Songs Gifts

Pub Quiz: 'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

"I keep climbing this water spout. The rain washes me out. Then out comes the sun and dries up the rain. So what do I do? I climb right back up again. Talk about a rut."

"Yes, in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight, but he snores!"

Annie, the Reptile version: 'The sun will come out tomorrow! Tomorrow! You will sun yourself tomorrow!'

"Trust me, it's just a stupid song: Of course you can smile at a crocodile..."

'Boy I hate children: They sing 'Eeny Meeny Miney Mo' and then catch me by the toe...'

"Yes, 'the lion sleeps tonight', I know the tune, but it means it's had a good feed during the day, which is not really a good thing..."

'Boy! Those 911 operators sure get snooty when you call at 4 a.m. and ask them to translate the words to Frere Jacques.'

'I hate to tell you... it's not 'amber waves of gain'.'

Wordilly Durdillies - Get your ticks on Route 66

'Frank! No! It's 'POP!' 'POP Goes the Weasel!''

'Trust me, it's just a stupid song: Of course you can smile at a crocodile...'

"It's my pet mouse, Elvis. He was caught in a trap."

" I think we have a deal. He goes walking down the street with you as long as you refrain from singing do wah diddy, diddy dum diddy do."

"Hey! John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!"

Goodness gracious...

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

'Row, row, row your goat...'

Vowels: E-I-E-I-O. And sometimes 'Y'.

'Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream...'

Sinead O'Connor.

'Henrietta is so self-confident.'

"First you make a left, then you make a right, then you turn around and turn around with all your might. You put your left foot out and then you bring it back, and that's what I call ballin' the jack."

We've done "here on oink," and we've done "there an oink," but we've never done "everywhere an oink-oink."

Today, this humble feature attempts to answer one of the great quandaries of modern times. Is it Louie Louie, oh baby, my hair gotta grow? Wrong! What are the lyrics to the Kingsman's Louie Louie?* *Must be gleaned by listening. No peeking on the internet!

I told her there ain't now mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough to keep me from her. But there is a stalking law strict enough, it turns out

"You won't believe it. I have that stupid song stuck in my head again."

"Before I go in, just what did Billy Joe McCaluster throw off the Talihatchie bridge?"

"I like a Gershwin tune. How about you?"

"Yes, baby---it IS cold outside."

Shepherd and eurydice

They hated me.

Louis Armstrong

A Symphony of Penguins

'Houston, I'm prepared to land...'