Well, FINE, so pretty much everyone except Paul and me knows the lyrics to Do-Re-Mi. I sure did appreciate all of you who assumed that I would have it right and Paul would have it wrong. We should get “Team Swistle” shirts printed up. And we should get those distributed before I tell you I was half wrong. Perhaps I should have mentioned earlier that it was only in the last decade that I realized it wasn’t “Fa, along the way to run.” And that it was only as I was composing the post that I realized it was “sol” not “so”.
Paul was singing, correctly, “Fa, a long long way to run.” I was singing, incorrectly but I still prefer it, “Fa, a longer way to run.”
Paul was singing, incorrectly, “Ti, I drink with jam and bread.” I was singing, correctly, “Ti, a drink with jam and bread.” Actually, I don’t think I’d like tea with jam and bread. I think I’d prefer it with an almond white-chocolate cherry scone, the kind with big-grained sugar all over the top. MMMMMmmmmmm.
I’m late to the party, but I have to admit that it was many, many years of singing that song before I found out that it wasn’t “Ti, I drink with LEMON BREAD.”
Not that I had ever heard of lemon bread, but I liked lemons. And I never once ate jam.
You guys are like, a PERFECT MATCH. lmao.
Was this just a big coincidence or very timely? I noticed the movie was playing yesterday and I immediately thought of you. I watched a few minutes of it, as I cannot see it playing and not stop and watch, at least for a little while. That and Wizard of Oz are both Easter to me.
haha! I like your version of what’s good with tea better.
I would so wear a TEAM SWISTLE shirt! LOL
It is SO, not SOL. That website is wrong.
Mmmm… scones.
I’m with you -R-, the song lyric is definitely
“So – a needle pulling thread”
I’ve got no scones, but I’ll make do with leftover easter cookies :)
I might even consider a team Swistle bumper sticker!
Sol is kind of wrecking my world right now.
Maybe it is because I am kind of sick and whiney and that just seems SOL wrong.
It is “so”. “Sol” is NOT a needle pulling thread, and as much as I love Wikipedia, it is user-updated, and you never can tell who’s talking our of their asses on that site. Also, just because Wiki says what it says doesn’t mean the lyrics of the song are musically accurate, so maybe it SHOULD be “sol”. But it’s not. I will not be convinced otherwise.
So.
So there. :-)
it actually is “sol”.
Do, re, mi, etc comes from a technique for teaching music called solfege (sp?). So REALLY it is “sol” although obviously for purposes of the play on words in the song, they had to use “so”. Maybe the writers were confused too!
anonymous is correct-
sol is the sound used in solfege sight reading technique and in some countries the “ti” is “si”
I just posted an Easter pic made awesome by Target. I thought you would appreciate it.
Okay, maybe you have already seen this but I saw it and I thought of your recent posts. I say, who cares if you are saying the words wrong when there is a train station full of people dancing to it!
check it out
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4816051/12849087
Let me try that link again
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4816051/12849087.com
This is a must see!
Yeah, the only time I tried out for a play as a kid was for the Sound of Music… BACK THEN even after rehearsing, I couldn’t remember the words for the audition- which, of course, was the Doe a Deer Song. Ugh…. obviously I’m consoled now, as it seems to not just be me…
Got nothing except for I was totally wrong, but at least we were wrong the exact same way. A long long way to run, c’mon!
yeah, i agree. screw the jam and bread. I’ll take chocolate croissant.
Ha ha – immediately after reading that post with the poll, I had to go out and buy the dvd so my kids could watch it. I couldn’t stop singing it!
Alright, the former music major in me is twitching, just a little bit…
Here’s the wiki link for Solfege Syllables:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfege
It’s is “sol”, but the ‘L’ is silent….
I saw this video and it immediately made me think of you, Swistle. I dare anyone to watch this and not smile. It’s too cute.