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Steve
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 In which song were these words? - 2004/04/27 20:52 I remember watching Jake on TV when I was about 6 years old and I'm rediscovering his music and lyrics that are so unique! I may be posting something ridiculous but I vaguely remember a song that had the lyric "There was a green truck, going clippety clop..." does anyone know what song this came from (if any!)
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Gordon
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 Re:In which song were these words? - 2004/04/28 00:46 I think you might be looking for "Fine Bay Pony".

You'll find the lyrics here.

http://www.sneakytrick.com/projects/jake/content/view/63/26/ Gordon



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KeithD
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 Any more Jake mondegreens? - 2004/04/28 10:51 Welcome, Steve.

I'd guess you're a fellow southerner, led slightly astray by Jake's pronunciation of "bright blue trup". I know from my son's singing efforts that children accept their nonsensical interpretations of misheard lyrics ('mondegreens') without question, and very few six-year-olds would know what a "trap" was in that context, so hearing truck for trup is pretty damn good. I think that's a quite amazing feat of memory for a six-year-old; Jake obviously made a very strong impression.

My colleague, who's a lot older than six, insisted on hearing, in On Again! On Again!, "and the choirboys bust through puberty". He thought that "bust" was particularly descriptive, and was less attracted by the cleverly varying uses Jake makes of "passed". Mondegreens are all around us!

Any more Jake mondegreens?
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Malcy
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 Re:Any more Jake mondegreens? - 2004/04/28 13:41 Guilty as charged. Although I'd seen Jake play several times and knew full well his Catholic upbringing, I'd listened to "The Ballad of Billy Kershaw" and, at the point when the RC women are descending, frenzy-less, down Billy's staircase, I'd always heard

"Many a poor, distracted Catholic, rating Billy, over-lured"

and had to wait till Edmund's site appeared to realise the correct, Catholic-friendly lyrics were

"Many a poor, distracted Catholic, rating Billy over Lourdes"

D'oh ! How did I miss that ? Excuse-me-while-I-kiss-this-guy-mungous ! Eranu !
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philreckless
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 Re:In which song were these words? - 2004/04/29 01:05 Not a funny one but I thought it was 'I also I love breasts and arms and elbows and those knees'. And what did the Bantam cock do? I've heard it performed with a word that sounds like 'tupped'! www.philmcginity.co.uk
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mcdonaldneal
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 Re:In which song were these words? - 2004/04/30 10:01 A story:
My Sister-in-Law has a house, with a garden. Not a right long time ago she had two hens, named 'June' and 'Niner' (They were a birthday present on the ninth of June). They may even have been Bantams. One died recently and the surviving hen was a bit depressed. However, a few months ago a Peacock, presumably escaped from a nearby stately home, started visiting the garden and, after the hen had overcome her initial shyness, they became friends. The Peacock clearly wanted things to go further (you know what peacocks are), and soon enough the peacock was attracting the attentions of children and visitors alike: 'Ooh mummy what is he doing?' etc etc Naturally, when Shona, my wife told me this I laughed and told her of Jake's Bantam Cock (this is all true, by the way!)
Said in-laws are due to visit in a couple of weeks (I'll get to the point eventually) and I suggested adapting the song along the predictable lines of 'and the peacock opened up a sly little eye...' I gave it a dry run for Shona and when I got to the line, 'he tupped and he tupped, as a hero tupped', Shona said something along the lines of, 'what's all that about, then?' Stunned, as I had assumed such a phrase would be common knowledge, I explained.
I will say now, I havn't checked the facts of this explanation so take it with a pinch. I went to school in Skipton (North Riding of Yorkshire) and many of my friends were farmers sons. Visiting one such friend I saw a 'sheep' with a lump of red dye strapped to it's chest, 'what's all that about, then?' He patiently explained that the young ram was a 'tup' and when they let him loose to do his 'tupping' they needed to know who (or 'ewe') he had tupped (hence the red dye).
Hope that helps (it's probably bollocks).
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