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Lyr Req: Can Can
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Subject: Words to the Can Can? From: Butch Date: 04 Jun 01 - 09:56 PM Has anyone ever heard words set to the tune we all call the Can Can? If so where can I find them. A caution here, this is needed for a young audience so I need clean words! Thanks for the help in advance |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Marion Date: 04 Jun 01 - 11:55 PM When I was a kid we sang it as:
Girls, do you think that you can |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Jun 01 - 11:55 PM Can Can, can you do the Can Can, can you do the Can Can, can you do the...can you do the...can you do the...(repeat endlessly) - LH |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:08 AM I'm 4,000 miles from my Cole Porter lyrics book, so I can't come up with an answer now. I do know that the final song in Porter's musical "Can-Can" was named "Can-Can," - but I don't know if it's the tune we're familiar with. The familiar tune is in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld -is the tune an Offenbach original, or does it come from an earlier source? -joe offer- |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Metchosin Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:19 AM I remember the following 2 lines but I have no idea if they are part of the real lyrics
They do it in the follies |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Billy the Bus Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:28 AM Chorus:
I can can, and you can can To the best of my recollection...;) Cheers - Sam |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Jun 01 - 04:26 AM I think Bob Ashworth used the tune as part of his 'Drinkers Opera' by 'Booze-et' but I can't remember the words. Not much help realy.... Ah well. Dave the forgetful... er .. thingy |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Gervase Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:39 AM We always used to sing: "Da dah da-da-da-da Dah dah, da-da-da-da Dah dah..." Sorry, I'll get me coat... |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Jun 01 - 07:56 AM heh heh, get mine too Gervase, we sang that too! I remember watching a Saturday morning childrens' cartoon - I think it was Animaniacs - and they sang a song to the Can Can tune listing a whole range of food additives and preservatives. "dah dah dah dah...monosodium glutamate", etc. It was brilliant. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU EAT (from Animaniacs) From: Fibula Mattock Date: 05 Jun 01 - 08:09 AM Found it! (Taken from here. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU EAT (Episode 23) Music by Jacques Offenbach (Orpheus Overture). Lyrics by Randy Rogel. Wakko: (spoken) Hey! Let's get some ice cream! Dot : How 'bout this one? Pistachio Almond Fruit Fudge Butterscotch Delight. Yakko: Ingredients: Zinc trisodium, aspartate, Sorbitol and bisulfate, Oxide beta carotene, Lactic acid, carob bean. (music begins) Yakko: Grade A milk emulsified Malto-dextrin alkalide Silicon deoxylite Lots of sugar, W+D : Hey, all right! Yakko: Calcified synthetic salt Artificial barley malt Glycerine and aspartate Folic acid, Wakko: That tastes great! YW+D : Monosodium glutamate Dehydrated calceinate Soybean oil, butter fat Caramel center, Wakko: I'll eat that! YW+D : Hooray for sugar, 'cause we love it Chocolate chips; we want more of it Cakes and ice cream; watch us shove it Down our throats real fast. Yakko: Here's a candy bar, you tried it? Wakko: Hey, let's all see what's inside it. Yakko: Gelatinized triglycerin Phosphate, soybean, lecithin Deoxylite tri-silicon Dipped in chocolate, W+D : Bring it on! Yakko: Citrus enzymes, BHT Powdered milk, Dot : Sounds good to me! Yakko: Baking soda, carob gum Carbohydrates, W+D : Yummy yum! YW+D : Monosodium glutamate Zinc disodium algenate, Whole grain flour, yeast and fat Wakko: Time to eat it; I'll do that *YW+D: We like sweets a lot * So give us all you got * And we'll stuff 'em in our bodies * 'Til they make our insides rot. * - On the Animaniacs album, this verse is sung as follows: YW+D : We like sweets a lot But they make your insides rot So remember it's your body And the only one you've got. |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Jacob B Date: 05 Jun 01 - 10:12 AM Tom Chapin has recorded a set of children-friendly lyrics to it, under the title "Picnic of the World."
