Hybrid Lyrics

Subject: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Dunc
Date: 21 Jun 01 - 05:09 AM

My friend sings a song with the following lyric...

"Everyone's SEARCHING for some kind of love"

I sing the same song but with one word changed... I sing "Everyone's LOOKING for some kind of love"

When we sing it together we get a hybrid lyric with a slightly different meaning.
Together it comes out as, "Everyone's SOOKING for some kind of love"

Any other examples of hybrid lyrics?

Subject: RE: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Les from Hull
Date: 21 Jun 01 - 06:28 AM

Why not lurching? At least its a word!

Subject: RE: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jun 01 - 03:53 PM

At the DC Chantey sing earlier this week, there was a chorus of Poor Old Horse, which I had learned as Poor Old Man, so when I sang along and tried to switch to the consensus chorus midstream, it kind of came out Poor Old Morse...

Subject: RE: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 21 Jun 01 - 05:15 PM

Those compounds are referred to as "portmanteau" words--"suitcase words" to carry mutiple references. Webster gives the classic example smoke + fog = smog. I believe it was "Lewis Carroll" who coined the term.

CC

Subject: RE: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 21 Jun 01 - 05:32 PM

*Singing*

"Wookin' pa nub in naall de looong places"

LOL!!!!

Subject: RE: Hybrid Lyrics
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 11:25 AM

The possibility that superposed words might yield something extra to the listener was frequently exploited in bawdy rounds in the 18th century. For example:

He who would an alehouse keep
Must have three things in store:
A chamber with a featherbed
A chimney and a hey-nonny-nonny...