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07 Oct 98 - 01:54 PM (#40723) Subject: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: The Shambles My dear wife whilst performing the song: Song for Ireland. The line should be- We watched the Galway salmon run. Which came out as- We watched the Solway gammon run. |
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07 Oct 98 - 03:56 PM (#40737) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Barry Finn "Our hands are on the Broccoli Moor", should've been "Our hands are on the broad claymore" (2 handed sword) There was a thread qutie awhile back on these titled Montygreens (sp?). Barry |
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07 Oct 98 - 05:18 PM (#40750) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Art Thieme once heard a quite famous singer of ballads , while singing "THE FLYING CLOUD",come to the line We'll hoist the pirate flag aloft... but it came out: We'll hoist the pilot frog aloft. Art |
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07 Oct 98 - 10:59 PM (#40807) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Charlie Baum When we got tired of a particular glee club arrangement of "High Barbary," we changed: "Until at last the pirate blew the frigate's mast away" to: "Until at last they blew the friggin' pirate's mast away." --Charlie Baum |
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07 Oct 98 - 11:20 PM (#40814) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Helen Barry, The thread was about mondegreens. Look here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=2229 Helen |
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07 Oct 98 - 11:39 PM (#40821) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Barry Finn Thanks Helen, if I'd have done better with my spelling I'd have gotten their under my own speed. Barry |
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08 Oct 98 - 03:44 AM (#40843) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: BSeed Barry, the word is Mondegreens--Jon Carroll, an SF Chronicle columnist, coined the term--based on someone's mis-hearing of a line from "Lord Randall": "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen." --seed |
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08 Oct 98 - 06:43 AM (#40858) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: AndyG I once attended the recording of a pilot TV show, (it was never broadcast), for a show starring Mike Harding & Bill Tidy (UK readers should know them both).
Mike performed the following ditty of which I only remember the first and last verses. The following is a phonetic transcription. ^^ The Basity Chelt
Poh ray mental jayden may I lee your buvver
Kenter your eep nonny-nonny
... missing bits ...
Alas and alack I am focked up lorever - (sing this carefully)
It's funnier than than the rugby club version.
AndyG
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08 Oct 98 - 09:12 AM (#40873) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Bert How about "A Grazing Mace" which can be found here in out dear old DT. http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=24 Bert. |
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08 Oct 98 - 02:12 PM (#40899) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Dawn I think there may be a difference between a "spoonerism" - which would be the singer muffing a line (whether intentional or not) and a mondegreen, where the error is on the part of the listener. There are whole web-pages of mondegreens out there - some of them are pretty hilarious. Typing "mondegreen" in a search engine will yield many. |
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08 Oct 98 - 03:21 PM (#40908) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Bert A Spoonerism is where the beginnings of two words are interchanged. My mother used to do it all the time. Her best one was with the saying "that will keep the rats from gnawing" (an English saying, said when giving food to someone who is hungry) It came out... "that will keep the gnats from roaring" Bert. |
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08 Oct 98 - 05:45 PM (#40930) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: The Shambles I think the best one, not in a song was, again my wife, when she wanted to be firm with me after a minor row. She put her hands on her hips, with great delight, thinking that this would shut me up, quoted "frankly my damm I don't give a dear". Bless her. |
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08 Oct 98 - 08:47 PM (#40963) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca What version of High Barbary is that? The version I know has the pirate's mast shot away, and the pirates all massacred. |
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08 Oct 98 - 09:29 PM (#40978) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Barbara Shaw My husband and I got two hats at DisneyWorld: Dopey and Grumpy. I was looking for them one day and said, "Where are the Gropey and Dumpy hats?" Could also be Droopy and Gumpy. All combinations seem to fit us one way or another. . . |
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09 Oct 98 - 12:03 AM (#41006) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: BSeed Of course mondegreens are not spoonerisms, but they have their own charm: Gladly the cross-eyed bear Round young virgin mother and child The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue --seed |
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09 Oct 98 - 12:06 AM (#41007) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Barbara |
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09 Oct 98 - 12:39 AM (#41011) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: John in Brisbane To follow on from Barbara's example, I have changed the words to songs deliberately while performing, just for the sake of mischief and fun - often to include other members of the band, or some topical event. Often this was for a Standard that I had sung scores of times previously and could sing in my sleep. The trouble is (with my awful memory0 that the mischief becomes instantly ingrained. Trying to NOT do it I now find very hard.
