Not wanting to push the Mondegreen spinoff any more than has already been done, and not wanting to stress how long its been since I became aware of it, I’ll go ahead and say that the lyrics to Mairzy Doats, which was all the rage when I was a toddler, finally became clear when I listened to the “explanation” part of the song. And to save those of you who couldn’t care less the trouble of googling or whatever, they’re:
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. And kids’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you?
The WWII years were replete with this sort of nonsense.
The arrow in the Fed Ex logo was pointed out to me recently, but it’s not really that obvious. You can see each letter of Toyota in the Toyota logo too if you look for it.
I never made the David & Goliath -> Michelangelo’s David connection either, but I didn’t feel so bad after studying it in an Italian Renaissance class. It doesn’t look like most depictions of David (Donatello’s, for instance), and it was remarked at the time of its creation that it looked more like Apollo than David (which it does).
I always thought it was “…A kid’ll eat ivy too…” you know, like a young goat, not a child. I remember this because my sister used to ask me what the heck a kiddle was. …as well as maresydotes and doseydotes.
And I forgot to do mine, well actually the wife’s. I’m a transplant to the Kansas City area and within a few months of arriving here I visited a park in Jackson County Mo-Missouri having a lake in it called Lake Jacomo.
Years later my sweet bride who lived in Jackson County and who frequented the park her whole life asked me once if Jacomo was some kind of native American name.:smack:
Hey, y’all, I just had the heavy thought that many of the songs that include the innocent word “you” may take on an entirely different meaning if “ewe” is substituted. Not that any of these really do the trick, but maybe there are some better ones around:
Ewe’re driving me crazy
I love Ewe
Ewe’re the cream in my coffee
I say a little prayer for ewe
Ewe belong to me
I’ll see ewe in my dreams
You could be right. I started to use that version, but something about “kids’ll” as opposed to “kid’ll” was running through my mind. (I was thinking about goats in either case.)
Maybe the “official lyrics” exist online. I didn’t look before posting.
My confession: I saw JB in concert when the song first came out and didn’t know it either until he intro’d the song with a story about the unlucky soundman who was the subject of the song.
…as well as maresydotes and doseydotes.