Greg Charles,
She doesn’t change him in to a “Goo,” she changes him into a “duck.”
Little Ducky Foo Foo
Waddling through the forest
Scooping up the field mice
And peckin’ 'em on the head.
Down came the good fairy,
and she said,
“This song is over.”
I can only wonder why I know the extra verses to the Cheers theme song.
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Yes, let’s put a little reminder of Christ’s violent death into this lovely song celebrating His birth! I’ve only heard this verse sung once, and that was at a private Catholic school holiday mass. It fit right in with the ambient guilt quotient, IMHO.
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Actually, I don’t remember ever skipping this verse, and I’ve attended an awful lot of churches over the years. Same for you, gigi – and that verse is often sung as a bass solo (which king it’s supposed to be escapes my memory; Balthazar, perhaps?) FriarTed, BTW, is completely right. Christmas is not a holiday for its own sake; it is merely the start of a history whose purpose is death – or life, but you get the point. Christ’s birth is only important in light of his death and resurrection.
ETA: it seems par for course for national anthems to have additional, largely unsung verses. O Canada! is a good example.
[QUOTE=Eonwe]
A verse not recorded on the studio take of this song is:
Now the years are rolling by me, they are rocking even me,
I am older than I once was, and younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual.
No it isn’t strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same,
After changes we are more or less the same.
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I always heard it as “they are running evenly” but I never listened very closely.
I’ve heard there are something like 15 verses to Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” I’ve only heard the Shrek version (5 verses) and two more verses:
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light in every word
It doesn’t matter which you’ve heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
and
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but “Hallelujah”
I’ve always been very curious as to the other alleged eight.
[QUOTE=whole bean]
I’m just a good ol’ boy
You know my momma loves me
but she can’t understand
why they’re showing my hands
and not my face on tv
Good Ol’ Boys (theme from the Dukes of Hazzard), by Wayon Jennings
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I have the full version of the song, but have never figured out what in the heck that means. Anybody know?
[QUOTE=T_SQUARE]
I have the full version of the song, but have never figured out what in the heck that means. Anybody know?
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The only time he makes TV is when he’s doing the “perp walk” with his hands handcuffed. People typically put their hands up to obscure their face during such an event.
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The only time he makes TV is when he’s doing the “perp walk” with his hands handcuffed. People typically put their hands up to obscure their face during such an event.
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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=don’t ask]
The oft forgotten final verse of:
Nanananana BATMAN!!
Nanananana BATMAN!!
Nanananana BATMAN!!
BATMAN!!BATMAN!!BATMAN!!
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Which song is this?
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Actually, I don’t remember ever skipping this verse, and I’ve attended an awful lot of churches over the years. Same for you, gigi – and that verse is often sung as a bass solo (which king it’s supposed to be escapes my memory; Balthazar, perhaps?) FriarTed, BTW, is completely right. Christmas is not a holiday for its own sake; it is merely the start of a history whose purpose is death – or life, but you get the point. Christ’s birth is only important in light of his death and resurrection.
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I guess I was thinking more of commercial recordings and the children’s masses of my youth. And I haven’t been to a Christmas mass in English in years. Of course, you’re right, the death is what makes the birth significant.
[QUOTE=The Punkyova]
Greg Charles,
She doesn’t change him in to a “Goo,” she changes him into a “duck.”
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A duck? How is that even a threat? According to Wikipedia, it’s “goon” not “goo”, but I still prefer the way I heard it (or believed I heard it). It’s all the more ominous for being nonsensical. Wikipedia also mentions the final, moral-subverting verse.
[QUOTE=zamboniracer]
The verses to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” are all completely unknown. All anybody knows is the chorus. Wikipedia cite
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Thanks for that link…I actually had the opportunity to make a minor edit to that page. 
[QUOTE=Greg Charles]
A duck? How is that even a threat? According to Wikipedia, it’s “goon” not “goo”, but I still prefer the way I heard it (or believed I heard it). It’s all the more ominous for being nonsensical. Wikipedia also mentions the final, moral-subverting verse.
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Actually, in my childhood, it was a goon, complete with waving fingers and “blech!” noises. The duck is what my daughter’s teacher said, and, I am informed on a daily basis, the teacher knows and I don’t.
My observation is that everyone remembers all the verses, with Bunny FooFoo bouncing along and bopping and all, and counts down from three to one, and then can’t remember what happens at the end. I suspect the whole “duck” variation is intended to have an ending that someone can remember.
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=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)
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That verse was actually included in my book of nursery rhymes. I remember thinking - how the hell is vinegar supposed to help his headache?
I have wondered that myself.
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How about a tune that most people would recognize, but very few people know that it even has words.
I give you the Star Trek theme (TOS):
Beyond the rim of the starlight,
my love is wandring in star flight.
I know he’ll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A star woman teaches.
I know his journey ends never.
His Star Trek will go on forever.
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea,
Remember,
Remember me.
These lyrics were written by Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, allegedly for the sole purpose of getting royalties every time the theme song was performed. AFAIK it has never been recorded or publicly performed with the lyrics.
ETA: I know we’re not supposed to post complete lyrics, but this one is so short I couldn’t really excerpt it in any meaningful fashion.
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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.
Star Trek, its a trip into space
On Star Trek, many dangers they’ll face
And so, the five year journey goes on,
this is our
Star fuxxxxg Trek!
“The Yellow Rose of Texas” is a song that’s undergone a lot of editing and changing over the years. There’s basically two sets of verses.
One is about the soldier’s loss of the “rose”, and sings She’s the sweetest rose of color, this soldier ever knew. This version is older, and quite obviously refers to the girl as being of mixed race, or black. It ends with a verse about Confederate generals, and is the version sung in Ken Burn’s “Music of the Civil War” Link #1
One refers to the “rose” as* She’s the sweetest little rosebud this soldier ever knew*, and goes on to talk about the old days and how the singer hopes they’ll get together again. Link #2
The third link gives what seems to be a very good history of the poem that became to a song, and quotes some yet more changed lyrics. It seems it wasn’t originally a “soldier” singing, but a “darky”
[QUOTE=The Punkyova]
She doesn’t change him in to a “Goo,” she changes him into a “duck.”
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Why a duck?
Somebody hadda say it . . . .
Hope this isn’t too dead to revive-
The last verse hardly anybody knows of “Amazing Grace” because the Conspiracy 
replaced it with “When we’ve been there ten thousand years…”
The Earth will soon dissolve like snow
The Sun forbear to shine
But God who called me here below
Will be forever mine.
Most people know
Like a bird on the wire,
Lke a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Not many know the rest of it or who wrote it (Leonard Cohen)