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Thread #77963   Message #1401152
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
06-Feb-05 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: Not-So-Good Lines in Songs
Subject: RE: Not-So-Good Lines in Songs
Guest wrote,

    I once saw on Country music tv a guy who was quite good and i was enjoying the song
    till he took it too far and sang;

    "I've a burning, yearning, churning, deep inside o'me"

Sounds like someone was channelling Tom Lehrer spoofing Cole Porter.
This is from Lehrer's version of Clementine:

    ...imagine what might have happened if, for example, Cole Porter had tried writing this
    song. The first verse might have come out like this:

    In a cavern, in a canyon,
    Excava-ha-ha-hating for a mine,
    Far away from the boom-boom-boom of the city
    She was so pretty -- what a pity, Clementine.

    Oh Clementine, can't you tell from the howls of me
    This love of mine calls to you from the bowels of me.
    Are you discerning the returning
    Of this churning, burning, yearning for you...oo oo...ah ah...