"The worms they crept in"

[Tom Kysilko]

The tune I associate with the gopher guts song, if it were based on the
Gounod tune, would be quite an extreme variation on it.  The tune I'm
thinking of is that of "The Old Gray Mare (she ain't what she used to be)"
or "Here we sit like birds in the wilderness" or (I believe) the Scottish
fiddle tune "Down in Demarara."  My tune for the worms crawl in song would
be closer to the Gounod tune, but still not that close.
--Tom Kysilko

At 9/18/2004 12:46 PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The tune is based upon "Marche Fun`ebre d'une Marionette" by Charles
>Gounod (1818-93).
>JL
>
>"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
>On Sep 18, 2004, at 7:32 AM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> >>>>
> > Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
> > Mutilated monkey meat,
> > Dirty little birdies' feet.
> > Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
> > And me without a spoon.
> > <<<
> >
> > But there are straws.
> >
> > (to the tune I associate with "And that ain't all....".
> > If the song is in C, this line goes G A G Bb[hold])
>
>this conclusion on a seventh chord (with a four-syllable tag line) is
>all over in performances of pop music. it's the sort of thing that
>*ought* to have a name, but does it? (are there inventories of the
>riffs and figures of popular music?)
>
>the history is undoubtedly very very murky.
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
>
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