The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53527   Message #3511047
Posted By: GUEST
02-May-13 - 12:18 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Subject: RE: DTStudy: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
We sang this as a sort of official anthem for a college organization I belonged to in 1996-2000. The Yuai Community was originally formed as an alternative to Greek groups on campus, theoretically in opposition, and was known for random events of philanthropy and regular events of debauchery, individuals with a taste for "substances", weirdos & freaks & leaders all, who held a weekly themed cocktail party, often in costume. It was lovely. And shouting this at 3 AM on a Wednesday was part of the fun. So great to see where it came from, only slightly altered:

Around her leg she wore a purple garter
   (since purple is the Yuai color)
She placed in in the springtime, and in the month of May HEY HEY! (delivered as a great shout)
And if you asked her why the hell she wore it
She wore it for her Yuai who was far, far away.

(Chorus, etc.)
...

Around her waist there grew a gentle swelling

Around the block she pushed a baby carriage

Above the door her father kept a shotgun

(the following delivered on-tune, but slow, mournful, with exaggerated wailing)
Upon a grave she placed a purple flower
She placed in in the springtime, and in the month of May
And if you asked her why the hell she placed it (then, with sudden speed, anger and great volume:)
She placed it for her Yuai who was six f***ing feet away!

Six away! (six away!)... etc.

I was looking it up today because yesterday, May Day, was sort of a "high holiday" for our group, full of some goofy rituals, so I was reminiscing.