As an example I used to sing a fun Aussie song called Euabolong Ball, with lyrics that went in part:
"Though the water was scarce there was whiskey to spare, what they didn't swallow they rubbed in their (substitute Barbara's or Joe's or whoever's) hair." That works fine until you spontaneously decide to change it to ... "Though the water was scarce, there was scotch in the hall"... and you then have to quickly decide whether to make it rhyme in the next line.
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24 Aug 01 - 08:13 PM (#534852) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Genie I posted a couple of examples under "Lyr. reg.: Round John Virgin" recently, trying to start a thread. Then I found the links to these "mondegreen" threads. Wow! |
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25 Aug 01 - 01:59 AM (#534995) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mark Cohen Somebody must know all of the Spooneristic classic Beeping Slooty....the only line I remember is "Meanwhile, around the castle, a horny gedge threw up." Aloha, Mark |
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25 Aug 01 - 05:39 AM (#535020) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: DG&D Dave2 My favorite Spoonerism is from the Steeleye Span song "One Misty Moisty Morning" I'll plough and sow and reap and mow while you shall spit and sin! (sit and spin). Dave |
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25 Aug 01 - 05:58 AM (#535025) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Dave the Gnome Yes - misheard or missung lyrics are indeed Mondegreens, although I believe it was a lady columist in the Glasgow Herald who first used the 'Lady Mondegreen' line. Funny thing was my first ever posting to the Mudcat was asking if anyone had heard of a 'Mondelawn'. I had heard the term on the radio and mis-remembered! Hows about that then - a nested Mondegreen:-) Ronnie Barker was a master at portraying Prof. Spooner in the two Ronnies TV series. But don't even mention 70's pop band Bucks Fizz.... Gnave the Dome |
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25 Aug 01 - 06:31 AM (#535030) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mark Cohen Well, I couldn't find the text to Beeping Slooty, but I did discover that it was the creation of F. Chase Taylor, a/k/a Colonel Stoopnagle, who was an old radio comedian. Here's the text of his Prinderella and the Since, which was published in his long out-of-print book, "My Tale is Twisted". And here's a site all about Colonel Stoopnagle himself. Interestingly, there is a website dedicated to Spoonerisms, in which several people have submitted Stoopnagle's stories without attribution, some as their own creations. So it doesn't just happen with folk songs! Aloha, Mark |
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25 Aug 01 - 08:12 AM (#535043) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: iamjohnne I still remember Archie Campbell on Hee Haw telling the story of the "Three Pittle Ligs" I too have heard in the past about Prinderella marrying the since and hiving lappoly ever after. Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes"
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25 Aug 01 - 08:23 AM (#535046) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: fat B****rd Aw ! Slop your dripper |
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25 Aug 01 - 10:36 AM (#535078) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Nancy King at work The third verse of "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" starts out "Trim your feeble lamps, my brothers..." Because of the phrasing of the melody, it's much easier to sing, "Trim your lamps, my feeble brothers..." and once you've done it that way, it takes real concentration to sing it correctly. Cheers, Nancy |
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25 Aug 01 - 12:30 PM (#535119) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: sophocleese "God mess ye bleary mental gents" has always been one of my favourite lines to kick off the Christmas season. |
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25 Aug 01 - 04:09 PM (#535196) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Dave the Gnome Nah - the truer Spistmas Chroonerism - although not politicaly correct if you are either German or mentaly unstable is "God rest ye Gerry Mentlemen..." Cheers GtD
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25 Aug 01 - 04:21 PM (#535207) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,DeadHorse A morris colleague was singing Black Velvet Band and had imbibed a few beers. He ended up doing "three years senile pervitude" and every time he has sung that song since, we always laugh when he gets to that bit, even tho he NEVER got it wrong again. |
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25 Aug 01 - 05:49 PM (#535259) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mark Cohen DtG, Allan Sherman did it this way: God rest ye, Jerry Mendelbaum Let nothing you dismay This May you had a rotten month So what is there to say? Let's hope next May is better And good things will come your way And then you'll have a month without dismay Next May Aloha, Mark |
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03 Sep 01 - 11:51 PM (#541246) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Genie This is not quite a spoonerism, but it is a lyrical malaprop. I often sing "Hey, Good Lookin'" at retirement homes. Several years ago, after being well into the song and repeating a main line --"How's about cookin' somethin'up with me?" several times, I realized, to my combined horror and amusement, that I had been singing, "How's about keeping somethin' up for me?" Having realized my mistake, I tried very hard to sing the line correctly, but for several weeks, if I did not concentrate-- if I let my mind go on 'auto-pilot' - I reverted to the (Freudian?) slip of the tongue. I don't know if any of my senior clients noticed. If they did, they were too polite to point out my error. |
