Annoying song
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PenTheater — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 02:56 PM)
Trivia from the DVD extra, the song was public domain (so they didn't have to pay to use it) but it wasn't long enough for the scene, so the writer had to come up with more verses, and now he gets ASCAP royalties from it.
Ephemeron. -
YouthIsWasted — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 12:39 PM)
OMG what an annoying little song! Hitch must have recognized how irritating it was, so what was his point in including it? So we would cheer for the birds? I have to hit the mute button every time I watch this great film!
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jgroub — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 10:38 PM)
Jesus, that is the world's most annoying song. Like you, I just rewatched this movie (for the first time in about 40 years; I used to watch it as a kid), I knew the song was coming, so I muted it. And then the closed captions came up, and I could still hear that song even though there was no sound. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well. -
csimpkins53 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 12:14 PM)
Agreed! That song is horrible! It's the ultimate horror scene in the movie. The lyrics are ridiculous and pointless. Why would this stupid thing be sung in any school? The birds should have attacked before the first line of this crappy song was over! C'mon birds, attack! Save us from this horror!
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MsLadybird99 — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 06:51 PM)
You never sang folk songs or rounds in school?
It's a good way to get children to participate in singing and verse. Plus other things.
No, not in any school I attended. We did sing those kind of songs in summer camp, though nothing anywhere near as irritating as that one. I remember something about a hole in a bucket.. -
PenTheater — 9 years ago(November 03, 2016 10:54 AM)
I first heard "There's a hole in my bucket, Dear Liza" at a talent show around 1968, and I thought it was very cool, these two girls sang it to each other verse for verse, One dressed as Henry, one as Liza, and it was probably the first song where I realized there could be a progression of a story in a song structure. Of course in that song it comes full circle. Seriously.
Ephemeron. -
pretentious_hack — 9 years ago(November 03, 2016 09:15 AM)
We did in the 1980's when I was in elementary school. The one I remember most is an Australian nursery rhyme, "Kukaburra sits in the old gum tree.."
And "This Land is Your Land."
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PenTheater — 9 years ago(November 03, 2016 10:47 AM)
We sang Kukaburra song, I can sing it right now!
And later I always got a kick how Guthrie's socialist song This Land is Your Land made it through the 60's anti-communism era in America! Of course they changed the lyrics.
I actually think the Risseldy Rosseldy song is pretty cool. Maybe I'd think different if we had sang it.
I married my wife
In the month of June,
Risseldy, rosseldy,
Mow, mow, mow,
I carried her off
In a silver spoon,
Risseldy, Rosseldy,
Hey bambassity,
Nickety, nackety,
Retrical quality,
Willowby, wallowby,
Mow, mow, mow.
Ephemeron. -
Rudd-12 — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 03:52 PM)
Hilarious thread.
I'm really going to miss this place.
Silly anecdote. I created a sound bite of this song from the movie, which I looped into a larger loop of various haunted house sounds which I made as an atmospheric background for a Halloween party. I mixed plenty of reverb and buried it in the mix to give the quality of children in a far away place in the house. It truly was haunting, lol.