Time for more Name that Tune: What song, often sung in rounds, inspired this high-falutin’ first line? “Propel, propel, propel your craft, progressively down the liquid solution.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Fancified Traditional Song”
We talked about the game of converting lyrics from familiar songs to much more lofty language.
And Lauren Holland Sturdy sent this to us from Dallas.
She wrote,
For the caller who rewrote Three Blind Mice, name that tune.
Propel, propel, propel your craft progressively down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is but an illusion.
Let’s do rounds of that.
I was going to say, no, I did not sing that.
And yes, you’re welcome.
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