Tom Lehrer《Clementine》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.84]I should like to expound briefly on a theory I have held [00:03.23]For some time to the effect [00:04.83]That the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they [00:08.29]Were written by the people [00:10.21]And if professional songwriters had written them instead [00:13.35]Things might have turned out considerably [00:14.88]Differently for example consider the old favorite [00:17.78]Clementine you know [00:18.96]In a cavern in a canyon [00:21.48]Dadada dadadada [00:23.85]A song with no recognizable merit whatsoever [00:27.40]And imagine what might have [00:28.55]Happened if for example [00:30.12]Cole porter had tried writing this song [00:32.34]The first verse might have come out [00:33.90]Like this [00:42.78]In a cavern [00:46.24]In a canyon [00:49.62]Ex cava hay hay hefting for [00:53.54]A mine [00:55.19]Far away from the boom boom boom [00:58.88]Of the city [01:00.74]She was so pretty [01:02.01]What a pity clementine [01:06.37]Oh clementine [01:08.72]Can't you tell from the howls of me [01:13.31]This love of mine [01:16.24]Calls to you from the bowels of me [01:21.01]Are you dis corning [01:23.31]The returning [01:24.44]Of this churning [01:25.41]Burning [01:26.89]Yearning for you [01:32.05]And [01:32.92]Well supposing at this point [01:34.52]That Mozart [01:36.73]Or one of that crowd had tried writing a verse [01:40.38]The next one mightn't come out as a baritone aria [01:43.24]From an Italian opera somewhat along these lines [01:55.42]Era lager e come UN fairy [01:58.82]E suo shoes numero nine [02:02.37]Herring bo ho ho hexes [02:04.07]Sans a to ho ho hopes [02:05.62]Sandalae per clementine si [02:08.77]Per clementine si [02:10.39]Per clementine sandalae [02:11.87]Per clementine sandalae [02:13.36]Per clementine [02:14.83]Clementine [02:15.92]Clementine [02:16.99]Clemen e e e e tine [02:22.52]Herring boxes sans a topazes [02:23.88]Sandalae per clementine [02:25.11]Herring boxes without topazes [02:26.15]Sandals for clementine [02:27.61]Che sciagura clementine [02:28.95]Che sciagura clementine [02:30.13]Cara clementine [02:31.46]Cara clementine na na na na na na na [02:34.74]Well supposing at this rather dramatic juncture in the narrative [02:39.19]That one of our modern [02:40.51]Cool school of composers [02:42.22]Had tried writing a verse [02:44.30]The next one mightn't come out [02:45.56]Like this [02:54.31]Drove those ducklings to the water yprach [02:56.97]Doodilehdoodoot yah hah [02:59.08]Every morning like nine a m awhoopah [03:01.32]Doodileh doo doo doodilidah [03:03.65]Got a hung upon a splinter [03:05.04]Got a hung upon a splinter klooglimah [03:07.61]Hoo hoot [03:08.89]Fell into the foamy brine [03:10.22]Dig that crazy clementine man [03:15.32]And to end on a happy note one can always count [03:19.08]On Gilbert and Sullivan for a [03:21.39]Rousing finale full of words [03:24.23]And music and signifying nothing [03:42.59]That I missed her depressed her [03:43.25]Young sister named Esther [03:44.33]This mister to pester she tried [03:46.33]Now a pestering sister's a festering blister [03:48.45]You're best to resist her say I [03:50.21]The mister resisted [03:51.25]The sister persisted [03:52.24]When I kissed her all loyalty slipped [03:53.98]When she said I could have her [03:54.98]Her sister's cadaver [03:56.00]Must surely have turned in its crypt [03:57.69]Yes yes yes yes [04:01.17]But I love she and she loves me [04:03.08]And rapture are the both of we [04:05.15]Yes I love she and she loves I [04:07.80]And will through all eternal ty [04:12.60]See what I mean