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Song Titles Not Used as Lyrics:
Song Name | Comments & Submitter Name |
| "The Little Drummer Boy" | " 'Come', they told me, pah-rum-pum-pum-pum" is the opening line. But the song is well known by its title, despite it being a phrase not found in the lyrics, so the song is not likely to be called by any phrase from the lyrics as an "alternate title". Since the song is narrated in the first person by the title character, but the title refers to him in the third person, one would hardly expect the title phrase to occur in the lyrics, unless he were to say in the lyrics somewhere, "And so they call me 'the little drummer boy'," for example. But no such reference occurs in the lyrics. - Ava Murphy |
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" | "Nullify Kyoto With Some Clear Cut Forestry" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "I'm in the Mood for Love" | "I Hear Some Moos for Lunch" | John A. Barry |
| "Besame Mucho" | "Bossie's My Moo Foe" | John A. Barry |
| "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" | "Santa Claus Is Copping A Feel" | Terry Allan Hall |
| "It Don't Mean A Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" | "It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got Cha-Ching)" | Lionel Mertens |
| "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" | "I've Got A Sore Throat And Swollen Glands" | Sister Amnesia |
| "12 Days of Christmas" | "6 Days of New Year" | Garrison Foster |
| "Joy To The World" | "Joy To The Bronx" | Jessy Otto |
| "Streets of Laredo" | "The High Street of Maldon" | Peter Fox |
| "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" | "My Dipstick Ain't Slick and Glist'nin'" | John A. Barry |
There are additional Various song parodies available. | ||
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| You're A Mean One Mr Grinch Jim Carrey | Cruella De Vil Various | (You're A Mean One) Ms Grinchella De Vil The Grinch + Cruella De Vil. | GreenLeaf |
| We Will Follow The Sun Hoku | Man Of La Mancha Various | We Will Follow The Man Of La Mancha Who wouldn't? | Paris Hilton Is On Fire |
Inappropriate Lyrics:
"Winter Wonderland"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: Gone away is the bluebird.
Here to stay is a new bird Who sings a love song as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland. Why They're Inappropriate: Here, in a song of very enduring popularity, is a particularly ludicrous example of fill-in lyrics, used desperately to make a rhyme -- "Here to stay is a new bird"?? What could they be thinking of, except what could be rhymed with "bluebird"? This must be high on any list of pitifully forced rhymes in highly popular songs. Incidentally, I've often assumed that this song is of U.S. origin, as it is certainly popular there. An origin in North America at least would tend to be pointed to because that is where bluebirds occur. There are three species of bluebirds situated so that all across the U.S. and southern Canada one would be where at least one of those species is found during at least some part of the year. This song might give the impression that they depart for the winter. While that is true for some northern parts of the U.S. and virtaully all parts of Canada where bluebirds occur, probably the majority of the area of the U.S. is within the winter or year-round range of at least one bluebird species. That would probably surprise many, in light of the view that this song seems to take!
Submitted by: Adrienne Ramseur
| "Silver Bells"
The Inappropriate Lyrics: Strings of street lights, even stop lights blink a bright red and green
Why They're Inappropriate: Well, they do that everyday of the year. Not just because it's Christmas.
Submitted by: Timothy
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Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
Opening Lines: I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus, Underneath the mistletoe last night.
Comments: Submitted by: Ava Murphy
| "I'll Be Home For Christmas"
Opening Lines: I'll be home for Christmas. You can plan on me.
Comments: Submitted by: Ava Murphy
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| There are additional Various spelling lyrics available. | |
Song Title Anagrams:
"Windward Noel Tern" originally "Winter Wonderland"
Submitted by: Mark Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
"Shyest Front Woman" originally "Frosty The Snowman"
Submitted by: Julia Farda
Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics:
"I'll Be Home For Christmas"
The Lyrics: Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light beams. I'll be home for Christmas, . If only in my dreams. Why: I've had more than on friend tell me that they were once captivated by this as one of the loveliest Christmas songs they'd ever heard, but then, on listening closely to the lyrics, noticed the last line quoted above, which transformed it into one of the saddest Christmas songs they'd ever heard. It was first made popular by Bing Crosby, but since then so many have jumped on the bandwagon of recording it that a list of who hasn't recorded it might be shorter than a list of who has, For that reason I cited the performer as "Various". For a long time I suspected the song must have started as a showtune, like "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", and that like that song, it fit into a not-so-happy portion of some movie perhaps, where somebody's prospects of actually getting home for Christmas were bleak. But I never could determine a movie of its origin. Now, thanks to being able to look up the song on WIkipedia, I've found that it was always a freestanding song, not a showtune, from when Crosby first made it famous. Its context was not any bleak middle portion of any movie, but the depths of the second World War, when prospects of getting home for Christmas were bleak indeed for many military personnel.
Submitted by: Mercedes Morgan
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