Writer's Block: Know by Heart

[erastes]

[Error: unknown template qotd]Well this is embarrassing.

(I'm only posting these Writer's Block things coz I'm still snuffly...)

"Just a perfect day... Drinks and gravy in the park, then later when it gets dark, we'd go home."

I thought it was odd, but then, Americans ARE odd. Hell, they have biscuits with gravy, so perhaps it was something like that. I only found out what it really said about three years ago. I still sing my version.

I think the best one (not my version, but a version I saw on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" was Phil Jupitus' version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

"With the lights down, it's Las Vegas
Here we are now entertainers
I keep two pigs, in containers,
Here we are now, entertainers."

You'll never sing the right version again.

Talking of singing - the best lyrics to The Trumpet Voluntary are: (learn 'em because you'll love to sing them when you know them.)

"Moses supposes his toeses are Roses,
But Moses supposes Erroneously,
Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be!"  AH. It's not the trumpet voluntary. What is it? ETA: Mozart: Horn Concert #4, K495 -- Mvt 3 hurrah!!!!

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I know "Moses Supposes" but what's the Trumpet Voluntary? I've never heard of that.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bah - it's not the Trumpet Voluntary (famous classical tune, by Purcell) I can't find it, now I need it. You'd know it if you heard it, the lyrics to Moses fit it exactly.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it's called but it's the one Flanders and Swann did lyrics for. 'I once had a whim and I had to obey it, to buy a French Horn in a second hand shop...'

[erastes.livejournal.com]

FOUND IT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJwTb0anfQ

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's it! http://www.hornplanet.com/hornpage/museum/articles/ill_wind.html

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was in the car with my best friend and her mother and a song came on the radio so I sang along with it, "I blow bubbles when you are not here." There was silence then they both burst out laughing. Turns out the line was, "My world crumbles when you are not here."

XD

I always mishear lyrics!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I prefer yours!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

A lady I worked with thought one of Take That's songes included the line 'Every day I shine his face' *snort*

When I was younger *cough* my friends and I would deliberately make up our own lines to various Gary Numan songs (yes, not to hard, I hear you say!) LOL ie,

'We are the young things fed on cabbage and pies'
and
'Tell me I'm a schizophrenic' (There were actually no words to that bit of Tubeway Army synth tinkling but we added our own)

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

And here I'd pegged you for "Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" (kiss the sky)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Moses Supposes is from Singing in the Rain

found it!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, that version is - but the classical piece it fits too is Mozart's French Horn Concerto no 3 no 495 movement III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJwTb0anfQ

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

I used to wonder what The Weather Girls found so fascinating about Israeli Men...

[mongrelheart.livejournal.com]

I keep two pigs, in containers,

Dude, i almost just spit coffee all over my laptop :-D

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

"Secret Asian Man..."

There are three books out by Gavin Edwards, compilations of this sort of thing: "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy," "He's got the whole world in his pants" and a third I can't remember. Great tunes like "People Love Bagels" (Viva Las Vegas) and "Pay for that Chrysler" (Paperback Writer.) Or Rex Harrison crooning, "I've thrown a custard in her face..."

Some of the mistakes make more sense than the original lyrics.