Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Clontarf83 Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:53 PM Suzanne--overheard on a bus in ireland And jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water and he spent a long time walking from his lonely wooden shower... My friend steve killed off Darcy Farrow as a song for me with this amendment: Young bandy in his gall put a bullet through his balls They buried them together as the snow began to fall |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 01 Sep 10 - 07:31 PM Reinhard, perhaps I wasn't clear. What I meant by "the unfortunate way to sing the song wrong" is the one where instead of "O cock of the morning/With a dream in his hand" you interchange the words "cock" and "dream." But maybe you did understand me, and that's your idea of "the folk tradition at work, evolving a song." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Genie Date: 01 Sep 10 - 04:26 PM Whenever I hear or sing "Riders In The Sky" and come to the line that goes, "He saw the riders comin' hard and he heard their mournful cry" I have to stifle the urge to yell "Ohhhhhhhh, Baby!!!!" instead of "Yippie-yi-aaay, yippie-yi-o." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: terrier Date: 01 Sep 10 - 02:14 PM ..and the Larks, they played melodeons at the dawning of etc. Brave Benbow lost his legs, biting sharks, biting sharks.. Islands industry, that's what we are.. all heard in folk clubs :) |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Bernard Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:57 PM By a lonely prison wall I heard a young girl calling 'Michael, they're singing that bloody song again!' |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Paul Burke Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:06 PM Unchained Melody... Oh, my love, my darling, I fumble for your crutch... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Rob Naylor Date: 01 Sep 10 - 08:03 AM In the late 70s, I learned Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" as: "I am being swallowed by a huge sparrow" I'd automatically sing those lyrics if I heard the tune, I think. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Genie Date: 01 Sep 10 - 03:28 AM Melodeon Boy, I've never actually done this, but when I sing the song "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" (even in my own mind) a childhood rhyme intrudes in my head and I can't help wanting to sing: "... so if your man is nice, take my advice: Pull down your underpants and slide on the ice. ..." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Dave Hanson Date: 01 Sep 10 - 02:49 AM Hamish Imlach said he knew a version called ' The Black Velvet Gland ' but he never sang it in public. Dave H |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Reinhard Date: 01 Sep 10 - 02:30 AM Unfortunate? Wrong? I'd think it's a fine example of the folk tradition at work evolving a song. Now wait a wee hundred years and even Dick Miles will call me a traditional singer when I sing whatever has come out of it by then... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:59 AM Reinhard, thanks for the link, I stand corrected on tune attribution. I note that the substitution of "North" for the original "morning" is attributed to MW-R in that thread, and the possible unfortunate way to sing the song wrong is also canvassed at length there. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:58 AM I went into a toilet I used to frequent And told the landlady my penny was bent I asked her to open the lavatory door She answered me "Nay", so I shat on the floor. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Ernest Date: 01 Sep 10 - 01:43 AM Heard years ago.... I went to a toilet I used to frequent and told the landlady my money was spent I asked her for credit, she said "not a bit, if you haven`t got a Deutschmark, you can?t have a shit" or sometimes she said "go to a bank if you haven`t got a Deutschmark, you can`t have a ...." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Reinhard Date: 01 Sep 10 - 12:38 AM Why is that wrong? Chris Kemster wasn't the only one. According to Lyr Add: Cock of the North there are four different tunes for this song, one of them by Martyn Wyndham-Read. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 31 Aug 10 - 07:18 PM There's a Dorothy Hewitt poem, The Sailor Home From The Sea, set to music by Chris Kempster, with the first two lines, O cock of the morning/With a dream in his hand, A friend of mine worried that she would start the song, O dream of the morning.... I note that the song is in the DT database, but with the first line, Oh Cock of the North, and with the tune attributed to Martyn Wyndham-Read. I think that's wrong. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 31 Aug 10 - 06:07 PM Song Sung Wrong? I've never heard him, and I think he went back to Korea. