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Thread: Double-Entendre Lyrics
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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My sons were all quite young, probably eight and under when that song came out on cassette.. I doubt the first reference meant anything to them, but they quickly swapped the bought wife and married cow around, laughing as they did it.
My husband was then just getting into the happy clappy, ecumenical scene after being brought up in a closed brethren group. He would wander the house singing under his breath, I cannot come, I cannot come. ![[Confused]](confused.gif) He told me it was a song written by the Spirit and therefore was totally pure. The song may have been but the hearers were not and there was much smirking and laughter.
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mousethief
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The worst double entendre (IMHO) in Orthodox hymnody is where we refer to the Virgin as the "Burning Bush" (the idea being she held God in her womb but was not harmed, just as the bush was unharmed by the fire). I feel evil every time we sing it for thinking unclean thoughts.
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Rosa Winkel
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While singing "The angel Gabirel from heaven came", the Basque carol, to my son last night, I couldn't, as ever, refrain from accidentally singing "most highly flavoured lady". I found a version on Youtube that has the words "most highly flavoured gravy" written in the score.
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Kwesi
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Is this double-entendre or just pre-Freudian?
Source: Blessed Assurance (Frances Crosby)
'"Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture burst on my sight"
"Perfect submission, all is at rest
I in my saviour am happy and blest"
............. Filled with his goodness, lost in his love."
With reference to "our souls", raised above:
From O God of Bethel
"And at our father's loved abode
Our souls arrive in peace."
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georgiaboy
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There is at least a master's thesis, if not a doctoral dissertation to be written on the Freudian implications in the hymns of Fanny Crosby!
She could have given those 18/19 century 'bride of Christ' poet-nuns a run for their money.
She was a very sick woman, bless her heart!
YMMV, of course.
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Edith
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Not heard for a long time but the hymn to Mary that used to be sung every May:
The sun is shining brightly
And all the world is gay
For 'tis the month if Mary,
The lovely month of May.
And the Holiday hymn sing at the end of the summer term with the refrain
O causa nostrae leatitiae
Roared out by the bad boys to Sister's bemusement
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Helen-Eva
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My college chapel choir used to struggle with the chorus line of "Just as I am, without one plea", namely: "Oh lamb of God, I come".
There was also something containing the line "before thy throne we sinners bend" that went very badly.
In more recent (and innocent) times, Perspice Christicola (sung to the tune Sumer is a comin' in) has at my church been abbreviated to "Pepsi cola".
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by Edith:
Not heard for a long time but the hymn to Mary that used to be sung every May:
The sun is shining brightly
And all the world is gay
For 'tis the month if Mary,
The lovely month of May.
And the Holiday hymn sing at the end of the summer term with the refrain
O causa nostrae leatitiae
Roared out by the bad boys to Sister's bemusement
Time to forget the classroom pronunciation of Latin and head for the Italianesque "Lightisheay"
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Fr Weber
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Well, the Italianate pronunciation is something like "leh-TEE-tsee-eh", so it's still perfectly possible to get something that sounds like "tits" out of it.
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