The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57813   Message #913160
Posted By: Deni-C
19-Mar-03 - 12:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
This one sounds hysterical.

:-)

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I dd hear a band once do the Grand Old duke of York, it was very clever.

went something like this. They sang the first verse and then the next time they left out the last word of each line, and the next time left out two words, the next tree and so on, leaving the beats where the words used to be....I think,like this

Oh the grand old Duke of York,
he had ten thousand men,
he marched them up to the top of the hill
and he marched them down again


and when they were up
they were up
and when they were down
they were down
and when they were only halfway up
they were neither up nor down


Sing verse again, then....


and when they were *
they were *
and when they were *
they were *
and when they were only halfway *
they were neither * nor *

etc

long before thy got to the bit where there were only a couple of words in each line the audience fell about and the best thing was they were all, as well as grinning at the band they were laughing with the people next to them.....

:-)