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Viewing Lyrics for Clementine:
| | | Artist: | Tom Lehrer |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Clementine | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 2 | | | | Lyrics: | I should like to consider the folk song, and expand briefly on a theory I have held for some time,
to the effect that the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the
people. If professional songwriters had written them instead, things might have turned out
considerably differently. For example, consider the old favorite, with which, I'm sure, you're all
familiar, ";Clementine";, you know:
In a cavern, in a canyon,
dadada dadadada...
A song with no recognizable merit whatsoever, and imagine what might have happened if, for
example, Cole Porter had tried writing this song. The first verse might have come out like this:
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excava-ha-ha-hating for a mine,
Far away from the
boom-boom-boom of the city
She was so pretty, what a pity, Clementine.
Oh Clementine,
can't you tell from the howls of me
This love of mine calls to you from the bowels of
me.
Are you discerning the returning
Of this churning, burning, yearning for you-oo-oo...
ah-ah...
Well, supposing at this point that Mozart (or one of that crowd) had tried writing a
verse, the next one might have come out as a baritone aria from an Italian opera, somewhat along
these lines:
Era legera e come un fairy
E suo shoes numero nine,
Herring
bo-ho-ho-hoxes senza to-ho-ho-hopses,
Sandalae per Clementina si, per Clementina si,
Per
Clementina sandalae, per Clementina sandalae, per Clementine.
Clehementina, Clehementina,
Clehe-he-mentina...
Herring boxes senza topses sandalae per Clementina,
Herring boxes
senza topses sandalae per Clementina,
Che sciagura Clementina, che sciagura Clementina, cara
Clementina, cara
Clementina-na-na-na-na-na-na-na!
Supposing at this rather dramatic
juncture in the narrative, one of our modern ";cool sch | | | |
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