The New Christy Minstrels recorded a set of lyrics to it, which poked fun at various dances of the 1960s. Here's what I remember of it: |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Hollowfox Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:43 AM You may want to write some of your own. I saw an English language of Orpheus in Hades once, and the lyrics dealt with teasing Jove about being such a "lascivious papa". Thart phrase is all I remember, but it was used at the end of the "A" part of the tune to round out each verse. As I recall, it didn't seem to be an easy song to sing; lots of syllables jammed into lots of short notes, at a breakneck pace. |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:57 AM It's Offenbach's tune, all right. He liked it so well that he used it twice, once in Orpheus in Hades and again in Gaiete Parisienne, or vice versa. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PICNIC OF THE WORLD (John Forster) From: Jacob B Date: 05 Jun 01 - 12:56 PM PICNIC OF THE WORLD Words: John Forster Music: Allouette, and Can-Can, by Jacques Offenbach Album: Mother Earth, by Tom Chapin All the nations sitting on a blanket Having a picnic--the picnic of the world! There's Holland and there's Poland and there's Iceland and there's Thailand There's England and There's Scotland and America (that's my land) There's Canada and Panama, there's Sweden and Aruba Korea, Tanzania, not to mention Greece and Cuba Mali, Bali, Mexico and Martinique Hungary, Turkey, India and Mozambique Haiti, Fiji, Israel and Senegal Kenya, Ghana, Jordan and Nepal. All sitting on the same big blanket With the same big basket Full of sandwiches and deviled eggs We're all drinking from the same big Thermos at the same big picnic it's the picnic of the world. There's Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaya, and Nigeria There's Luxembourg and Liechtenstein--let's not forget Liberia There's Paraguay and Uruguay, there's Russia and there's Syria Sudan, Japan, Iraq, Iran and what about Algeria? Finland, Greenland, Switzerland and Vietnam Denmark, Norway, Swaziland and Surinam Chili, China, Guatemala, Trinidad Tonga, Togo, Portugal and Chad All sitting on the same big blanket With the same warm soda As the ants crawl on our sandwiches We're all swatting at the same mosquitoes Eating burned up burgers at the picnic of the world. There's Gambia and Zambia and Laos and Guyana There's Libya, Namibia, Andorra and Botswana Then there's Singapore, and Ecuador, El Salvador and Lebanon Albania, Rumania, there's Burma, and Bhutan All sitting on the same big blanket With the same big basket full of problems and annoyances But all knowing at the deep down heart of it We're all a part of it The picnic of the picnic of the picnic of the world!
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: harpmolly Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:31 PM Wow! I didn't realize the can-can was from "Orpheus in Hades"! That gives a whole new meaning to "Moulin Rouge", which I saw last night. :D Please excuse me for a moment... *droolingmadlyoverEwanMacgregormytrueloveandsoulmate*... Ahhhh. Much better. :) Anyway, MR is all about the can-can :) and it also happens to be a strangely modern version of the Orpheus myth. So that's really interesting to me. The film was really much better than I expected, from the reviews I read. I think you just have to accept it for what it is--a two-hour long, very surreal, gorgeous music video--to truly enjoy it. I certainly did. But then, Ewan might have had something to do with that. Mmmmm. Sigh. The pain of unrequited love *grin* M |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:59 PM Didn't return your calls either eh! |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: JeZeBeL Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:03 PM Technically there aren't any original words to the can can as it came from the suite Orpheus int der underwurlt. I think that's how it's spelt anyway. We used to play it in orchestra and us trumpets at the back used to get up and dance it while playing it....but that's another twisted story........... Emma xxx |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: GUEST Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:18 PM Metchosin;we used to sing those two lines, and'dressed only in their flounces, everybody bounces when they do the polka to the cancan' |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Jun 01 - 05:08 PM JeZeBel, your post sounds as if you're making Offenbach a German. He was French, French, French, despite the name! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Metchosin Date: 05 Jun 01 - 05:22 PM Guest, those are definitely more of the words to what I first remembered singing as a kid....really jogging the old memory banks here. I'll put in a request to me auld mother and see if she can fill in the blanks. |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Micca Date: 06 Jun 01 - 01:00 PM From a some what Faulty memory and possibly not in the correct order either but to the best of what I can remember
They do it in the Follies |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Lanfranc Date: 06 Jun 01 - 06:25 PM OK, it's not really suitable for the young and innocent, but this ageing roue always got a smile from the version by Derek Craft of "1812" (anyone else remember 1812?)
