s time to party, come party with me!
Mayoff Day 2023
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To the tune of Jimmy Durante singing “One of Those Songs”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
This is one of those tunes that you sing once a year.
You pull out the music when Mayoff Day’s near
And waxing nostalgic, you may shed a tear,
Then sit at the piano, and sip at your beer.
Mayoff Day, 2022
To the tune of, “This old Man”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Mayoff Day, time for fun,
Two Bellinis, not just one.
Brookdale party, now, time to sing a song,
Join the fun and sing along!
Sung to the tune of the chorus of “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend!”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
(For health reasons, friends celebrated on their own and there is no recording of the family celebration. The audio is a reminder of the melody.)
When you’re blue, what to do, why you head off to Austin,
‘Cause Mayoffs are the world’s best friends!
And you know, when you go, that you soon will be lost an’
The celebration never ends!
Sung to the tune of Alan Sherman‘s “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”
Music from Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Mayoff Day in twenty-twenty,
Oh what problems – we’ve got plenty!
COVID-19, that’s a trial,
For we’ve got to isolate and mask a while!
Sung to the tune “Baby Elephant Walk”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Bernie and Denise went down to Cape Town.
Down to Africa to see the sights.
All day… They Flew…
When at last they finally arrived there
They toured the city, and then they headed out, excited, to the veldt.
Sung to the tune “Sunrise, Sunset”
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Again it is time for celebration,
Time, now, to join our friends at play?
Each year we’ve met this special evening,
Mayoff Day.
Sung to the tune of Red River Valley
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Time to gather again at the Mayoffs,
As each year, we all do, meeting here.
For it’s now Mayoff Day, time to gather,
And to raise cups for all gathered near.
Sung to the tune of Humoresque
Lyrics by Doug Frazier
Each Year, on Mayoff Day, we meet
To greet, and eat Denise’s treats
And catch up on each others tales and lives!