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04 Sep 01 - 08:27 AM (#541440) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,redhorse At a singaround a few years back, someone - I think it may have been Eileen Pratt - recounted how she has never been able to sing one particular song again since the line "she mounted on her swift steed" came out as"she mounted on her stiff Swede" |
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04 Sep 01 - 09:40 AM (#541485) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Trevor My twin daughters used to compete in pairs competitions on their ponies Foxy and Puck. How many commentators got it wrong? Laugh, we almost did. |
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06 Sep 01 - 02:40 AM (#543163) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: fat B****rd Years ago I made a demo of Otis Redding's "Sweet Lorrine" which had her making me meep and woan. The demo didn't do us much good anyway. |
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06 Sep 01 - 03:11 AM (#543168) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Genie From time to time when I sing "Edelweiss," I end up singing, "...Blossom of snow may you groom and blow, groom and blow forever ... ." Genie |
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06 Sep 01 - 05:14 AM (#543208) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: KingBrilliant Half a spoonerism - I keep singing the snow it melts the soonest when the wind begins to sing, the swallow swims without a care.... Kris |
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06 Sep 01 - 07:20 AM (#543255) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,micca at work The one you definately (and it is difficult not to)Spoonerise, is Joan From Wigans " Pheasant plckers song" example chorus "I'm not a pheasent plucker, I'm pheasant pluckers son I'm only plucking Pheasents 'til the pheasant plucker comes try this at the speed Joan does the last chorus!!!!! |
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06 Sep 01 - 09:23 AM (#543321) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Deckman This thread reminds me of the time that my twist got all tongued up in my eyetooth and I couldn't see what I was saying! |
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06 Sep 01 - 10:08 AM (#543346) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Fin Micca, "The pheasant plucker" it makes me all twitter and bisted that I still can't get that one straight, even after forty years (or more.) Fin |
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06 Sep 01 - 10:13 AM (#543349) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: KingBrilliant Not a song, but.... During a driving lesson some years ago I was trying to use the classic 'I keep getting my mucking ferds wuddled' line - but accidentally said ..... the unmuddled version. I had to stop driving for a while and tears of laughter were pouring down my face. The driving instructor was completely nonplussed - it took some explaining I can tell you! Kris |
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06 Sep 01 - 04:40 PM (#543733) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: lady penelope Jasper Carrot recorded Bastity Chelt, it's on record somewhere...... TTFN M'Lady P. |
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06 Sep 01 - 11:25 PM (#544118) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Arjay When my little brother was a teenager, he and his buddies used to use deliberate spoonerisms to disguise "forbidden" words. E.g., they would say, "I need to pake a tiss," I have to crake a tap," etc. One time, though, they didn't think it through and the deliberate spoonerism came out "I have to shake a tit." This particular one was said to my brother's buddy's very prim and proper mother, who was not amused. Arjay |
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07 Sep 01 - 05:40 AM (#544274) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Whippet I have a friend of mine who likes the odd spliff or two. When we were at Warwick Folk Festival a few years back his mother sat in the audience listening to someone singing 'Fiddler Green' she came up to us at the bar and said to her son 'Did that singer really sing 'Just tell me I'm shitfaced and taking a trip mate@ ? It really cracked us up !! |
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07 Sep 01 - 07:22 AM (#544322) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Dunc Not part of a song...But at a festival once, a traditional singer called Doris Rougvie once called a man bringing her a drink her "Shite in Nining Armour". That same weekend I found myself refering to a passenger boat on the English Channel as a "Cross Flannel Cherry". |
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07 Sep 01 - 10:51 AM (#544461) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Jenn From Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Raven," (last stanza): "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door." "...on the pallid busted phallus just above..." |
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07 Sep 01 - 02:40 PM (#544633) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Ditchdweller Did hear a recording of someone with the lines from "Everything is Beautiful":- It don't matter about the colour of their hair, Or the length of his skin!!! |
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07 Sep 01 - 05:39 PM (#544774) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: weepiper When I was small I used to listen to - 'Sovay, Sovay, all on a day, she dressed herself in man's array' thinking 'manzaret' must be a colour or a kind of dress or something! |
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07 Sep 01 - 06:56 PM (#544824) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Lonesome EJ For Dave the Gnome: Just had to mention that my brother wants to start a "hows about that club" and since you must remember Jimmy Saville, perhaps you'd like to join?! It gets a bit lonely saying hows about that guys and gals, all by your self! Lion (lej's wife) |
