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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: lowspark Date: July 2, 2018, 10:54 am
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=295.msg4361#msg4361
date=1528128534]
Credence Clearwater Revival lyrics often seem to lend themselves
to mondergreens. I don’t know how many people thought ‘There’s
a Bad Moon on the Rise’ was ‘There’s a Bathroom on the Right’.
Perhaps it’s because the song was heard in bars or pubs fairly
late on a Friday or Saturday evening.
‘Down on the Corner’ lyrics could almost warrant a thread of
their own.
[/quote]
Someone I knew as a kid thought it was "There's a baboon on the
ride." I always picture a large simian on a motorcycle whizzing
past, its fur blowing back.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: cabbageweevil Date: July 5, 2018, 10:42 am
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[quote author=Twik link=topic=295.msg7524#msg7524
date=1530545498]
[quote author=cabbageweevil link=topic=295.msg5178#msg5178
date=1528789169]
[quote author=Aleko link=topic=295.msg4610#msg4610
date=1528278802]
[snip] ...the ballad of Sir Patrick Spens... (His ship sank, and
his ballad ends 'Half owre, half owre to Aberdour / Tis forty
fathoms deep, / And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens / With the
Scots lords at his feet.')
[/quote]
Topic-drifting somewhat: I'm reminded of the first verse of Sir
Patrick Spens:
The King sits in Dunfermline toun,
Drinking the blude-red wine;
"O whaur sall I get a skeely {=skilful} skipper
Tae sail this new ship of mine?"
The following, not truly a Mondergreen; rather, a deliberate
misunderstanding / corrupting of the words: generations of
English school-kids, given this ballad in its strange variety of
the language by their teachers to read; delighted in rendering
the last two words of line 3, as "scaly kipper" [smoked
preserved herring].
I have the feeling that the ballad of Sir Patrick was a "school"
thing for past generations rather than more recent times. In a
quiz / competition exercise on another board not long ago, I
alluded to it -- verse 1, as above; the board is frequented by
many perfectly intelligent, well-educated people -- however,
nobody had the slightest idea what I was on about. My brother, a
decade younger than me, is a very bright guy with a fine breadth
of interests; it turned out that he'd never heard of Sir Patrick
Spens either. I reckon that kids usually love this ballad when
they come across it: it's gruesome and silly, by turns -- right
up their street.
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I read Sir Patrick in university. Man, that was a long time ago.
[/quote]
Always nice to come across someone who's familiar with the
ballad; which has always tickled my fancy.
I gather that opinions vary, as to whether there is anything --
and if so, how much -- truly historical, in the tale of Sir P.'s
ill-fated exploit. It has been suggested that it was -- loosely
-- inspired by King James VI of Scotland and I of England's
(successful) mission in 1589 to Denmark, to fetch back to
Scotland his bride, the princess Anne of that country (weather
vicissitudes diverted things for the participants, to Norway) --
with the occasional sly dig at James's personal peculiarities;
but others opine that the ballad is older than that. "Whatever"
-- grand stuff IMO.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Stanwyck Date: July 6, 2018, 3:00 pm
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For years I thought "lay me down in sheets of leather" were the
correct lyrics. To be fair, Elton did wear a Donald Duck costume
in a concert, so why wouldn't he like leather sheets?
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: cabbageweevil Date: July 7, 2018, 3:12 pm
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I'm a bit at a loose end -- if topic-drifting here, please tell
me to take myself off. A variant of the Mondergreen, is the
school-kid's misunderstanding (unintentional -- the
"accidentally-on-purpose" kind is closely related) of what their
teachers attempt to teach. One of such which I have always
liked, is: "the Equator is a menagerie lion running round the
world".
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Amethyst Anne Date: July 12, 2018, 8:43 pm
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Last year some time, I was listening and singing along to the
songs on one of the oldies XM satellite radio stations, when
Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Love” came on.
I got mixed up and sang, “.......50 ways to love your liver....”
Oops.
I liked it sung that way so much that I’ve kept singing it that
way. :D
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: baritone108 Date: July 12, 2018, 9:52 pm
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There's a Canadian infantry regiment called the Princess
Patricia Light Infantry (also fondly called the Princess Pat).
Their song begins, "The Princess Pat Light Infantry" which the
Girl Scouts of the USA has turned into "The Princess Pat lived
in a tree". The entire GS song is pretty much a mondergreen of
the regimental song and the vast majority of scouts have no
idea, never having heard of the regimental song. On the other
hand, some Canadians get really offended by the GS song.
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: lowspark Date: July 13, 2018, 12:06 pm
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[quote author=baritone108 link=topic=295.msg8497#msg8497
date=1531450328]
There's a Canadian infantry regiment called the Princess
Patricia Light Infantry (also fondly called the Princess Pat).
Their song begins, "The Princess Pat Light Infantry" which the
Girl Scouts of the USA has turned into "The Princess Pat lived
in a tree". The entire GS song is pretty much a mondergreen of
the regimental song and the vast majority of scouts have no
idea, never having heard of the regimental song. On the other
hand, some Canadians get really offended by the GS song.
[/quote]
Wut!! I had no idea!! I love the Princess Pat song and when I
was a Girl Scout leader, it was one of my favorite songs to do
with the girls. I'm going to go look up the actual lyrics now.
Who knew!!
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Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Pattycake Date: July 13, 2018, 1:27 pm
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[quote author=lowspark link=topic=295.msg8558#msg8558
date=1531501606]
[quote author=baritone108 link=topic=295.msg8497#msg8497
date=1531450328]
There's a Canadian infantry regiment called the Princess
Patricia Light Infantry (also fondly called the Princess Pat).
Their song begins, "The Princess Pat Light Infantry" which the
Girl Scouts of the USA has turned into "The Princess Pat lived
in a tree". The entire GS song is pretty much a mondergreen of
the regimental song and the vast majority of scouts have no
idea, never having heard of the regimental song. On the other
hand, some Canadians get really offended by the GS song.
[/quote]
Wut!! I had no idea!! I love the Princess Pat song and when I
was a Girl Scout leader, it was one of my favorite songs to do
with the girls. I'm going to go look up the actual lyrics now.
Who knew!!
[/quote]
And I know the Princess Pats quite well, as they were stationed
in my city for many many years! I even dated a PPCLI (that was
more common than calling them Princess Pats - PPCLI=Princess
Patricia Corps Light Infantry) or two. Never knew there was a GS
song.
#Post#: 8610--------------------------------------------------
Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: Amethyst Anne Date: July 13, 2018, 5:41 pm
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One of the characters in the Downton Abbey series was from that
unit. Cool!
#Post#: 10100--------------------------------------------------
Re: How About Some Mondergreens?
By: gmatoy Date: July 30, 2018, 11:33 pm
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Canada's National Anthem says "we stand on guard for thee" but I
had only heard it sung and I thought they said, "we stand on God
for thee."
I now know the correct words, but I'm a little disappointed.
Standing on God seemed cool to me.
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