5090 by FAWM: "Thoughtless and Spiteful "

Thoughtless and Spiteful

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Triggered by a discussion with English folkies about how they hate parodies, and the joke response lines that grow around often sung ballads.

As you may have guessed, I love writing and listening to parodies.

Lyrics

How thoughtless and spiteful to mess with a song
When you alter the story, and make the words wrong
The purist is rankled in every degree,
When you sing the words erroneous by way of parody

As a soldier and his true love their pleasure did take
Said the true love to the solider I must you forsake
For you’ve ruined my song, you’re a terrible bore
I will go and please my fancy and love you no more

Three heavy sighs he gave, Oh Nancy my dear
Are you going to leave me in sorrow and despair
Are you going to leave me in sorrow to complain
While you sing the same old ballads, again and again

Fare well my dear charmer if you’ll no longer stay
For my penchant for humour ain’t going away
I'm going to the folk club with my Les Barker book
And I’ll not return love till the rafters I’ve shook

Then her fine middle finger she instantly drew
Take this dearest Jemmy and cursed be you
And while they were parting, in her mind words did flow,
And the sharks they played melodeons, wherever she’d go.

Comments

@danielkelly 1w

Excellent new verse @gmcgath, the sharks line is the parody/misheard line that people sing over the original, “larks they sang melodious”

@gmcgath 1w

The only fair response is another verse:

Then Jemmy laughed loud, to the circle he went
And sang many songs where the lyrics he bent.
A fair maiden joined him to sing a duet,
And he thought no more of Nancy and her narrow mindset.

The line about sharks and melodeons puzzles me, though. Am I missing a reference?

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