On Monday, May 21, 2012 9:23:05 PM UTC+1, Sarah V. wrote:
> My four-year-old, displaying the streak of eccentricity that one might
> expect in a second-generation afper, has decided she wants 'luggage
> songs' for her bedtime ritual.
Gonna lock her up in a trunk? ...
> I assume she means the lower-case 'l'
> variety, since she isn't yet quite old enough to read of the
> Discworld, but I'm sure either would do.
>
> Anyway, thought I'd show my face on here to a) look up old filks
> involving the Luggage and b) see whether anyone had any ideas for
> either luggage or Luggage songs.
>
> So far, have got:
>
> Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag
> Tempted (mainly the first two lines)
> Another Suitcase In Another Hall
> Pack Up Your Sorrows (I was feeling pretty stretched by then, and she
> accepted it)
>
> Any bright ideas?
Lots that nearly have "Valise" in the title
of course...
"Jabberwocky" has all the portmanteau words...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Man_%28Said_Follow_the_Van%29
Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
"...Trousseau, seems it how Funny"
"And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear"
"I left my heart in San Francisco"
"All My Luggage" /obviously/, and you can bend an
Abba song to come out as "If It Wasn't Samsonite".
And there's "Trolly Madly Deeply".
"Anyone Who Had a Cart".
("Colonel Bogey".)
I've been watching you for days now baby
I just love your sexy ways now baby
You now my love will never stop now baby
Just put your loving in my box baby
Believe me,
You really don't have to worry.
I only want to make you happy
And if you say,
"Hey, go away," I will
But I think better still,
I'd better stay around and love you.
Do you think I have a case?
(Let me ask you to your face:
Do you think you love me?)
No milk today, my love has gone away
(and she took it with her)
No? Well, maybe,
"If you leave me now,
You'll take away the biggest part of me"