Some of my favourite song snippits. These are the ones that I am liable to burst into at the drop of a hat, on an associate topic:
 

• "A bold hippopotomi was standing one day,

On the banks of the cool Shalimar."

"A regular army, of Hippopotami..."

"Mud Mud Glorious Mud,
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood,
So follow me follow,
Down to the hollow,
And there let us wallow,
In glooooooouaauoo-rious Mud!"

Mud    Flanders and Swann
 
• "I'm a gnu. I'm a gnu. The gnicest work of gnature in the zoo."
The Gnu Song        Flanders and Swann

 
• "All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown,

Moon rolls through the night time, 'til daybreak comes around,
No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends,
no clear cut beginnings, so far no dead ends."
All My Life's a Circle   Pete Seeger
• "My life flows on, in endless song,

Above Earth's lamentation,
I hear the real, though far off in,
That hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing,
It sounds an echo in my soul,
How can I keep from singing?"
How Can I Keep From Singing    Pete Seeger
• 'May you build a ladder to the stars, and climb on every rung,

And may you stay, forever young."
Forever Young        Bob Dylan
• "What would you do if I sang out of tune,

Would you stand up and walk out on me?"
A Little Help From My Friends    The Beatles
• "How many roads must a man walk down,

Before you can call him a man?
Blowing in the Wind    Bob Dylan
• "'I saw a mouse,' 'Where?' 'There on the stair,'

'Where on the stair?' 'Right there!
A little mouse with clogs on...'
'Well I declare,' 'Going clip clippity clop on the stair...oh yeah.'"
The Windmill of old Amsterdam         Somebody
• "Once upon a time, you looked so fine,

threw the bums a dime, in you prime, didnt you?"
Like a Rolling Stone        Bob Dylan

• "How does it feel (da dum da mum da da),

How does it feel (da dum da mum da da),
To be on your own (dom do do do do)
With no direction home (dad do dad da da da)
Like a complete unknown
Like a roling stone?"
Like a Rolling Stone        Bob Dylan
• "My love she speaks like silence,

Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true - like ice, like fire.
People carry rosebuds, make promices by the hour,
My love she laughs like the flower,
Valentines can't buy her."
Love Minus Zero/No Limits        Bob Dylan
• "Of college girls and campus jocks,

Who hid their vernal equinox,
In pairs of faded jeans"
Song        Joan Baez

• "This land is your land, this land is my land,

From Claifornia, to the New York island,
From the red wood forest, to the gulf stream waters,
This land was made for you and me.

As I was walkin', I saw a sign there,
And on the sign it said 'No Trespassin','
But on the other side, it didn't say nothin',
That side was made for you and me."

This Land is Your Land        Woody Guthrie
• "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

The Japanese don’t care to,
The Chinese wouldn’t dare to,
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from 12 till one,
But the English detest a  siesta."
Mad Dogs and Englishmen        Noel Coward
 
• "And I went up to get inspected, protected, injected, rejected..."

 

 

"And there were all kinds of mean nasty horrible ugly people,
Who had done all kinds of mean nasty horrible ugly things..."

"And he looked at the 27 8 by 10 colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows on the front and a paragragraph

on the back explaining what each one was, and he looked at the seein' eye dog, and he realised it was just another case of American blind justice..."
"You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant,
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant,
Walk right in its around the back,
Just a half a mile from the railroad track,
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant"
Alice's Restaurant        Arlo Guthrie
• "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,

Brown copper kettles and warm woolen mittens..."
My Favourite Things        Who ever
• "Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?"
 Where have all the flowers gone?     Pete Seeger

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