Origins: That's a Moray (eel)...after That's Amore

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 01:35 PM

Maybe this thread explains why Naemanson was reciting some of these verses last night, in response to our sardonic comments to his plans of shifting to Sicily.

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: SharonA
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 09:31 AM

"Do re me" is a song.
Hold the second note long:
That's some more "re".

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Genie
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:38 PM

or

Hear that stirring refrain
On the bagpipes they're playin'--
That's "The Morain."

Genie

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Genie
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:36 PM

Well, Mark and Homeless, I was gonna add:

When you watch Dick Van Dyke
There's a funny little guy,
Atsa Morey!

Genie

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:14 PM

Mark, that is an A-1, first class parody! I literally went "ALOL" reading that.

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: ddw
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 10:05 PM

Clever song, Mark, but that last verse is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Homeless
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:44 PM

Spider Robinson had a bunch of these in one of his Callahan books. There were puns on moire, Morrey (?) Amsterdam among others. In the particular story, it was a claurican that was singing the song.

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:25 PM

Stick your hand in that crack and you wont pull it back, that's a Moray..

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 05:09 PM

Now that is clever, Mark.

Uhh, Murray

Subject: RE: That's a Moor, eh?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM

I just received this one today as email and thought it ought to be added to this thread.

      - Mark

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie
That's amore.

When an eel bites your hand
And that's not what you planned
That's a moray.

When our habits are strange
And our customs deranged
That's our mores.

When your horse munches straw
And the bales total four
That's some more hay.

When Othello's poor wife
She gets stabbed with a knife
That's a Moor, eh?

When a Japanese knight
Used a sword in a fight
That's Samurai

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Aug 99 - 06:12 PM

I've long thought that many parodies would be better off with just one verse, or even just a portion of a verse. This is a fine example: the joke occurs on the second line, and any extension is mere repetition. It's a good joke, though.

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From:
Date: 02 Aug 99 - 01:23 PM

I know how it ends...

'scusa me but you see when one look makes you flee that's a Moray.

Gee, I feel like Winston Smith

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Rincon Roy
Date: 02 Aug 99 - 09:46 AM

too funny...

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 02 Aug 99 - 12:10 AM

Actually, I thought that I was the first one to sing this parody!

When you reach in the sand
And something grabs your hand
that's a moray
When you swim on the reef
There's this thing with big teeth
That's a moray

Great minds think in patterns.

Subject: RE: That's a Moray (eel)... after That's Amore
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Aug 99 - 10:56 PM

Mark, I can't help with the song, but I've heard it too. Some time back in one of the folk newsgroups, there was a thread with all sorts of parodies to that song. A more (there's a little accent that goes over the 'e' that I can't figure out) A Murray, etc. Wish I'd saved it...

Subject: That's a Moray (eel)... same tune as That's Amore
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 01 Aug 99 - 08:18 PM

Anybody know this one? It's to the tune of That's Amore, but instead of When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore, it goes sort of like:

When a fish bites your heel and the pain makes you reel
...that's a Moray!

Mark