Advent music

[charlie_cochrane]

I mentioned yesterday that my dad had alternative lyrics for many things. "Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the feast of Stephen, turned his knickers inside out, cos his bum was freezing." We have other songs we sing slightly differently, because of childhood mishearings. My girls were convinced that in this classic, the people pretended the snowman was "Parsley Brown".

This version is perfect.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHE0Jo82_34&w=560&h=315]

Comments

[aunty_marion]

That's a GKW version I didn't know! We had loads of them at junior school - GKWLO, from his bedroom window (pron. 'win-der'), silly bugger he fell out, on a red-hot cinder'; 'GKWLO, eating ripe bananas where d'you think he put the skins, down his best pyjamas' and probably half a dozen more. We also used to sing "The Angel Gabriel from Heaven came [...] - Most highly flavoured gravy..." And of course the various versions of 'While shepherds watched'.

[charlie_cochrane]

I wonder if there are regional variations? Remind me where you hail from?

[aunty_marion]

Grew up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, north Staffordshire.

Good King Wenceslas looked out
on his kitchen garden
bumped into a brussels sprout
and said 'I beg your pardon!'

[charlie_cochrane]

Dad was south London - clearly different adaptations!

[moth2fic]

I like the 'parsley brown' idea!
We had lots of variations on While Shepherds Watched and a few for Good King Wenceslas but I don't recall any for any other carols. (Newcastle upon Tyne). I knew the above ones, apart from the winder/cinder one.

[charlie_cochrane]

'Oh Come let's kick the door in' must be south London. :)