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Young Buchan Date: 31 Aug 10 - 06:04 PM Decca Mitford called a volume of autobiography A Fine Old Conflict because, she claimed, when her Nanny used to take her for walks through Hyde Park Corner she thought the Communists were singing 'It is a fine old conflict, let each stand in his place' rather than 'It is the final conflict...' Actually I've always been rather doubtful about that story because British communists normally sang the translation which goes 'Comrades come rally, and the last fight let us face, till the Internationale unites the human race', rather than the Final Conflict translation which is popular in America (where of course she lived in later life). |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Liz the Squeak Date: 31 Aug 10 - 05:36 PM I can't do 'Surrey with the fringe on top' without mixing 'Chicks and ducks and geese better hurry' into 'Dick and Chuck and Pete better worry, when I take you out for a curry'... And it was me wot corrupted 'Oh Boy' for Lady Penelope... after a year and more I can admit it! LTS |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: MartinRyan Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:20 PM Wild Rover: Some friends of mine used to sing the following, to check if the audience was still listening: She said "I have whiskey and wines of the best" Then she whipped off her tee-shirt and showed me her chest! Goodnight! |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 29 Jan 09 - 06:18 PM In Canada, "Black Velvet" is a cheaper Canadian whiskey, or a cocktail made with dark rum and beer. My christmas song mistake is 'chestnuts hanging by the open door.' Jack Frost nipping at your... Then I realize my mistake. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Donuel Date: 29 Jan 09 - 05:51 PM I've only heard 'song sung wrong' performed by Pinkard and Bowden. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,GUEST dulcimer player Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:52 PM Floating froggies on the river (Sweet Thames flow softly)- once by accident and now practically impossible not to sing! |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Genie Date: 28 Jan 09 - 07:45 PM Hey, Joe O, I love your Neil Diamond parody! And it's so true. I have been known to sing (Edelweiss) "Blossom of snow, may you groom and blow, groom and blow forever." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Fidjit Date: 28 Jan 09 - 06:41 PM Had a gig singing in a church. Yeah I can do that stuff. All went well, But when I was into Sid Kipper's Happy, Clappy, Chappy In The Church. I was asked to leave out the verse about, Mr Lister's sister in the shop. chas |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: oldhippie Date: 28 Jan 09 - 05:20 PM While singing the chorus of Tom Paxton's "Along The Verdigris" "Down along the Verdigris, the seasons come and go Life is right beside you here and you can feel it flow Down to meet the Arkansas then rolling to the sea All the way to New Orleans from here on the Verdigris" the third line became "Down to mediocricy rolling to the sea" |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Phil Edwards Date: 26 Jan 09 - 04:27 AM For me, I think, it's a variant form of the earworm - the tune sticks in my head, and words just kind of attach themselves to it as an alternative to rumty-tumty-tum. Another example is Gamble Gold as recorded by Steeleye Span (Womble Period), which I find extremely memorable - in fact, so memorable it's downright irritating. At least, it's extremely memorable apart from the words, which go something like Ye fiddlers three How well ye be With a pint or three When it's time for tea... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: terrier Date: 23 Jan 09 - 07:33 PM One of the first times I sang 'The Mira' I fluffed the line "They dance 'round the fire singing songs with their friends" and sang "They dance 'round the fire setting fire to their friends". I always have a mini panic when I get to that line now. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Tootler Date: 23 Jan 09 - 11:33 AM Not just words, but sometimes tune as well. At a singaround the other night I announced I was going to sing "The Lea Rig". I started and I knew almost immediately there was something wrong with the tune. I couldn't figure out what and what I was singing fitted so I kept going and completed the song. At the end the M/C commented that the tune was very like "The Parting Glass". It was then I realised I had sung the words of the Lea Rig to the tune of the Parting Glass. The words and tune fitted, but I was annoyed with myself. There's more. The next one whose turn it was stood up and said they had been going to sing The Parting Glass! |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Flash Company Date: 23 Jan 09 - 10:43 AM Ian Shaw, Jazz pianist and comedian started to sing Mel Torme's Christmas Song, then stopped, laughed and said 'Sorry, but I always want to sing that as 'Geoff's nuts roasting on an open fire' FC |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: melodeonboy Date: 23 Jan 09 - 09:49 AM Yes, a similar thing happened to me many years ago with "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez. "Hey baby, won't you take a chance, Put your hand down my underpants, and let's dance....." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: lady penelope Date: 23 Jan 09 - 09:34 AM A friend of mine permanently ruined 'Oh Boy' for me, now I couldn't tell you what the correct lyrics are, all I can sing is - "All of my life I've been missing Your left tit cos your right one's missing, oh boy..." Recently I've been learning "My Johnny was a shoemaker", and in the last couple of weeks he's ended up with various careers, but has ended up thus "My Johnny was a punk rocker, And dearly he loved me, My Johnny was a punk rocker, And pogo'ed out to sea...." An imagination is a dangerous thing to leave to it's own devices... