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The Kingsman TrioSong Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "Bad Man's Blunder" | Opening lines are "Well, early one evening I was strollin' around. / I was feelin' kinda mean -- I shot a deputy down." That act of shooting a deputy down is further referred to at least two more times in the lyrics, making "I shot a deputy down" probably the best know lyrics in the song. The song could quite possibly be better known by that than by the actual title, which is nowhere found in the lyrics. - Regina Olsen |
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Where Did All The Talent Go?" | "Where Have All The Flowers Gone? " | MOR |
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | |
| "What's Your Name?," Lynyrd Skynyrd | "Ann," The Kingston Trio | |
| "I Shot The Sheriff," Eric Clapton | "Bad Man's Blunder," The Kingston Trio | |
| "Rock And Roll Band," Boston | "Jesse James," The Kingston Trio | |
| "Juicy Fruit," Mtume | "Raspberries, Strawberries," The Kingston Trio | |
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Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Across The Wide Missouri" | "At Loss, The Child, Miss Suri" | Airfarcewon |
| "Tom Dooley" | "What Really Sank The Big Fitz?" | Old Man Ribber |
| "Charlie on the MTA" | "Charlie Just Fell Off the Train" | John A. Barry |
| "M.T.A." | "P.T.A." | Old Man Ribber |
| "Charlie on the MTA" | "Charlie's Got the DNA" | John A. Barry |
| "Charlie on the MTA" | "Carly’s Gone—Been Sent Away" | John A. Barry |
| "Tom Dooley" | "Suspended Sentence" | Patrick McWilliams |
| "MTA" | "JFK" | MadTom |
| "(Hang Down Your Head) Tom Dooley" | "(Hang Down Your Head) Bart Stupak" | Barry J. Mitchel |
| "The MTA Protest Song" | "The DNA Protest Song" | Jeff |
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Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| "MTA" | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MTA) | Iludium Phosdex |
| Georgia Stockade | Columbus, GA Chamber of Commerce or Visitor Bureau | Bridget Andrews |
| The MTA Song | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | felipe |
| Tom Dooley | Suicide Prevention Line | goggomobil |
| MTA | The subway | David |
| There are additional on hold music ideas available. | ||
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Major Tom Peter Schilling | Tom Dooley The Kingston Trio | Major Tom Dooley | Peter Paul Mounds |
| You're Not Drinking Enough Don Henley | Scotch And Soda The Kingston Trio | You're Not Drinking Enough Scotch And Soda | Britney Spears into pruning hooks |
| Where's Captain Kirk? Spizzenergi | Tijuana Jail The Kingston Trio | Where's Captain Kirk? In the Tijuana Jail! | crazydon |
| Love Is Here And Now You're Gone Diana Ross and The Supremes | Where Have All The Flowers Gone? The Kingston Trio | Love Is Here And Now Where Have All The Flowers Gone? | Eileen McKenzie |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
"Mary Mild"
Misheard Lyrics: If you are Lord's and Ladies' sons and you will not play at ball.
I'll build you a bridge of the beams of the sun to play upon a song. Original Lyrics: If you are Lord's and Ladies' sons and you will not play at ball.
I'll build you a bridge of the beams of the sun to play upon us all. | "Desert Pete"
Misheard Lyrics: Under that rock you'll find some water; I left it in a bidder's jar.
Original Lyrics: Under that rock you'll find some water; I left it in a bitters jar.
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"Desert Pete"
Misheard Lyrics: Then I saw a note stuck in a bacon powder can.
Original Lyrics: Then I saw a note stuck in a bakin' powder can.
| "Tom Dooley"
Misheard Lyrics: Hang down your head poor Julie
Original Lyrics: Hang down your head Tom Dooley
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"Mary Mild"
Misheard Lyrics: If you are Lord's and Ladies' sons and you will not play at ball.
I'll build you a bridge of the beams of the sun to play upon a song. Original Lyrics: If you are Lord's and Ladies' sons and you will not play at ball.
I'll build you a bridge of the beams of the sun to play upon us all. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Donna Rand Blitzen For years since first hearing this, I assumed for sure that this couplet ended in "play upon a song". That, I thought, just added quaint mystery to this tale of enchantment. Then this year a friend suggested to me that, because of the rhyme scheme, it might say something different like, "play upon us all". When I finally got around to checking a lyrics site, I found that my friend made a good guess! [So no further quaint enchantment is added to the bridge of the beams of the sun!] |
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"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
The Repetitive Lyrics: In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight In the jungle, the mighty jungle The lion sleeps tonight Why They're Repetitive: And sleeps ... and sleeps ... and sleeps ... This song appears to be a lullaby ... oh well it sure works!!!!
Submitted by: Hilde Patton
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"Molly Dee"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: My true love's in Memphis town --
Pretty little thing named "Sally Brown". Travels around on a riverboat, Shares her room with a billy goat. Why They're Nonsensical: Would riverboat travelers ever share their rooms with goats? Well, I'VE never heard of any such thing! I could well surmise that in the last line quoted above they were just saying anything for a rhyme.
