Deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la la la, la la la la!

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:08 pm

I was just talking to a friend here at work and we got on the topic of those adolesent songs set to Christmas tunes and how his kids picked them up at school. We began to wonder about their origins, as we were both very familiar with identical versions as kids, despite growing up at oposite ends of the country.

Anyone know?

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:22 pm

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you every saw it
You would even say it glowed
like a lightbulb
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
like dumb bo
They never let poor Rudolph
Play in any reindeer games
like monopoly

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:25 pm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:30 pm

I was thinking more along the lines of the satire that is made of some songs, for instance...

Deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la (etc.)
Light a match and watch it gleam, fa la la (etc).
Watch the school burn down to ashes, fa la la (etc.)
Aren't you glad I play with matches, fa la la (etc.)

Or

Joy to the world, the school burned down...etc.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:33 pm

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg,
Batmobile lost its wheel, and the Joker got away.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:38 pm

"We three drunks from Sloppy Joe's bar,
Drinkin beer and driving a car;
Oh, so merry, oh so hairy...
lost the wheel, again...."

Arrgh.

Mike Henry · Post by **Mike Henry** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:53 pm

we three kings of orient are
tried to smoke a white owl cigar
it was loaded
it exploded
that was the end of
we three kings of orient are

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:04 pm

Mike Henry wrote:we three kings of orient are
tried to smoke a white owl cigar
it was loaded
it exploded
that was the end of
we three kings of orient are

I've heared one like that, with the last lines being

It was loaded and exploaded
sending his pieces far!

Brewster · Post by **Brewster** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:05 pm

In church on Sunday, we sang the carol "The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came". It has the refrain of "most highly favored lady" which gets updated to "most highly flavored gravy"....

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:33 pm

Hark the hair-lipped angels sing
Moof a-moof a-moof
A-moof moof moof

djm

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:20 pm

While shepards washed their socks by night
All seated around the tub
The angel of the Lord came down
And said "Scrub, Scrub, Scrub"

MarkB

Band Nerd · Post by **Band Nerd** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:25 pm

[quote="missy"]All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
[i]like dumb bo[/i][/quote]

We always said "like pinnochio" instead of "like dumbo."

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:39 pm

Well, I remember this one from MAD magazine, at the height of the
women's lib era:

Buzz off ye lousy gentlemen,
Our Christmas you won't mar.
Without the mother giving birth,
You'd have no Superstar.
She did it all without your help
In Bethlehem back then,
Which all proves we don't need you lousy men,
Chauvinist men,
Which all proves that we don't need you lousy men.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:49 pm

BNerd wrote:We always said "like pinnochio" instead of "like dumbo."

Can we get an official ruling please? Instant replay?

djm

Random notes · Post by **Random notes** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:08 pm

I still remember Pogo's classic:

Deck the halls with Boston Charlie
Walla Walla Wash
and Kalamazoo
Nora's freezin' on the trolley
Swaller dollar cauliflower
Alley garoo

We used to sing:

Jingle bells
Shotgun shells
BB's all the way

and the rest has faded away dimly into the mists of time, like so much that ... um, I mean ...

What was the question?

Roger