Rowing with crocodiles
[Poll #1909191]
I grew up with the bare minimum of "life is but a dream", with the occasional schoolyard bonus of throwing one's teacher overboard.
Here, the crocodile second verse is mandatory, but somewhat boggling in the way it's worded. What would happen if one absent-mindedly forgot to scream? It's like a bored tourist with a rote travel itinerary: Rowed boat? Check. Saw crocodile? Check. Screamed? Oh, what a waste, I totally forgot to do that.
The crocodile verse, on less frequent occasions, can also lead to lots of other animal variants. ("gently down the river/if you see a polar bear/don't forget to shiver")
The "tide" version I've heard a couple of times, but always at the same place, in a recording.
I grew up with the bare minimum of "life is but a dream", with the occasional schoolyard bonus of throwing one's teacher overboard.
Here, the crocodile second verse is mandatory, but somewhat boggling in the way it's worded. What would happen if one absent-mindedly forgot to scream? It's like a bored tourist with a rote travel itinerary: Rowed boat? Check. Saw crocodile? Check. Screamed? Oh, what a waste, I totally forgot to do that.
The crocodile verse, on less frequent occasions, can also lead to lots of other animal variants. ("gently down the river/if you see a polar bear/don't forget to shiver")
The "tide" version I've heard a couple of times, but always at the same place, in a recording.
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belts off, trousers down
isn't life a scream?!
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I love the crocodile second verse!
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I'm not yet quite comfortable with the crocodile verse, thanks to the oddness of "don't forget", but given how frequently I'm encountering it (twice today!) I suspect I shall become accustomed to it eventually despite myself.
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I mean, we had "gently down the stream / throw the teacher overboard / then s/he'll really scream", but that was a knowing subversion of the "merrily merrily merrily" version.
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gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily
life is but a dream!
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"Don't forget the biscuits, we like the custard cream"
Also, because we are us, we vary the "Merrily": "Meriol, Meriol, Meriol, Meriol, life is but a dream"
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"Ha! Ha! Fooled you./I'm a submarine."
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He also very much likes the 'gently past the fishes, merrily merrily merrily now it's time for kisses' and 'gently past the tugs, merrily merrily merrily now it's time for hugs' variants.
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That's a challenging exam question!
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