Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Canadian Ped-agogy

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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Where is the "Canadian bacon" label when you need it?

3/04/2008 12:12 PM
Mr roT said...

Chorus:

The sun is bright, the grass is green; Lanterloo, lanterloo.

The King is courting his young queen; Lanterloo, my Lady.

Men: They go a-walking. What do they see?

Women: An almanack in a walnut tree. They go a-riding. Whom do they meet?

Men: Three scarecrows and a pair of feet. What will she do when they sit at table?

Women: Eat as much as she is able. What will he do when they lie in bed?

Chorus: Lanterloo, lanterloo.

Men: Draw his sword and chop off her head.

Chorus: Lanterloo, lanterloo. Lanteroo, my lady.

Shadow: Sweet dreams my master. Dreams may lie, but dream. For when you wake, you die.


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This big, swaying 6/8 chorus brings the scene to an end in the key of A major once more. But the homecoming is ironic. The country reed ensemble is expanded to an urban serenade band of oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns in pairs, sounding a ritornello, and the innocence of the opera's beginning is quite gone. At first the whores and roaring boys seem to be singing a nursery-rhyme nocturne, but then, as they reach out from A major to B, D, G and C, their words become more mysterious and sexually suggestive. In a parody of children's May Day ceremonial they conduct Tom and Mother Goose to bed, leaving Shadow alone to wish his master sweet dreams, with the warning that when he wakes he dies.
Here.

3/04/2008 5:29 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

In the second season of the HBO series, The Wire, some organized Greek crime thugs typically chopped off the hands and head of whoever they whacked. Perhaps the Canadian mafia takes it a bit further with the feet?

And the "Fargo" pic is classic, AA.

3/04/2008 9:12 PM
Mr roT said...

There's also "Shallow Grave". Wonderful movie with extremity-sawings.

3/05/2008 12:37 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Nothing to lose your head over though, right?

3/05/2008 3:22 PM

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