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Thread #6064   Message #3282111
Posted By: GUEST,HowardS
30-Dec-11 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Origin: I Want to Go to Morrow (Lew Sully, 1898)
Subject: RE: Origin: I Want to Go to Morrow (Lew Sully, 1898)
On 02 Apr 11 Date: 02 Apr 11 - 09:52 PM GUEST,dwbspan wrote:
>
> A lot of internet sites presenting the words to "To Morrow" include
> the phrase "not expecting to be guyed". This doesn't make any sense
> at all.   A sensible phrase, and one which perfectly fits the
> context of the song, would be "not expecting to be guiled".

Sorry, but "guyed" is correct. See original published sheet music at .

The word that's giving you trouble, "guyed", meaning "ridiculed" seems to have passed out of popular usage, but see For a particularly apt usage, there was a book called "Opera Guyed", by Newman Levy, published in 1923 , consisting of famous operas done as humorous poems or song lyrics.