Purple Guava — Joey Marianer at open mic on JoCo Cruise 2019
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2019-04-09

We sea monkeys have lots and lots of inside jokes, and this is one of them. It’s the #purpleguava meme that was invented during New Monkey Orientation on the first day, at about 42 minutes into https://youtu.be/V8K44-IVfcY

You can find Joey Marianer's other ukuletricious songs at https://www.youtube.com/user/roiem

The tune is, of course, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’. The lyrics (written by Joey with some help from me) are:

I heard there were some inside jokes
That were well known by other folks
But we don't get them so we need another
So Paul Sabourin chose a nerd and had them say a random word
And thus was born the legend of the guava
Purple guava, purple guava...

On JoCoCruise we love to shout
But sometimes new folks feel left out
Like Gavin when he fell into the lava
And so on orientation day, we chose a word and found a way
To make an inside joke about a guava
Purple guava, purple guava...

Another puzzled monkey there
Asked "What's with all the purple hair?"
A mystery we still have to uncover
They just like purple, it would seem, so let's just add it to the meme
We'll talk all week about the purple guava
Purple guava, purple guava...

It’s all true, except that Gavin didn’t technically fall into lava. http://gavinverhey.tumblr.com/post/111287496771/the-time-i-fell-down-a-volcano

The performances I’m allowed to share from this open mic will be in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0gfnGY7R2rXV__qRmtHmToH (If you performed and want your performance public but don't see your performance in that list, let me know!)