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Thread #44250   Message #1537794
Posted By: Tannywheeler
08-Aug-05 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: Dept. of Misheard Lyrics
Subject: RE: Dept. of Misheard Lyrics
As a widdle kid this happened to me: The Clancy Bros (at first just Paddy and Tom) were friends and sang a song about a guy named Kelly, who was a bold light-fixture. (We had a chandelier in the area of the living room where my mother had placed the formal dining table. I knew what that was.) I heard "...oh, me bold chandelier, wi' yer long-barreled guns of the sea...", so that's what I sang. It was a while before anyone explained about the place in Ireland, Chelmalye(sp?), and a Chelmalier being (in this case a rebel) from there.    Tw