00:00My dad used to do parodies of, I think he'd call it a parody, did one of me when I was a baby.
00:11He did it on a poem of a sailor on the ocean who was fighting, surviving a storm.
00:19And so he'd all these things. He did it, he did it, put me in this poem.
00:24And Jeff says I read part of it to him. If I did, it's probably back there somewhere.
00:31I looked for it once, I couldn't find it.
00:34Anyway, he was doing it to woo Laura, his mother, to smarten up.
00:40She hadn't gone to the wedding, and I'm born. She hasn't seen me yet.
00:45So he's telling her how wonderful I am, the fearless Dave on the ocean wave,
00:49and lighting things on this side and that side.
00:55He went through this whole classic poem and put me in it.
01:00No doubt others care.
01:02He used to tell us stories about, I'm sure his dad did to him too,
01:07about Montmorency Mouse, who could wave a wand and make us all small like he was.
01:12And there was characters, Freddy the Frog, Sniffy the Snake, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, Bear Wolf.
01:24Montmorency Mouse, what his stories are wonderful.
01:27He went once, he had a submarine on Lake Erie, going looking for gold bullion.
01:34On Lake Erie.
01:35I'll tell you that.
01:36Anyway, he also did a Christmas song.
01:42Okay.
01:43And I'll sing the song he took it from first.
01:47I don't even know why I know it.
01:50Because I couldn't sing it until it was eight or nine.
01:57So I don't know when I learned it.
01:59We didn't have a TV until even later.
02:01But I somehow know it.
02:04And it's, uh,
02:06I'll sing, I'll sing the song a sixpence.
02:10A pocket full of rye.
02:13Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
02:17When the pie was open, the birds began to sing.
02:21Wasn't that a wondrous gift to set before the king?
02:26You ever heard that?
02:27Yeah.
02:28It's from, hmm?
02:28I have heard, I, I, I've heard the, um, the lyrics about the pie and the blackbird.
02:34I don't know where it comes from or if there's other verses.
02:36I haven't heard that before.
02:37Hmm?
02:37I have heard that, but I don't know if it's from another song or, I don't know any other verse.
02:43I don't know where it came, or another verse, yeah.
02:45I mean, anyway, that's the one he used.
02:49That's the melody he used?
02:51That's the melody.
02:52Um, he threw out the rye.
02:55Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of corn.
03:00See the baby Jesus born on Christmas morn.
03:05See his mother Mary as happy as a queen.
03:09Isn't she the loveliest mother ever seen?
03:15See the holy shepherds, see the blessed kings.
03:18See the gifts they bring him, what mean these wondrous things.
03:25There's gold for the little king.
03:28There's incense for the priest.
03:31There's myrrh for his suffering.
03:34This happy Christmas feast.
03:38Sing a song of sixpence, I'll bring a present too.
03:42What is the gift he wants?
03:44The gift he wants is you.
03:48So come and bring your love to him.
03:52Come and bring your joy.
03:54Come and bring your praises to this wondrous little boy.
03:59Let's...
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