['A local NYC kids' choir just sang "Winter Wonderland." You know, "In the meadow we will build a snow man, we'll pretend that he is Parson Brown" [...] Except, the new words are, "we'll pretend that he's a circus clown..."']
Step by step, day by day, the leftist/muslim alliance strip us of our Judeo-Christian heritage, until you wake up one morning and say “what happened”? Well, it’s happening, slowly but surely, and the real push will come when they try to destroy the 2nd amendment (underway) and then where do you go? Wake up, America, before it’s too late. Merry Christmas and a belated Happy Chanukah to our Jewish posters.
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Apart from the obvious silliness I like how the paranoia ends with '... a belated Happy Chanukah to our Jewish posters' but leaves out that the poster presumably believes they're unsaved Hell-bound Christ-killers.
That said, I'd be quite far to the left if I was in America and I think the change to the 'Winter Wonderland' lyric is pretty stupid.
Well, I'm over the 1/2 century mark in age, and I remember singing the song very well. And with BOTH verses....because they didn't change the song, they just selected which verses to sing.
One verse is Parson Brown. And goes on with "He'll say are you married, we'll say no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town",
The other verse is circus clown. "We'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman, until the other kiddies knock him down."
I can see in a children's concert that you might drop a verse, to shorten the song and since they aren't getting married (and the verse mat occasion giggles in kids that age), the verse wouldn't make sense to them.
Holy crap, how far will they reach. If anything the other verse was objected to by clergy.
"A Pastor snowman? He can't be ordained and certainly never Baptised! The whole think reeks of black magic!"
@solomongrundy,
Part of why this is so bizarre is that both verses are both pretty old. The "pretend that he's a circus clown" verse was developed in the 1950s, and would be more likely to make sense to children living in the present day, given that traveling parsons aren't a part of the experience of most people in the U.S. or Western Europe today.
"We three kings of orient are
"Hark, the hairy angels sing ..."
Etc., etc.
Just a couple of examples of school children deliberately messing up Christmas carols. These examples are ones I remember from more than 50 years ago.
It's called having fun, not a conspiracy to take your beloved guns away.
Dashing through the snow
Oh!
"While shepherds washed their socks by night,
Anybody singing anything except Jesus, Jesus, Jesus around Xmastime is damneed to hell forever, anyway. Rudolf, Baby It's cold, All I want for Christmas, Jingle Bells, etc. = Evil, Evil, Eeevillll!!!! And mention of Santa Claus - fagedaboudit!
We three kings of Orient are
They've been singing "...circus clown..." for YEARS, you bozo!
(*heh heh*...now some fun....)
...sleeeeeep in heavenly peas...
Deck the halls with Buddy Holly....
Deck the harrs with boughs of horry FA RA RA RA RA RA RA RA RAAAAA.... (Best when eating Peking Duck aka 'Chinese Turkey')
Police got my dad! Police got my dad! (Feliciano, eat yer heart out!)
And the bajillion fun ways one can re-write The Twelve Days of Christmas , The MacKenzie Brothers from SCTV come to mind.
That has been the kids version of that song since it was written.
Next john drake will be objecting to "Whilst shepherds washed their socks at night, all seated round the tub ..." or "We three kings of Orient are, One in a taxi, one in a car, One in a tractor coming after, smoking a big cigar."
We three kings of orient are
And that was from the fifties!
Kids screw around. It is not a conspiracy, just kids screwing around.
"In the meadow we will build a snow man, we'll pretend that he is Parson Brown"
Strangely enough, the total lack of logic needed to get the rhyme doesn't bother Br. Drake one bit.
1. They build a snowman, which is obviously directly there in front of them.
2. It, the snowman as Parson Brown, addresses them in person, directly. He is therefore right there in front of them. Not, e.g., on the telephone.
3. They (the couple) then say he (Parson Brown) can marry them when he is "in town". But, he's right there in front of them, so he is "in town" and has been the whole time.
The logical lyric would be: "you can do the job since you're in town".
I think God likes circus clowns much more than he likes illogical verses which demand people turn off their brains in order to make a rhyme work. But God hates rhymes anyway. It says so in the Bible somewhere.
Walla Walla Wash an’ Kalamazoo!
Pogo, a very long time ago.
The verse about Parson Brown was in the original 1940's song. It wasn't "when you're in town"; it was "while you're in town". In the 50's, some prudes though it implied the couple was going to pretend they'd been married by the snowman and proceed to "consummate the wedding" (wink, wink). The bowdlerized verse about the circus clown was substituted. Nowadays, the uptight 50's era is past and people sing either verse or both.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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