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[caddyman]

It seems that all your favourite carols were originally sung to folk tunes, according to this article on the BBC News website...

The Christmas carol While Shepherds Watched their Flocks was originally sung to the tune of folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at, an academic claims.

I can imagine that intellectually, but what I can't do, because my brain rebels at the thought, is actually insert the lyric into the tune. I can hum 'Ilkley Moor' and I can hum While Shepherds', but not with the lyrics transposed in my brain. I think it is hard wired to prevent it; a defence mechanism, perhaps.

In the meantime, here is a morsel of news for pax_draconis and other aficionados of matters octopodal. It's nothing to do with Christmas, but it is amusing. Octopus snatches coconut and runs...

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

He he.

I just reports what I finds!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I can get the first three lines but I have to sing it to the "proper" tune first so I can remember the words and then force my brain to do Ilkley moor. I think someone has been pulling his plonker on this one and he has been in too many yorkshire pubs asking the sort of questions that would set himself up to be shot down.