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[xiphias]

Remember, folks: "The Alphabet Song", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Baa Baa Black Sheep", and Louis Armstrong's hit "It's a Wonderful World" are all the same tune.

I see skies of blue, red roses too,
H I J K what you are.
One for my master, one for my dame,
W diamond in the Z,
I see friends shaking hands, saying 'how do you do',
next time wonder three bags full.

Comments

Don't forget the original

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman dates back to 1761.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I love that!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Ian, you scare me sometimes. One of these years, I'd really like to meet you in person.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

You are an evil, evil man for posting that. Now I can't get the mix out of my head!! Where's the Braino and mental floss??

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

*boggles*

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

My daughter hates it when I sing that song and change the words around. Ok, she hates it when I sing anyways (always changing word), though she does approve of the Jingle Bells, Batman Smells song.

I can't wait until I show her Emily Dickenson!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

The Emily Dickinson thing is overblown. Only two of her poems actually fit to "Yellow Rose", and they don't even remotely fit if you go by her original punctuation (you know, the stuff her editors took out).

The problem is that the two poems are the only two poems most people know.

Okay, looking through some of her other work, I can see how, if you squint, you can squeeze some of the other works into that meter, if you totally ignore her manuscript punctuation. But it's not as pervasive as people say.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," however, can be sung to the Gilligan's Island theme song.

[goljerp]

I recently learned that Frost's "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" can be sung to... well, I guess I shouldn't reveal all my secrets...