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08 Sep 01 - 01:58 AM (#545006) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: John Kidder Spoonerisms are named after William Archibald Spooner, a clergyman, Warden of New College, Oxford from 1093 to 1924. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations cites "You will find as you grow older that the weight of rages will press harder and harder upon the employer", and "Her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries, poor soul." My mother always said that Spooner was most famous for asking a congregation to sing "Kinquering Congs their Titles Take". John Kidder |
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08 Sep 01 - 11:52 AM (#545167) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Phillip Old time country comedian Archie Campbell, late of Hee-Haw fame, had a couple of albums of "Tairy Fales". These were his twisted renditions of the classic stories with the added Spooner twists. Some of them have become classics, recited at country gatherings and cowboy poetry gatherings. The best I can recall was the tale of Rindercella who slopped her dripper and eventually married the pransome hince! |
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08 Sep 01 - 03:52 PM (#545281) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Jenny H I've never been quite sure whether the line in 'New York Girls' that goes I'll never court another girl, I'll stick to rum and beer
is itself a bowdlerising spoonerism, a cheeky (oh, dear, sorry, I didn't mean that) temptation to spoonerise, or wholly innocent; I find the last the least likely theory
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09 Sep 01 - 05:07 AM (#545539) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Genie The Reverend Spooner also referred to his congregation once as, "ye tons of soil," instead of "sons of toil," and referred to himself as "the shoving leopard of his flock." Genie |
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09 Sep 01 - 06:45 AM (#545557) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mr Red as a cyclist he also liked a "well boiled icicle" I doubt he ever sang "Martin said to his Man" but many have including the verse I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me which can be scanned if you are persistent and the punchline? I think you are all ahead of me - except those with a full frontal lobotomy! |
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09 Sep 01 - 12:13 PM (#545684) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Nigel.Parsons Oft claimed examples from the Rev. Spooner also include his admonition to a student..."Sir, you have tasted two worms, and will leave by the town drain" And the loyal toast "Jadies and lentil men, glaze your asses to the queer old dean" |
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10 Sep 01 - 03:31 AM (#546033) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Genie Ah, yes, Snosrap, I remember the address of the Queen as "the queer old dean." That's the one I was trying to recall. |
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03 May 04 - 08:20 AM (#1176817) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mr Happy I've a children's tape of Jon Pertwee singing 'The Runaway Train' In one verse he sings 'the driver got an awful fright, it scared him so he i>turned haired white!<' |
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03 May 04 - 10:26 AM (#1176881) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Charley Noble Mr. Red- Another spoonerism verse for "Martin Said to His Man" is this beauty: I saw a butterfly flutter by, Fie, man, fie; I saw a butterfly flutter by, Who's the fool now? I saw a butterfly flutter by, Saw a dragonfly drink a flagon dry! I have well drunken and who's the fool now? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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03 May 04 - 11:00 AM (#1176895) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST As far as I can remember, it was one Sylvia Wright who invented the Mondegreen, after hearing the line in "The Bonnie Earl of Moray". They have slain the Earl of Moray And laid him on the green which she thought was: They have slain the Earl of Moray And Lady Mondegreen There are or were at least a couple of websites about Mondegreens; sorry I don't know the URLs, but you could try looking up "Mondegreen" on the Internet. Strictly speaking a Spoonerism is where the first bits of adjacent or nearby words get tranposed, as in "Drink a Toast to the Dear Old Queen (Queer Old Dean)". A book I have called "The Dictionary of Common Fallacies" seems to imply that "Spoonerisms were not a recurrent feature of the speech of Reverend William Spooner" though as it gives several examples of spoonerisms, it may be tongue in cheek (or should that be Chung in Teak?). Whether true or not, I very much doubt if he was the first person in the English (or other) language to get bits of words transposed. |
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03 May 04 - 05:20 PM (#1177142) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Joe_F The full text of the apocryphal scolding is: Young man, you have tasted this entire worm. You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and have been caught fighting a liar in the quad. You must leave Oxford by the town drain. |
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04 May 04 - 01:23 AM (#1177450) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: RWilhelm "I Get My Mirds Wixed Up" Mic Conway's National Junk Band |
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04 May 04 - 04:58 PM (#1177775) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Joe_F The Saturday Evening Post used to have a regular column of spoonerisms. I recall from my childhood one entitled "How to Slow to Geep" that ended with the desperate suggestion "a moakress eethed in satter". |
