"Tainted Love" (followed by electronic BOMP BOMP noise), as performed by Soft Cell, on the album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. Ahhhh.
Let's see how much of the XMas break-up song I remember from my [jr?] HS chorus. It seemed funny then, but it's striking me a little creepy now:
The first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight and so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite then with a single cartridge I shot that blasted partridge my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The second day after Christmas I pulled on the old rubber gloves and very gently wrung the necks of both the turtle doves The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup I had to kill the three french hens to make her chicken soup
The four calling birds were a big mistake for their language was obscene The five golden rings were completely fake and they turned my fingers green....
Yep, that's the sucker, all right. And you remember it nearly the same way. And lose it at the same spot I do. I wonder where out there my chorus teacher is? Eh, I should google for the rest. I thought it was funny at the time, too, but have been chewed up in bad breakups enough to sympathize with the fury. I also spent a long time dealing with livestock, love, and money. So the conversion of gift (what kind of white elephant was he giving her in all those people anyway?) into object of rage/vengeance, ridicule, livestock, and rejection is understandable. Or it's just a silly song. I couldn't find the creepy for myself. But then, I like Tom Lehrer and morbid medieval ballads. Not exclusively.
Maybe this will help. Thanks for mentioning The Twelve Days After Christmas. I may have heard it before once or twice, but I'm not sure. It does seem rather Tom Lehrer-ish.
I like Tom Lehrer and medieval ballads too (not sure I've heard too many morbid medieval ballads). Unfortunately, since HS I've been exposed to people who feed off anger, who look hard for ways they can imagine themselves wronged so they can feel gleeful and self-righteous about being vindictive and cruel. This song now reminds me of them. I'm glad that for some folks it's just a silly song (really). Certainly the original is silly fun, with all those gifts. I wonder if it was an early cry against the commercialization of Christmas? ;-)
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Let's see how much of the XMas break-up song I remember from my [jr?] HS chorus. It seemed funny then, but it's striking me a little creepy now:
The first day after Christmas, my true love and I had a fight
and so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite
then with a single cartridge I shot that blasted partridge
my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
The second day after Christmas I pulled on the old rubber gloves
and very gently wrung the necks of both the turtle doves
The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup
I had to kill the three french hens to make her chicken soup
The four calling birds were a big mistake for their language was obscene
The five golden rings were completely fake and they turned my fingers green....
Not sure how it transitions to the wrap up.
12 days of _________
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