Posted on 12/30/2023 5:49:43 PM PST by DoodleBob
Actually I like the new words better
It will drive the alphabet people insane
Interesting. Never figured that out myself, but it makes sense now.
I sure do. But I never knew there was more than the first two verses. It’s possible it was re-used in a shorter version. I recall a collection called G.O. Fizzical Pogo, where I might have seen it. The reference was to the “International Geophysical year” from mid-1957 to the end of 1958, and the swamp characters commenting that it was an eighteen month year, and would there be one and a half Christmases?
Don’t say gay?
I do
Hey guys….I got it! Let’s really stick it to them. Let’s get rid of “gay” in that Christmas song…ya know, the one that has that “fah-la-lala-laaa” thing in it?
Wow…yeah! That’s so funny! Great idea!
Right? It is SOOOO obvious. And it’ll annoy sooooo many of those Nazi MAGA people, that they’ll never stop writing about it!
Ooooo….will we get interviewed by Anderson Cooper?
Uh huh…I bet we will get lots of press!
We will be heroes!
All that Mouseketeering was exHAUSting! Let’s go out and have some quiche.
Thanks! Love it!
Actually I like the new words better, fa la la la laaa, la la, la, laaaaa
It’s catchy.
Interesting. This is from Vocabulary.com.
The word doff and its antonym don date to the mid-14th century. Doff is a contraction of “do (take) off,” and don is short for “do (put) on.” By 1755, these words were all but obsolete, but they came back into vogue thanks to Sir Walter Scott, author of works like Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake. The popular Scottish author used them frequently, and he and his readers kept doff and don alive.
Well, there are also the original lyrics of My Old Kentucky Home......I guess we wont be seeing those.
So what other lyrics did they have to change to rhyme with "sweater"? In the original song, "apparel" rhymed with "carol" in the next line.
Yeah, I’m thinking Old Black Joe is probably right out.
Correct….they could have said warm apparel .
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Twistin’ the Night Away By Same Cooke (1962 hit)
Let me tell you about a place
Somewhere up-a New York way
Where the people are so gay
Twistin’ the night away.
I feel pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
When you’re with the Flintstones
Have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
We’ll have a gay old time.
We’ll have a gay old time!
But I feel so gay
In a melancholy way
That it might as well be spring
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let the yuletide be gay
From now on our troubles will be miles away.
Don we now our gay apparel
Fa la la la la la, la la la!
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
I recall a time when men used to doff their hats.
Hmm. I guess “Allon, Gay Bergeres” would be right out. It’s filled to the brim with it.
Anywho, I woulda guessed that’d be one song they’d put front and center and made sure you heard it right!
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