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05 May 04 - 05:31 AM (#1178286) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Dave Bryant Well there's always "The whore's-bed carol" ! |
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05 May 04 - 07:58 AM (#1178374) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST From The Downeaster Alexa: "There's no f*ckin' swordfish in here" (no luck in swordfishing here) |
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18 Mar 09 - 12:45 AM (#2591528) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: GUEST,Salamander '72 Kenny Roger's "Lucille" What was "...four hungry children and a crop in the field..." sounded to me like "...four hundred children and a crop..." For many years I wondered why he didn't round up the kids and make them pick the crop. |
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18 Mar 09 - 03:40 AM (#2591546) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Herga Kitty Not a song but a recitation - Derby Ram (Keith Kendrick) performs the story of Robin Hood, including the wedding ceremony conducted by Friar Tuck..... Kitty |
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18 Mar 09 - 03:55 AM (#2591549) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Georgiansilver The Bee Gees Song... 'Saved by the bell'... If you google a search for lyrics of this song you will likely come up with one that has the words "Now I walk down our great lane" which should be not OUR GREAT but HEARTBREAK ........ I have found those words on a few lyric sites so I reckon they copy them from each other.... one gets it wrong and they all do! Best wishes, Mike., |
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18 Mar 09 - 04:06 AM (#2591555) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Mavis Enderby One of these days I know I'm going to mess up the Big Rock Candy Mountain.... Pete |
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18 Mar 09 - 05:16 AM (#2591581) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: pavane Likewise (mondegreen, not spoonerism) the lyrics of Carly Simon's "You're so vain" often have the phrase quoted "scarf which was Afric cut" - I am sure it should be Apricot. But the UK transcriber was probably not aware of US pronunciation. (Here we say "AYpricot" not AHpricot) |
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18 Mar 09 - 05:48 AM (#2591593) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: bubblyrat One of my favourite "out-takes" from the TV show "It'll Be Alright On The Night", is the BBC regional news-reader reporting on the mother who took her little daughter to play on the beach,and was later horrified to find her playing with a " Hypodeemic Nerdle". |
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18 Mar 09 - 06:39 AM (#2591620) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Frank_Finn In the song The Green Fields of America there is a line "So here's to you Bessie my one blue-eyed lassie" I'm always afraid I will sing it as ".... my blue one-eyed lassie" |
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18 Mar 09 - 10:14 AM (#2591742) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: SINSULL Posted this before: Upon first hearing the tune "Just Call Me Angel Of The Morning" I swore she sang "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby" |
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18 Mar 09 - 10:42 AM (#2591759) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: JohnB I had a freind who worked in a Travel agency, he asked this rather atractive lady one day "if she would like a fooking borm" JohnB. |
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18 Mar 09 - 12:12 PM (#2591826) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Bill D "mess up the Big Rock Candy Mountain...." Oh, thanks a LOT! Now *I'm* thinking about it! |
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18 Mar 09 - 01:47 PM (#2591901) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: bubblyrat How about " Knocking on Devon's Whore " ?? |
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18 Mar 09 - 01:53 PM (#2591907) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: bubblyrat Not to mention "Billing the Clues", " Your Heating-Chart",and the rather unsavoury "Seep on the Cunny Side" (Sorry ). |
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18 Mar 09 - 09:39 PM (#2592240) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Gweltas Ha Ha, Bill D, I agree..........I will never again be able to think of "Big Rock Candy Mountain" in the same way ever again !! |
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18 Mar 09 - 10:11 PM (#2592257) Subject: RE: Spoonerism's in songs- Examples From: Gweltas The one that went down in our family folklore was when my late father was attempting to renew the electrical wiring(flex) for a light in our kitchen and found himself in need of a phillip's screwdriver, which we didn't have, so my late mother (a very prim and proper lady) dashed out to our neighbour's busy shop to ask if she could borrow the required article, which the neighbour duly produced and, being slightly curious, asked my mother why it was required --- my mother's breathless response, in the hearing of a shop full of customers, was "It's because my husband is putting sex in the feeling" (instead of "flex in the ceiling" !!) She was so profoundly embarrassed about it that she couldn't face back in there for about 6 months afterwards and obliged us kids to do all her shopping for her in the meantime. I reckon that it runs in the family as I have frequently been guilty of getting my wucking murds fuddled, most recently when referring to the Falmouth Shanty Festival (in Cornwall) as the "Shalmouth Panty Festival" -- where I got the letter P from, when there is no P in the proper title, is a complete mystery. I am now terrified to refer to that festival as the wrong version just keeps wanting to come out and I have to think very carefully before mentioning it in polite conversation. |