BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)

Subject: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 10:35 PM

You know `em... those times your mouth (and other parts) get ahead of your grey matter.

Like saying, "That's not Brain Science (or "Rocket Surgery)".
A buddy once desribed an individual he knew as being "paralyzed from the waist up".
Or maybe you mixed up song lyrics and came up with some strange images, or perhaps a new verse, like:
(instead of I'll Tell Me Ma):

My Pa told Ma, when he got home
"Clean up the house; get off the phone!"...


You know ye got `em. Let's hear `em!

Testify, o ye brothers and sisters!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 05:42 AM

I can never manage to sing the line 'Seven long years have I been waiting for my Willie-O' without substituting 'searching' for 'waiting'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 08:35 AM

When I started learning Tom Lewis's 'sailor's Prayer' I would consistently sing 'sells bad steel to whalers' instead of 'sells bad beer to sailors'

don't know WHY!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 08:46 AM

Seems every time I do a song, it's an adventure. Never know where I'm gonna have to improvise the lyrics... But playing blues ain't like opther songs since if ya get *Brain Fade* then all ya gotta do is throw in "Woke up this mornin..." and everything solves itself...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Snuffy
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 09:12 AM

Mario, a couple of mondegreens from 'Sailor's Prayer'

With Judy Lee all on my knee
And in my ear a lion

Oh Lord above, send down a dove
With beakers sharp as razors

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 09:14 AM

Back when the Catholic Mass was still in Latin and I was very young indeed, the Plainsong response "Et cum spiritu tuo" ("And with your spirit") was misheard and then missung by yours truly as "Evil spirits toots and true." When asked to explain it, I replied that I couldn't because I didn't know Latin. For a bit I had several members of the class singing it my way, too. Had I been left unchecked I could have changed the course of history!

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Cluin
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 04:28 PM

Like the story of the kids overheard holding a funeral service for a dead animal:

In the name of the Father... and the Son... in the hole he goes...

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 06:31 PM

Ah, kin to 'Gladly, my cross eyed bear'.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 07:17 PM

We've been here before about the time I came in but it's a fun thread anyway.
I have to say that our National anthem is not at all inspiring, but it's vastly improved if you replace the words:
"Australian all let us rejoice"
with
"Australians all eat ostriches"

Also now that it's nearly Christmas - I really like the carol about the "round young virgin tender and mild"

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: GUEST,Strick
Date: 22 Nov 03 - 09:08 AM

"The Singing Brain Farts". Hmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Brain Farts You Have Known (and Sung)
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 03 - 10:04 AM

Does poetry count? My brother often recites a line from Moore's "A Visit From St. Nicholas" as

"...and he filled all the stockings with ashes and soot."