Silly Songs
Jun. 16th, 2004 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kukla_tkoI can't claim any of these. My own spin might be applied to some of them, but these are simply some of the silly songs my mother taught me as a child.
Tarzan Flies
Tarzan flies through the air
Tarzan loses his underwear
Tarzan say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
Boy flies through the air
Boy loses his underwear
Boy say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
Cheetah flies through the air
Cheetah loses his underwear
Cheetah say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
(In case you don't remember, Cheetah was the monkey pet on the Tarzan tv show.)
Jane flies through the air
Jane loses his underwear
Jane say, "Me no care,
Tarzan make me another pair."
(Except that when I got old enough to understand it, the last line was replaced by: "Tarzan likes me better... Bare.")
The Window Song
This is a very silly sing-along parody of any and all children's verse.
Ok, I have seen people and songbooks try to get away with this one by singing "High-low, Low-High" in the middle. Nope, it's a deliberately difficult to pronounce chorus. See if you can keep up with me while I sing it, sometime.
It is designed to piggyback all kinds of nursery rhymes. One starts with the first few lines of a well-known nursery rhyme, and then cut in with the "Window Refrain."
For example:
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
AAAAAAND Threw it out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He stuck in his thumb
and pulled out a plumb...
AAAAAAND Threw it out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep
and doesn't know where to find 'em,
Leave them alone,
and they'll come home...
AAAAAAND Threw her out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Miss Muffett
Sat on a tuffett
eating her curds and whey,
along came a spider
who sat down beside her
AAAAAAND Threw her out the window,
The Window,
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
IT goes on like this, each person taking a verse. You can do "Jack Sprat" or "Humpty Dumpty." "Peter Peter pumpkin eater" is especially strange.
It is, (for those of you who have read "The Frogs") A Little Bottle Of Oil. If you curl any random verse around the tune, by the time you get to the cue, you have set up two characters, or a single character and an object. And someone goes out the window!
But wait, there's more. You can do the Moose Song that way. You can do Greensleeves that way. You can do other childhood songs that way. The Tarzan song comes out with him having thrown his underwear out the window.
I am going to start adding in pop songs and random drinking songs and see what happens the next time we sing this one...
Tarzan Flies
Tarzan flies through the air
Tarzan loses his underwear
Tarzan say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
Boy flies through the air
Boy loses his underwear
Boy say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
Cheetah flies through the air
Cheetah loses his underwear
Cheetah say, "Me no care,
Jane will make me another pair."
(In case you don't remember, Cheetah was the monkey pet on the Tarzan tv show.)
Jane flies through the air
Jane loses his underwear
Jane say, "Me no care,
Tarzan make me another pair."
(Except that when I got old enough to understand it, the last line was replaced by: "Tarzan likes me better... Bare.")
The Window Song
This is a very silly sing-along parody of any and all children's verse.
Ok, I have seen people and songbooks try to get away with this one by singing "High-low, Low-High" in the middle. Nope, it's a deliberately difficult to pronounce chorus. See if you can keep up with me while I sing it, sometime.
It is designed to piggyback all kinds of nursery rhymes. One starts with the first few lines of a well-known nursery rhyme, and then cut in with the "Window Refrain."
For example:
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
AAAAAAND Threw it out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He stuck in his thumb
and pulled out a plumb...
AAAAAAND Threw it out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep
and doesn't know where to find 'em,
Leave them alone,
and they'll come home...
AAAAAAND Threw her out the window,
The Window
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
Little Miss Muffett
Sat on a tuffett
eating her curds and whey,
along came a spider
who sat down beside her
AAAAAAND Threw her out the window,
The Window,
The Second-Story window!
If you can't sing the rhyme
and sing it in time,
We'll throw you out the window!
IT goes on like this, each person taking a verse. You can do "Jack Sprat" or "Humpty Dumpty." "Peter Peter pumpkin eater" is especially strange.
It is, (for those of you who have read "The Frogs") A Little Bottle Of Oil. If you curl any random verse around the tune, by the time you get to the cue, you have set up two characters, or a single character and an object. And someone goes out the window!
But wait, there's more. You can do the Moose Song that way. You can do Greensleeves that way. You can do other childhood songs that way. The Tarzan song comes out with him having thrown his underwear out the window.
I am going to start adding in pop songs and random drinking songs and see what happens the next time we sing this one...
