Sat and practiced piano - badly - tonight, using the elementary Christmas carol primer I bought. I can now muddle my way through "We Three Kings of Orient Are" if you don't mind dropped notes and significant profanity.
As a kid, I loved all the exotic, rich imagery in that one. I managed to avoid the classic parody involving the rubber cigar until I met the Mr. I've never forgiven him ... .
That verse would be Balthasar, with the myrrh, IIRC ... I can never read that word without remembering Peter Cook's pronunciation of it in their routine "The Gospel Truth" - meeeerhrrhhhh, more or less.
It would probably be good company with "O Holy Night". In my house, it's routinely punctuated with fart noises, in memory of the time we were at a Xmas performance and one of the choir members ripped a most righteous cheek slapper right after the soprano soloist hit "fall on your knees".
Nothing leads to stifled giggling so much as mid-hymnal flatulence.
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So who swears most: Casper, Melchior, or Balthasar?
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As a kid, I loved all the exotic, rich imagery in that one. I managed to avoid the classic parody involving the rubber cigar until I met the Mr. I've never forgiven him ... .
That verse would be Balthasar, with the myrrh, IIRC ... I can never read that word without remembering Peter Cook's pronunciation of it in their routine "The Gospel Truth" - meeeerhrrhhhh, more or less.
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Nothing leads to stifled giggling so much as mid-hymnal flatulence.