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Rich Date: 23 Jan 09 - 08:03 AM "Down the lane I walk with my sweet mary, teeth all bent, and lips so hairy, Its good to touch the green, green grass of home." |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Joe_F Date: 22 Jan 09 - 09:27 PM I think I have recorded this elsewhere in this company, but: For many years, in listening to Ewan MacColl sing "Wark of the Weavers", I heard "There's folk that's independent o' ither tradesmen's wark" as "There's folk that's independent -- a' ither trades must wark". Pawky humor, I thought: Being financially independent is like any other trade, except for one detail. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,HughM Date: 22 Jan 09 - 08:22 AM There she blows, my Ringsend rose..... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: katlaughing Date: 21 Jan 09 - 11:05 PM Joe, that's exactly the song that came into my mind when I saw the thread title! Thanks for the link. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 21 Jan 09 - 10:29 PM Finally, after all these years, I learn what Neil Diamond is singing in 'Song sung blue.' I thought it was something in French until Joe posted that link. Thanks, Joe. Now can somebody explain who Andy was in 'Goin' to the chapel, Andy, goin'ta get mar-ar-ar-ied' ? |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Phil Edwards Date: 21 Jan 09 - 06:36 PM Forgot one. "Now Jonathan died and he left his head On an ironing-board, they say..." I may need professional help. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Weasel Date: 07 Jan 09 - 04:57 PM And, of course, the one we all know - "Come all ye tons of soil". |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Acorn4 Date: 07 Jan 09 - 01:14 PM And her breasts hung down from her shoulders Held up by a great navvy's hand. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Snuffy Date: 07 Jan 09 - 01:06 PM BVB - And her hairy toungue over her shoulder ... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Rog Peek Date: 07 Jan 09 - 12:06 PM I have a recording of Elvis Presley singing 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' where he sings............... ......when I kissed you and called you sweetheart Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare? Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair? Is your heart filled with pain........... ...followed by much laughter! Rog |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Leadfingers Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:43 AM Every time I hear Sovay I keep having the urge to sing " With a sawn oif shotgun all by her side" And B V B - Her Boobies hung over her shoulder , held up by a big navvie's hand . |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Musket Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:38 AM Her eyes they shone like footballs I thought her the queen of the kop I said "Do you like Sheffield United?" "No" she said "not a lot." As sung on the kop at Hillsborough over the years. Song sung wrong? How many people do hear singing Pomona as Lomona? |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: GUEST,Howard Jones Date: 07 Jan 09 - 07:08 AM "And her knickers hung over her ankles She'd broken her elastic band" I used to know a singer who would insist on singing, apparently in all seriousness, "I'll give you seven years penile servitude" - the mind boggles! |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Will Fly Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:49 AM Black Velvet is an excellent drink. I have it on my birthday every year - and that's the Guinness & champagne version! |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: matt milton Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:39 AM I've started to sing Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child recently, accompanying myself on the mandolin. It's one of the songs in Dix Bruce's excellent First Lessons: Mandolin book (Mel Bay publishers). Twice now, I've mis-sung the line in the second verse 'Sometimes I feel like a feather in the air' as 'Sometimes I feel like a ferret in the air'. I don't know whether that's a Freudian slip or not, or what that says about me... |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Nigel Parsons Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:30 AM Will: Black Velvet Band: (mark II) They drink their Guinness & Cider And then the performers all stand With a fiddle, guitar & a bodhrun They call them the '*Black Velvet' Band *Black velvet: a drink of stout & champagne, or, more commonly, Guinness & Cider |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Weasel Date: 07 Jan 09 - 06:18 AM I'm afraid I can't sing Black Velvet Band without thinking "Her head was on top of her shoulders Tied on with an elastic band" Sorry. |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Jan 09 - 05:50 AM Shouldn't this be transferred to the RUS thread? ...........ducking and running.............. Spaw |
Subject: RE: Song Sung Wrong From: Will Fly Date: 07 Jan 09 - 05:41 AM Joe - just caught your post... Why in heaven's name can't I, just for once, resist a blue clicky thing? |
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