I hate this song because it is the opposite of what Christmas is about. Poor Rudolph was ostracized until the other reindeer realized that he could be of use to them. Rudy should have told them to go get bent.
Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator by Bob Rivers has always been one of my favorites for this reason. "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator had a very shiny car / and if you ever saw it / you were probably near a bar... that's how the police found him / wrapped around a maple tree / Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator / he's a drunken S.O.B."
right. Singing songs to mock the personal tragedies of someone's life because they belong to a different political party than you is so much more in the Christmas spirit.
Totally, heracles. I get them coming to my quizzes and leaving obnoxious comments all the time, accusing me of saying offensive things about others when they're the ones leaving comments with pointed insults directed at one specific user, sometimes blunt and other times lazily shielded. Lame, right?
If someone drinks and drives, they don't deserve sympathy. In some countries, killing someone in a drunken road accident can count as murder even if it was entirely accidental.
you're still making a silly song out of someone's tragic death. That people enjoy singing because they enjoy the meanness of it and it satisfies their partisan dislike of the other. Teddy wasn't the only person in the car. I have no special sympathy for alcoholics or drunk drivers at all.
Maybe I'm not being clear: if you want to criticize Ted Kennedy for getting a woman killed, by all means do it. But if the way you do it is with a smug look on your face singing a happy song... you've just given up the moral high ground.
The counter-version I learned as a child was "Randolph the bow-legged cowboy had a very shiny gun and if you ever saw it you would turn around and run. All of the other cowboys used to laugh and call him names. They never let poor Randolph play in any poker games. Then one foggy Friday night sheriff came to say, 'Randolph with your gun so bright won't you lead my posse tonight?' Then how the cowboys loved him as they shouted out with glee. Randolph the bow-legged cowboy, come and have a beer with me." We couldn't sing that one around the parents though because it mentioned playing poker and drinking beer.
chappaquiddick doesn't rhyme with "S.O.B."... and what fun is a Christmas song making light of alcoholism and manslaughter if you can't have some profanity in there as well?
Oy people! Would you lighten up? It's just a fun quiz,,,,and a Christmas quiz at that about a song most of us learned as children. Save the point-counterpoint political nastiness for a different forum, please.
I straight away thought of the lyrics to the Latin version, which is terribly sad of me. We used to have to sing it at school. "Rudolphus rubrinasus, fulgentissimo naso..."
I hope the 99% on the words already mentioned in the title are because people opened this quiz and forgot about it so the time ran out before they were able to guess anything. Otherwise that would be... embarrassing. :P
I've never heard the introductory section before - only the part in green - managed to guess the lyrics though. Also did anyone else learn it as "will you guide my sleigh tonight" rather than "won't you guide my sleigh tonight"?
Where's the lines, like a lightbulb, like shinola, like strip poker, and like Atilla The Hun? And also, Rudolph get your nose over here and guide my sleigh today?
Never noticed how weird the intro is. The singer concedes you know second-tier reindeer like Donder, but then asks if you know the most famous reindeer of all. Sure, you know Franklin Pierce, but have you ever heard of Abe Lincoln?
Anyone else learn his name as Donder and not Donner? I looked it up and it used to be Donder, and that is always how my mom used to sign it. Her mother (My grandma) was German...
Many people would not get it but Donner is actually Dunder as originally written. And Blitzen was Blixem, changed to Blixen to rhyme with Vixen, and then changed again to the German Blitzen
"Hey kid, what some children might think is your weakness could actually be the most powerful thing about you. So don't listen to them." Terrible message for children to hear.
Here's another quiz on Christmas Carol lyrics. Not sure if it will work, please check it out :)
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/201134/away-in-a-manger
Then they ask if you recall Rudolph when he's the only reindeer most remember.