Lyr Add: The Alphabet Song variations

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 10:48 AM

Michael, you seem to have got them all with the exception of E=(h)eave a brick.

The Queen queueing for a Big Mac would be Infra dig (latin 'below one's dignity')

O For The Wings Of A Dove was a famous aria recorded in the 1920s by a boy soprano which sold a million.

I always knew it as T for 2, U for me

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: GUEST,Michael Cooney
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:44 AM

Subject: RE: A is for 'orses
From: MudGuard
Date: 18-Feb-99 - 04:50 AM

Could someone please spell out the rest?
My guesses:
(being German, the A, E, F, G, I, L, N, O, R, U and Z are too hard for me to catch, and I'm not sure about my solution to G, J and M)

A for 'orses = ??? (Hay for horses?)
B for Mutton = Beef or Mutton
C for yourself = See for yourself
D for dumb = Deaf or dumb
E for Brick = ??? (Half a brick?)
F for vescence = ??? (Effervescence?)
G for police = Chief of Police???
H for retirement = age for retirement
I for tower = ??? (Eiffel Tower?)
J for oranges = Jaffa Oranges???
K for teria = Cafeteria
L for leather = ??? (Hell for leather = fast)
M for sis = emphasis???
N for dig = ??? (Infra-dig = very hip?)
O for the garden wall = ??? (Over the garden wall)
O for the wings of a dove = ??? (so I could fly away...)
P for comfort = Pee for comfort
P for ages = Pee for ages
Q for a bus/pee = Queue for a bus/pee
R for mo' = ??? ('Arf [half] a mo[ment])
S for you = is for you
T for two = tea for two
U for mism = ??? (Euphemism)
V for la France = vive la France
W for tune = double your fortune
X for breakfast = eggs for breakfast
Y for husband = wife or husband
Z for breezes = ??? (Zephyr breezes?)

Andreas

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: misfit
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 04:34 AM

The last line goes...I L-O-V-E-Y-O-U, spells I R N Love with you. Well at least that is how I remember Perry singing it to us.

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 10:55 PM

Alas, the book with "A you're an Artichoke" (ala Oscar the Grouch) is not on shelf in my library at the moment. When it turns up, I will add the lyrics. My nephew thinks it is the most hilarious of all alphabet songs. (He also thinks an elemeno is a short squashy elephant. This is my brother's fault.)

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Dec 00 - 08:49 AM

There is (was?) a shop in Leamington Spa called "Desdemona Postlethwaite!"

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 11:00 PM

Oscar the Grouch sings a parody of "A you're Adorable"... I'll see if the book with the words in it is in the branch where I work tomorrow.

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 02:57 PM

Ta muchly, Bert

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Bert
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 12:00 PM

'ere tiz Snuffy

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 11:49 AM

To fill in (I have this by John Lithgow):

L - is the Lovelight in your eyes...M, N, O, P, I could go on all day
Q, R, S, T alphabetically speaking, you're OK and
U you look good to me, V you're so very sweet, W X Y Z... - It's fun to wander thru' the alphabet with you to tell you what you mean to me.

I'm trying to remember if we even SANG an alphabet song when I was a wittle kiddie in French school - do they have one?

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Jacob B
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 11:13 AM

The version I sang as a kid ended with, "Now I know my ABC. Tell me what you think of me." I don't recall anyone answering back to me when I sang the song, but I think that I used to sing "I think you stink" (to the tune of "Good Evening, Friends") to my younger sister when she sang the song the same way.

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 08:32 PM

There is a mariners song version A= anchor B=Bow etc .. and there is the "Sod's Opera" Version popular on Navy Ships; but I cant sing it here (or aywhere else for that matterlol) Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: Lyr Add: 'A' YOU'RE ADORABLE (THE ALPHABET SONG)
From: John Hindsill
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 07:44 PM

My fav alphabet song was sung by Perry Como (and others) many a year ago...as many as 50+ ago.

A - you're Adorable
B - you're so Beautiful
C - you're a Cutey, full of charms
D - you're Delightful
E - you're Exciting
F - you're a Feather in my arms.
G - you look Good to me
H - you're so Heavenly
I - you're the one I Idolize
J - we're like Jack & Jill
K - your lips are Kissable
L - is the Lovelight in your eyes.
and etc until -
It's fun to wander thru' the alphabet with you to tell you what you mean to me,

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Snuffy
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 07:17 PM

Not a song, but does anybody know the complete Cockney alphabet:

A for Horses
B for mutton
C for ships
...etc

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 07:15 PM

When I was a kid, we just sang the first part of the alphabet over again to fill out the tune, but by the time I was teaching it to small people we were singing "Now I know my ABC, next time won't you sing with me." Which is pretty much the Sesame Street authorized version, I think.

Well, I suppose that we weren't very fair to the letters after "P" in the way I learned it first.

;D

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: okthen
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 06:18 PM

I tried to find "the housewives alphabet" in the DT but I am notoriously bad at finding things.

It started A is for altar where it first went astray

B is for bills that arrived the next day.

don't have the full text.......anyone else want to put it in the DT?

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: The Alphabet Song
From: Jacob B
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 05:17 PM

I learned a new version of the alphabet song the other year. The melody was the same "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" melody as the usual version, but the lyrics were different. It went:

ZYXWVUT
SRQPONMLK
JIH, GFE,
D and C and B and A.
Now I know my ZYX's. That's the way we say the alphabet in Texas.

Subject: The Alphabet Song
From: Haruo
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 04:43 AM

Perhaps the "Alphabet Song", the one whose lyrics consist, in the main, of the letters of the alphabet in alphabetic order, is perhaps a bit too puerile or infantile or something for the Digitrad, but it's certainly an important part of preliterate musical culture. I've got the version I sang as a very wee tot here in La Lilandejo. I'm interested in knowing other people's and peoples' variants. The tune of the version I (and most other kids hereabouts) learned is essentially the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and only a bit different from "Baa, baa, black sheep". (Didn't see "Twinkle, twinkle" nor any immediately obvious parodies thereof in the Digitrad, either, which does surprise me a bit.

Liland