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Sunday, January 26, 2003 This morning: I drag myself out of bed, get to the gym just after the 10 a.m. opening of the doors (essentially the crack of dawn here -- a good time to go to the gym as most of Madrid is still comatose at 10 a.m. on a Sunday). Not completely awake, so that the combination of the first three songs played on the in-house sound system seemed especially eccentric to my ears. They were: Hey Jude -- The Beatles Staying Alive -- The BeeGees (perhaps in homage to Maurice Gibbs) The Ride of The Valkyries -- Wagner I'm not sure I've recovered from that line-up. (And all through the Valkyries' ride, I sang to myself, "Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!! Kill da wabbit!!!") That pernicious little phrase has been ricocheting around my teeny brain ever since, to the point where I think it's time to exorcise the bugger. Which I'm going to do this very minute by posting the complete lyrics to: "What's Opera, Doc?" Starring Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) and Elmer Fudd (Arthur Q Bryant) Elmer: Be vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. (Spoken:) WABBIT TWACKS!! WABBIT HOLE!! (Thrusting spear:) KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! Bugs (spoken): Kill the wabbit? Elmer: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO.... Bugs: Oh, mighty warrior of great fighting stock Might I inquire to ask, eh... what's up, doc? Elmer: I'm going to kill the wabbit! Bugs: Oh, mighty warrior, 'twill be quite a task. How will you do it, might I inquire to ask? E: I will do it with my spear and magic hewmet. B: Spear and magic hewmet? E: Spear and magic hewmet. B: Magic hewmet? E: Magic hewmet! B (spoken, dismissively): Magic hewmet. E: Yes, magic hewmet, and I give you a sample! (Bugs exits at near-light speed.) E (spoken): That was da wabbit! (There follows a chase, and then:) E: Oh, Bwoonhilda, you're so wuvly. B: Yes, I know it, I can't help it. E: Oh, Bwoonhilda, be my wuv.... (They dance, then... ) E: Weturn, my wuv... a fire burning inside me.... B: Return, my love, I want you always bee-side me. E: Wuv wike ours must be... B: Made for you and for me.... E & B : Return, won't you return, my love... for my love is yours. (While singing, they embrace. Bugs' helmet falls to the ground revealing... a pair of big honkin' rabbit ears!) Elmer (spoken, outraged): I'll KILL the wabbit!! (spoken): North winds bwow, south winds bwow. Typhoons, Hurricanes... Earthquakes!! SMOG!!!!!! Thunder, wightning, stwike the wabbit!! (Lightning flashes, striking something distant. Moving closer, we see the limp, lifeless form of Bugs. A drop of water clings to a crushed flower) E: What have I done? I've killed the wabbit! Poor wittle bunny.... (Sob!) (Bugs is carried off in Elmer's arms.) B (spoken): Well, what did you expect from an opera, a happy ending? ********** Ahhhh, that's better. rws 9:47 AM [+]
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