"I know a girl called Lisa Should appeal to Micca, if no-one else! |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Micca Date: 07 Jun 01 - 07:07 AM You are an Evil old Scrote Alan, but yes you are Right,it does appeal to me!!!! |
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Subject: Lyr Req: CAN CAN by Offenbach From: semi-submersible Date: 11 Jun 04 - 05:12 PM I'll post the words to Mom's parody, "Camp Camp Polka," if someone can help me find the music (sheet or ABC). I need to see the score to divide the lines right, and indicate which lyrics fit A, B, and C parts. You can download a prizewinning video of trash cans dancing to the can can here. |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: s&r Date: 12 Jun 04 - 02:52 AM Fol der rollies is what I remember not frothy Stu |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 12 Jun 04 - 04:45 AM I remember 1812, Geof was very good . He used to do a gig as well as 1812 with John Dunkerly from the from the Ian Campbell group who sadly passed away. but John was a terrific musician - check out his banjo accompaniment to the unquiet grave with ian if you can find a copy |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: InOBU Date: 12 Jun 04 - 12:23 PM Now Shoprite does the can can selling lots of brands of everything in cans ........... from applesause to zucinne you'll find much more (something or other...) Cheers Larry |
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Subject: RE: Words to the Can Can? From: semi-submersible Date: 13 Jun 04 - 02:20 PM Again, can anyone help me find the music? Or at least help me tell which parts are A, B, & C? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: FRENCH CAN-CAN POLKA (Offenbach/Kennedy) From: Jim Dixon Date: 15 May 10 - 08:39 PM Copied from International Lyrics Playground: FRENCH CAN-CAN POLKA (Composer: Jacques Offenbach / Adaptation & Lyrics: Jimmy Kennedy) Billy Cotton & His Band (vocal: Allan Breeze & The Bandits) - 1950 Three Suns (with The Honeydreamers) - 1950 Ethel Smith - 1950 Tony Pastor & His Orch. - 1950 The Radio Revellers - 1950 The Stargazers & Billy Thorburn - 1950 I can-can and you can-can So why should not we two can-can Who can-can like you can-can Who can do can-can like you can To the tune they can-can to We'll polka while we parley-vous Few can-can like you can-can In the Can-Can Polka One hop, two hop Knee up high and wave your toes One shake, two shake That's the way this polka goes One kick, two kick Simple when you know the trick Turn round, bend down In the Can-Can polka They do it in the follies All the Frenchy Dollies Looking frilly in their frilly foll-dee-rollies Dressed only in their flounces Everybody bounces When they do the polka to the can-can I can-can and you can-can So why should not we two can-can Who can-can like you can-can Who can do can-can like you can To the tune they can-can to We'll polka while we parley-vous Few can-can like you can-can In the Can-Can Polka (Orchestral Interlude) They do it in the follies All the Frenchy Dollies Looking frilly in their frilly foll-dee-rollies Dressed only in their flounces Everybody bounces When they do the polka to the can-can I can-can and you can-can So why should not we two can-can Who can-can like you can-can Who can do can-can like you can To the tune they can-can to We'll polka while we parley-vous Few can-can like you can-can In the Can-Can polka Doing the Can-Can Polka |
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