Hello everyone, I'd like to share with you a song I found (linguistically speaking, but not only) very interesting. And challenge you to tell me where you think it comes from. It was in a show that was running in the states for many years, very popular in Greece as well at the time. Well, there it goes:
M O R R O W
I started on a journey
Just about a year ago
To a little town called Morrow
In the state of Ohio
I’ve never been much of traveler
And I really didn’t know
That Morrow was the hardest place
I’d ever try to go
So I went down to the station
For my ticket and applied
For tips regarding Morrow
Not expecting to be guyed
Said I, “My friend,
I’d like to go to Morrow and return
No later than tomorrow
For I haven’t time to burn”
Said he to me
“Now let me see if I have heard you right
You’d like to go to Morrow
And return tomorrow night
You should have gone to Morrow
Yesterday and back today
For the train that goes to Morrow
Is a mile upon its way
If you had gone to Morrow yesterday
Now don’t you see
You could have gone to Morrow
And return today at three
For the train today to Morrow
If the schedule is right
Today it gets to Morrow
And returns tomorrow night
Said I, “I’d like to go to Morrow,
So can I go tonight
If there is no delay”
”well, well,” I said to him,
“And I’ve got no more to say
Can you get anywhere tomorrow,
And get back again today?”
Said I, “I guess you know it all
But kindly let me say
How can I get to Morrow
If I leave this town today?”
Said he, “You cannot go to Morrow
anymore today
For the train that goes to Morrow
Is a mile upon its way
I was so disappointed
I was mad enough to swear
The train had gone to Morrow
And had left me standing there
The man was right in telling me
“You are a howling jay,
You cannot go to Morrow”
Well, I guess in town I’ll stay.
« Last Edit: 21 Oct, 2008, 20:49:37 by Ion »
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