# Relatively Unknown Later Verses to Well-Known Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598 "2007-07-29T17:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/61 "2007-09-18T22:37:46Z")
[Quote=Helena] Then up Jack got And home did trot As fast as he could caper Went to bed And wrapped his head In vinegar and brown paper (Jack and Jill) [/Quote] [QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] That verse was actually included in my book of nursery rhymes. I remember thinking - how the hell is vinegar supposed to help his headache? [/QUOTE] Vinegar and brown paper is recommended [in the third paragraph of this page](http://www.vinegarbook.co.uk/Fight_germs_and_combat_colds_with_vinegar.shtml) as a cold remedy. Perhaps some mothers of Jack and Jill’s “era” saw such a poultice as a cure-all. There’s also a third verse to the rhyme: _Jill came in, and she did grin To see a mustard plaster Mother, vexed, did whip her next_ For causing Jack’s disaster\* - A variant of this line is _Old Dame Dob did smack her knob_. No, I don’t know how the vinegar-paper combination was replaced by a mustard plaster. Perhaps we’ve stumbled upon one of the first continuity errors. ---
**Author:** ![Slander\_Q.Libel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Slander\_Q.Libel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slander_Q.Libel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/62 "2007-09-19T00:17:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > And the next day … > > Little Gooey Fru Fru > Hopping through the forest > Picking up the field mice > And bopping them on the head > > The good fairy came down, and she said: > “I give up!” > \*\* Nowadays (at least out here in the good ol’ sunny Peoples’ Republic of California, anyway), alot of schools are changing “bopping” to “kissing”, I reckon so as not to traumatize them… ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/63 "2007-09-19T01:02:48Z")
[QUOTE=hdagent] I don’t get those lyrics. They don’t words don’t seem to fit into the theme music. A friend and I came up with these lyrics - Better than Gene’s afaic because you can sing it along with the opening theme. [/QUOTE] Gene’s lyrics call for breaking the last note of the first two lines in half. They are not the most shining examples of lyrics ever written, and they were added long after the original tune was composed. But presumably Gene’s estate is still collecting half of Alexander Courage’s royalties … ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/64 "2007-09-19T01:50:33Z")
Didn’t Uhura sing part of this in an early episode? Or is my memory finally kaput? ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/65 "2007-09-19T02:45:14Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] This may be super-easy, but… There is just one moon and one golden sun And a smile means friendship for everyone… It’s a small world. (Is this verse played on the actual Disney ride? If so, it’s an easy question…) [/QUOTE] Though the mountains divide and the oceans are wide it’s a small world after all. It is indeed played on the ride. [QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] One bright sunny morning In the shadow of the steeple By the relief office I seen my people [/QUOTE] You forgot the next part, the best part of that verse: As they stood hungry I stood there wondering If this land was made for you and me I don’t know if that song actually has a standard set of lyrics. [These](http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Land.htm) [listings](http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/thisl1.html) [are](http://www.geocities.com/nashville/3448/thisl2.html) [all](http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/this-land.shtml) [different](http://thunder.prohosting.com/~wguthrie/0this_land.html). ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/66 "2007-09-19T11:05:38Z")
Aw, I thought Little Bunny Foo Foo turning into a GOOOooooo!! was a setup for the following lame joke: And the moral is: HARE today, GOOOOoooo tomorrow!! (Which I didn’t get until many years later) ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/67 "2007-09-19T11:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] I was under the impression this verse had come about because on ‘The Dukes of Hazard’ (the song was the theme music for it), during the opening credits, all that was shown of the singer was his hands strumming the guitar. [/QUOTE] This is the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/68 "2007-09-21T01:54:41Z")
The _All in the Family_ opening theme, “Those Were the Days”, includes lyrics which are [not sung during the opening credits.](http://www.mortystv.com/aitf_faq.shtml) The linked page also includes lyrics to the closing theme, “Remembering You”, which is only heard as an instrumental on the program. There are a couple of alternate sets of lyrics to the [_Bonanza_ theme.](http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/lyrics.html) ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/69 "2007-09-21T10:20:20Z")
Garth Brooks’ “Friends In Low Places” has a few alternate verses. > **[Friends in Low Places |](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_In_Low_Places#The_.22third_verse.22)** > > The original version of "Friends in Low Places" has two verses. In 1991, Brooks added a "third verse" to the song in live performances. His spiel leading to the new verse claimed that he thought the song's original verse did not reflect how he would really act in that situation. It is basically a rewrite of the second verse, with only the last few lines changed, culminating in "Just wait 'til I finish this glass / Then sweet little lady, I'll head back to the bar / And you can kiss my ass". VCNJ~ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598.md?page=3)