Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen

Subject: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 02:30 PM

I'm in a hurry, so here's my parody of an old hunting song that was asked about with the words "with a ran tan tan and a jimmy jimmy jan.

It's time for me to get on the singaround.

1) We are the mer-ry hunts-men who love to chase the fox.
We love to chase bold Rey-nard a-mong the hills and rocks.

CHORUS: With a ran tan tan and a jim-my jim-my jan
all o'er the mer-ry downs we ran.
With a ran tan tan and a chev-y, chev-y chase,
through fal-low field and sog-gy place,
with me oo-gle oo-gle oo-gle on the bu-gle horn
it's through the woods we go.
2) We thought we saw bold Rey-nard a-res-ting on a wall.
'Twas just a gin-ger tom-cat, with fluff-y tail and all. CHORUS

) We thought we saw bold Rey-nard as si-lent as he will.
'Twas Mis-tress Ma-ther's pump-kin pie a-cooling on the sill. CHORUS

4) And next we saw bold Rey-nard a-speed-ing through the scene.
'Twas just a Mor-ris Mi-nor re-paint-ed tan-ger-ine. CHORUS

5) "I spy a flash of o-range!" cried Mas-ter John Mc-Call.
Twas Stel-la d'Or-o li-lies out-side the cit-y hall. CHORUS

6) Be-hold a glimpse of orange/and black be-side the pas-ture gate:
a Yan-kee foot-ball hel-met from Ok-la-ho-ma State. CHORUS

7)The sun is low, our mounts have tired, the day grows chill/and drear.
Let us pur-sue a diff'rent glow: a fire-place and a beer. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: leeneia
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 06:11 PM

I sang this at the Singaround, and for some reason the Morris Minor painted tangerine got comments. What's wrong with that?

I thought people would ask about the lilies. Stella d'Oro lilies are new-fangled tetraploid lilies, that are easy to grow and look like plastic even when they aren't. Not long after their introduction, they became popular for beds around municipal buildings and other places where nobody really cares about the flowers, but the public expects to see them. My sister thinks they look plastic because every single element of the bloom is the same color.

lily

I have some at the street level in front of my house, and they thrive in that difficult environment. Every time I see the blooms I think "What an icky shade of orange."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 06:17 PM

Hi, Leeneia - I thought the "Mor-ris Mi-nor re-paint-ed tan-ger-ine" was clever...and funny.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 05:07 PM

Thanks, Joe.

I got the idea for naming objects to mistake for a fox from a post by Herga Kitty in 2009. She had been at a festival and had heard a verse about the family tomcat being mistaken for Bold Reynard. For me, the rest was simply a matter of thinking up things that are orange.

The day I was writing it, the DH and stopped for burgers at a local bar, and Oklahoma State was playing football on the TV. Their Halloween-esque helmets fit right in.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: GerryM
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 12:12 AM

Sorry I got to the singaround too late to hear your song, leeneia. To me, Stella d'Oro was a bakery near the 238th Street station on the #1 train line in the Bronx, a bakery that filled the nearby streets with wonderful smells that I enjoyed as I took that train to high school and back several hundred times. Their Swiss Fudge cookies were to die for.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: fun parody of The Merry Huntsmen
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Nov 22 - 06:55 PM

What a lovely memory. I could go for a Swiss Fudge cookie or five.

When I was a second-grader in Chicago, there was a bakery downstairs, and the fragrance of it was heavenly.