Submitted by: Karen Smith
| "CooCoo-U"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: It is quite well known you've become a clone
Why They're Nonsensical: A person can't change into a clone of himself or herself.
Submitted by: Candy Welty
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"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: One night she caught King Henry, he was in the canteen bar.
Said he, 'Are you Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn , or Cath'rine Parr? How the sweet san fairy Ann, do I know who you are With your head tucked underneath your arm?' Why They're Inappropriate: Historic accuracy is often absent from this otherwise charming little ditty about Anne Boleyn's ghost haunting the Tower Of London. These closing lines are perhaps the bext example of that lack of historic accuracy. Besides Anne Boleyn {Henry's second wife), the only other wife that he had behaeded was his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. So she was the only other one who would make much sense to make sense in the context of these final lines, where Henry wonders which one of his wifes is haunting him with her head tucked underneath her arm. Jane Seymour was his thrid wife, who died in childbirth, giving Henry his only male heir. By all accounts, Henry was genuinely mournful over her passing. So her reference in this context hardly fits. But even less fitting is the reference to Catherine Paar. She was Henry's sixth and last wife, who outlived him.
Submitted by: Kirsten Abercrombie
| "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: The sentries think that it's a football that she carries in
And when they've had a few, they shout, 'Is Army going to win?' They think that it's Red Grange instead of poor old Ann Boleyn With her head tucked underneath her arm. Why They're Inappropriate: This delightful little whimsical ditty, about Anne Boleyn's ghost haunting the Tower of London, while Henry VIII was still King, is long on charm but short on historical accuracy. Even if some kind of 'poetic license' allows us to overlook the anachronism of members of the court of King Henry VIII having knowledge of American football, the reference to Army is still rather out of place. Red Grange played for the University of Illinois and for the Chicago Bears, never for Army.
Submitted by: Kirsten Abercrombie
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"Pastures Of Plenty"
The Dated Lyrics: Every state in the union this migrant has been.
Why They're Dated: Woody Guthrie originally wrote this song in 1941, when there were 48 states. Then Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959. Then the Kingston Trio covered the song in their 1961 album "Goin' Places". Sung in 1961 it would imply that the states the migrant has been to would include Alaska and Hawaii, even though that is in no way implied by the song as Guthrie originally wrote it.
Submitted by: Regina Haniger
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"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm"
The Lyrics: One night she caught King Henry,
he was in the canteen bar Said he, 'Are you Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn , or Cath'rine Parr? How the sweet san fairy Ann, do I know who you are With your head tucked underneath your arm?' Who They Mention: King Henry VIII
Submitted by: Regina Olsen
| "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm"
The Lyrics: One night she caught King Henry,
he was in the canteen bar Said he, 'Are you Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn , or Cath'rine Parr? How the sweet san fairy Ann, do I know who you are With your head tucked underneath your arm?' Who They Mention: Jane Seymour (wife of King Henry VIII, not to be confused with modern actress with same name)
Submitted by: Regina Olsen
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"Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"
Opening Lines: Last night I had the strangest dream I never dreamed before. I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.
Comments: Submitted by: Candy Welty
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"Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"
The Lyrics: where have all the flowers gone? long time passes where have all the flowers gone? long time ago when will they ever learn?
Why: this song is frightening it sounds like a song about the dropping of the atomic bomb
Submitted by: art
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"Allentown Jail"
The Lyrics: They locked up her darlin' in Allentown Jail
And no one has come to put up his bail Why: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Submitted by: Candy Welty
| "Oh Shenandoah"
The Lyrics: Away, I'm bound away
'Cross the wide Missouri. Why: In this song, a trader wants to take the daughter of an Indian chief west across the Missouri River.
Submitted by: Kathy
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"Raspberries, Strawberries"
The Lyrics: Ah! les fraises et les framboises et les bon vins que nous avons bus.
Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Raspberries, strawberries, the good wines we brew. Here's to the girls of the countryside, the ones we drink unto. Why: "Ah! les fraises et les framboises et les bon vins que nous avons bus." is French and means "Oh, the strawberries and the raspberries, and the good wines that we have drunk."
Submitted by: Barry Amassa Tate
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"The Merry Minuet"
The Lyrics: But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud,
For man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud. And we know for certain that some lovely day, Someone will set the spark off... And we will all be blown away! Why: This bitterly satirical song first talks of human enmities, as well as natural disasters. Then in this climactic verse it speaks of the threat of nuclear annihilation. Throughout the song, it is done with ap upbeat and ostensibly celebratory tune and spirit, as the word "merry" in the title implies. Incidentally, some of the most poignant and / or ironic lines in this song, including "And we will all be blown away", were sung by Kingston Trio member Nick Reynolds, who died this month (October, 2008). RIP.
Submitted by: Regina Haniger
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