Songs with 'gay' in teh lyrics

[pokerfan]

An Australian school has been criticised for dropping the word 'gay' from a children's song.

Garry Martin, the head of Lepage Primary in Melbourne, said that he replaced the word with 'fun' to avoid children rolling around on the floor in "fits of laughter".

After Australian media reported the story, he said he received angry emails from the public.

The song, which dates from the 1930s, is titled 'Kookaburra Sits in an Old Gum Tree'. The first verse usually goes: "Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra, gay your life must be".

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68118O20100902

So that got me thinking. What other songs will need editing to appease this principal?

1. Meet the Flintstones. (We'll have a gay old time.)
2. Deck the Halls (don we now our gay apparel.)
3. ?

[meow2u3]

1. Oh, how language changes!

"Gay", in the original sense of the word, used to mean light-hearted, merry, and carefree. Now it means someone who's sexually attracted to a member of his or her own gender. Just a linguistic comment.

[pokerfan]

2. 3. "I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story

Maria: “I feel pretty and witty and gay.”

[mikeytherat]

3. "We'll have a fun time, we'll have a gay old time!" - Theme from The Flintstones

mikey_the_rat

[pokerfan]

4. Good one!

Except it was already on my list. Number 1, in fact.

[pokerfan]

5. 4. When Johnny Comes Marching Home

"We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home."

[blogslut]

6. Am I Blue

I'm just a woman, a lonely woman,
waiting on the weary shore.
I'm just a woman who's only human,
one you should feel sorry for.

Well, I woke up this morning a long about dawn.
Without a warning I found that he was gone.
Why did he do it? How could he do it?
He'd never done it before.

Am I blue. Am I blue.
Ain't these tears in these eyes tellin' you?
Oh, am I blue? Well, I bet you would be, too,
if each plan with your man done fell through.

There was a time I was his only one.
but now I'm the sad and lonely one.

Was I gay 'til today?
But now that man is gone,
he's gone and we are through.
Am I blue.

There was a time I was his only one.
But now, a, now, now, now, I'm the sad and lonely one.
Oh god, I'm lonely.

But I remember, oh, I remember when I was gay.
That was up until today,
'cause now that man is gone, he's gone and we are through.
Am I, am I, well, would you believe it if I told you I'm blue?

[pokerfan]

8. Good one from 1929

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_Blue%3F

[blogslut]

10. Bette Midler sang the hell out of it

...on her debut album, The Divine Miss M. One of the best debut albums in the history of debut albums.

[pokerfan]

11. and Billie Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4Ylw1PqGE

[blogslut]

12. Well, of course!

It's interesting the singing styles of different eras. In Ms. Holiday's time, singers were expected to follow arrangements to a tee and inserting added emotion was simply unheard of. Billie's voice was naturally melancholy and she managed to personalize songs in the most divinely subtle ways with the dips and sways of her voice. Then, later, Frank Sinatra broke the fucking mold for singers - he took pauses, he let his voice crack, he literally changed popular music, giving it personality through phrasing.

Ms. Midler, in that rendition of Am I Blue, evokes both the melancholy of Holiday and the emotional phrasing of Sinatra.

[Tom_Foolery]

7. My Old Kentucky Home...

The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home.
Tis summer; the people are gay.

[pokerfan]

9. From 1853!

Know the tune, never learned the lyrics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home

[Roon]

13. I remember the first time I ever read the word "gay"

it was in 1st grade and the sentence was "the gay maid shakes her dust mop" or something like that...and they showed a picture of a smiling woman shaking a mop out the window.

What is wild was even then in 1st grade, the word "gay" seemed strange and weird to me. I have no idea why.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. "(I wanna take you to a) Gay Bar"

A classic.

[BillStein]

15. "Let me tell you 'bout a place

Where the people are so gay
Twisting the night away"

[pokerfan]

18. Sam Cooke, 1962

[xchrom]

16. featuring George and Tony -- 'i wanna take ya to a gay bar' by electric six

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcgzsg_electric-six-gay-bar-uncensored_music

[realisticphish]

17. hahaha

check this out too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o

[timtom]

19. Then of course...

there's this wonderful song by Cole Porter and sung by Danny Kaye in the musical, "Let's Face It."

FARMING (Let's Face It, 1943)

Here's a bit of news that's quite a shocker
Proving Mother Nature still has charm,
Quoting Mr. Cholly Knickerbocker,
"Get in the swim and buy a farm."
Acres of alfalfa, fields of clover
Suddenly enchant our top "Who's Who,"
So the moment all this row is over
What say if we go hay-seed too?
For

Farming, that's the fashion,
Farming, that's the passion
Of our great celebrities of today.
Kit Cornell is shellin' peas,
Lady Mendl's climbin' trees,
Dear Mae West is at her best in the hay,
Stomping through the thickets,
Romping with the crickets,
Make's 'em feel more glamorous and more gay,
They tell me cows who are feeling milky
All give cream when they're milked by Wilkie,
Farming is so charming they all say.

Farming, that's the fashion,
Farming, that's the passion
Of our great celebrities of today.
Monty Woolley, so I heard,
Has boll weevils in his beard,
Michael Strange has got the mange, will it stay?
Mussing up the clover,
Cussing when it's over,
Makes 'em feel more glamorous and more gay.
The natives think it's utterly utter
When Margie Hart start churning her butter,
Farming is so charming, they all say.

Farming, that's the fashion,
Farming, that's the passion
Of our great celebrities of today.
Fannie Hurst is haulin' logs,
Fannie Brice is feedin' hogs,
Garbo-peep has led her sheep all astray,
Singing while their rakin',
Bringing home the bacon,
Makes 'em feel more glamorous and more gay.
Miss Elsa Maxwell, so the folks tattle,
Got well-goosed while de-horning her cattle,
Farming is so charming, they all say.

Farming, that's the fashion,
Farming, that's the passion
Of our great celebrities of today.
Don't inquire of Georgie Raft
Why his cow has never calfed,
Georgie's bull is beautiful, but he's gay!
Seeing spring a-coming,
Being minus plumbing,
Make 'em feel informal and degage.
When Cliff Odets found a new tomater
He ploughed under the Group Theyater,
Farming is so charming, they all say.

Farming, that's the fashion,
Farming, that's the passion
Of our great celebrites of today.
Steinbeck's growing Grapes of Wrath,
Guy Lombardo, rumor hath,
Toots his horn and all the corn starts to sway,
Racing like the dickens,
Chasing after chickens,
Makes 'em feel more glamorous and more gay,
Liz Whitney has, on her bin of manure, a
Clip designed by the Duke of Verdura,
Farming is so charming, they all say.

Note the reference to a bull belonging to George Raft...

[shawmut]

20. "To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay"

Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan