Relatively Unknown Later Verses to Well-Known Songs

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[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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[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?
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Vinegar and brown paper is recommended in the third paragraph of this page 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.

    Baker: I’d guess the “Yellow Rose” is supposed to be a mulatto (or “mulatta”, if you prefer the feminine version of the admittedly archaic term). The phrase “high yellow” (as well as such variants as high yeller and high yaller) was frequently used to refer to such people of mixed race, particularly the ones who could at least try to “pass for white”.

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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…

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[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.
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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 …

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Didn’t Uhura sing part of this in an early episode? Or is my memory finally kaput?

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[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…)

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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
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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 listings are all different.

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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)

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[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.
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This is the correct answer.

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The All in the Family opening theme, “Those Were the Days”, includes lyrics which are not sung during the opening credits. 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.

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Garth Brooks’ “Friends In Low Places” has a few alternate verses.

VCNJ~