Monday, December 05, 2005

Songs in the key of tone-deafness

Consider the following song that I made up for Kevin when he asked me to sing a song about one of the cars in his zoo train set, sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques"/"Are You Sleeping?":


You have that train car

You have that train car

It is a gorilla!

It is a gorilla!

"Oogh, oogh, oogh" is what they say

"Oogh, oogh, oogh" is what they say

Drag your knuckles

Drag your knuckles


Pretty good, no? Well here's his rendition of it about an available car for his train set that he doesn't have:

You don't have that train car

You don't have that train car

It is a butterfly!

It is a butterfly!

(break)---Mama! What does a butterfly say? I respond, "I don't know, maybe it's wings sometimes sound like, "fth fth fth" when it's flying?"---(end break)

"Fth fth fth" is what they say

"Fth fth fth" is what they say

Drag your butterfly knuckles

Drag your butterfly knuckles



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