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washing machine · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:14 pm

Harmless, I'm with you.

stip · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:56 pm

my wife and I fight about this all the time. It's tearing our marriage apart

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Do you fight all day long, all through the town, or both?

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:11 pm

Guys, it's all through the town. And Moves Like Jagger is just awful. Awful. But too many people that I love and respect love that song for me to hold it against anyone. I just don't get it.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Well, like a lot of kids' songs, it's public domain, in different versions. But in England in the 1980s, it was 'all day long'. Which leads me to believe that I am, in fact, correct on this. Suck a bag of dicks?

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:10 pm

I agree that you are correct in that you've been singing the wrong words since the 1980s, yes.

spenno · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:11 pm

It's "all day long".

What are you people, crazy?

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:12 pm

"All day long" doesn't even rhyme forcryingoutloud.

theplatypus · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:13 pm

It's an anonymous children's folk song with no official lyrics.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

This isn't about rhyming. "Round" and "town" aren't full rhymes. It sounds like it's been rewritten in an attempt to sound rhymey, by someone who didn't really know what they were doing. My wife just said she's been singing it 'wrong' since the late 70's.

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:15 pm

YOU'RE AN ANONYMOUS CHILDREN'S FOLK SONG WITH NO OFFICIAL LYRICS

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:16 pm

Alex wrote:

the mynabirds

no need to be ashamed of this

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

theplatypus wrote:

It's an anonymous children's folk song with no official lyrics.

Folk song? Circa the 1400's?

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

To me there is no doubt that somebody wrote this in very recent decades, and someone out there knows who it is.

theplatypus · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:18 pm

No. It's anonymous and has hundreds of different variations across countries, languages and generations.

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:19 pm

Harmless wrote:

To me there is no doubt that somebody wrote this in very recent decades, and someone out there knows who it is.

I know exactly who it is, and he's asked me to tell you that is absolutely "all through the town."

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:20 pm

Harmless wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

It's an anonymous children's folk song with no official lyrics.

Folk song? Circa the 1400's?

THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BUSES IN THE 1400'S

stip · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:20 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:

"All day long" doesn't even rhyme forcryingoutloud.

theplatypus · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:21 pm

A quick search reveals that it's a variation of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", an English folk song from the 1800s.

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:22 pm

theplatypus wrote:

A quick search reveals that it's a variation of "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", an English folk song from the 1800s.

Pfffft!

Absurd. Those songs are as similar as Given to Fly and Going to California.

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