As children we sang songs and watched TV shows and movies with made-up phrases or words that were nonsensical, but we sang/said/accepted them without thinking twice.
Might I start with "Hi-ho the derry-o"?
I mean WTF? And yet I belted it out many a time with gusto.
What else?
I think Joe the Camel was trying to get me to smoke.
Jokes on him, Tony The Tiger got me hooked on sugar instead.
Wait.
You have flummoxed me.
shareI hope it was enjoyable.
No refunds.
I bet there was some song with silly lyrics you used to sing when you were a little gigabyte. How about "doo-dah, doo-dah" πΆ? That sounds like something that an adolescent robot would sing.
shareThis was quite popular in the parkerbot household:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
You make me giggle at least once a week. Sometimes twice.
shareNow that you mention it, there are many songs we learned as little kids that had strange words to them. There's this one song for Halloween that had a great rhythm we learned in my 1st grade music class that told about the ingredients a witch would be throwing into her cauldron, and at the end of each chorus, we'd sing "Al-ah-kazam-ah-kazoo!" I figured that was the part where the witch was casting her spell and saying the words.
Or let's not forget that silly Mary Poppins song, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," hehehe.
I think if a songwriter adds a catchy enough background they can get us to sing almost anything! π
shareYep. A master of nonsense words and poetry was none other than Lewis Carroll, and we all know him as the writer of the Alice in Wonderland stories, as well as the famous Jabberwocky poem.
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