I Had a Gay Old Time - TIME

Contents:

• A GAY, OLD TIME
• GAY OLD TIME
• I HAD A GAY OLD TIME
• HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
• GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG

A GAY, OLD TIME

Those of who grew up wh The Flston are perfectly aware of the archaic meang of "gay" bee of s e old rtoons like this one. Sce the OP was about the e of "gay old", and sce this thread was posted the Spanish-English fom for translatns, I'll share how was translated one Spanish versn of the show: Tú te divertirás. In the Civil War folk song "When Johnny Com Marchg Home", there's the rea "we'll all feel gay when Johnny marchg home".

" An stance that rgs pecially odd to morn ears occurs a h song of the 1930s, "Girls Were Ma To Love And Kiss"; the sger, fendg his womanizg ways, asks "Shall I be blamed if God has ma me gay? " (Given that the word was already Jazz slang for both "swger" and "homosexual" by that time, this may have been an tentnal Double Entendre, an -joke that most listeners would miss.

) In Jerry Vale's "Pretend You Don't See Her", the sger advis himself to "se and pretend to be gay" when the object of his unrequed affectns approach. The tle song om Tom Was' mil The Black Rir the origal meang of "gay", probably orr to sound old-timey. In the classic ballad "The Cowboy's Lament" (perhaps better known as "The Streets of Laredo") the dyg wboy sgs "Once the saddle I ed to go dashg, once the saddle I ed to go gay.

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Frankie Lymon And The Teenager's "Why Do Fools Fall In Love"Why do birds sg so gay, And lovers awa the break of day? Andy Williams' "May Each Day", which was sung at the end of his shows, ntaed the le "May each day the year be a good one, / May each dawn fd you happy and gay" the olr sense of lively and joyo, as he was wishg the dience joyful memori for each day and moment of the year.

The pany was gay, we'd turn night to day Dean Mart's song "That's Amore" has the lyrics "Hearts will play, Tippy-tippy-tay, Tippy-tippy-tay/Like a gay tarantella".

" The old song "Aba Daba Honeymoon": All night long they chattered away / All day long they were happy and gay "It's a Big, Wi, Wonrful World" is a lovely old song that's never heard nowadays, possibly due to s openg l parg beg love to beg "a gay Santa Cls.

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" Nowadays, 's hard enough durg Christmas to fd time to Deck The Hall[s] wh boughs of holly; some of will never manage, "Don we now our gay apparel. Gog still further back to Christmas past, the Boar's Head Carol has the tle licy "beck'd wh a gay garland". Rachel Rachel I've been thkg what a gay world would be If the girls were all transported Far beyond the northern sea.

" "Somebody Nobody Lov", wrten by Seymour Miller and bt known Ella Fzgerald's terpretatn, ntas the l, "I've prayed on bend knee/For that certa gay prce charm'/Who was meant for me. From Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Aga (Naturally)":To thk that only yterday I was cheerful bright and gay (We uld mentn later the song his fiancée stands him up at the altar, so maybe there's more to ... Siarly, there's the reggae group The Gaylads, who formed 1963 (and ntue to perform live unr that name to this day) The Holli, the early 1960s, rerd a song lled "Keep Off That Friend Of Me" the chos of which clus the l "Now she's turned her head away/She's lost her se/She's not so gay".

Vanuver-based Spir of the Wt (pare them wh Great Big Sea) ed this phrase verbatim the song "The Crawl" (a song about a pub crawl): "Well we planned to Have a Gay Old Time, the sh we did not spare... The Shaggs' song "Why Do I Feel" is even more hilar wh this md: "Sometim I worry over nothg at all Sometim I thk life's jt a ball When life chang and turns the other way I try to thk of somethg gay" As is "It's Halloween" wh the le: "All the kids are happy and gay" Gee Jon's song "A Rose om the Bri's Bouquet" tak on rather a different ntext when looked at om this light:I went to a weddg one bright summer dayThe bri was a bety and the people were gayAlone a rner I stood till the endFor the girl was my sweetheart and the boy my bt iend "Glter and Be Gay" om Leonard Bernste's Candi. The origal lyrics of the Kentucky State Song (My Old Kentucky Home) did a double whammy, by begng: The sun sh bright on my old Kentucky home Tis summer, the darki are gay Clive Richarson's posn "Gay Activy".

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" The 50s show tune/jazz standard "Ballad of The Sad Young Men":Tired ltle girl do the bt she nTryg to be gay for her sad young man The Elvis Prley song "Paralyzed", first rerd 1956: Lucky me, I’m sgg every day Ever sce that day you me my way You ma my life for me jt one big happy game I'm gay every morng, at night I’m still the same! "Three Ltle Pigs" by Frank Churchill and Ann Ronell:Number one was very gay And he built his hoe of hay Wh a hey hey toot He blew on his flute And he played around all day.

A 1991 Direct to Vio release lled Simply Mad About The Moe featured mic vio style clips of ntemporary micians performg Disney songs, cludg a hip-hop versn of "Three Ltle Pigs" performed by LL Cool J: For the most part, LL's versn stuck to the origal lyrics, plete wh the "very gay" le. "Kookaburra ss the old gum tree/Merry, merry kg of the bh is he/Lgh, kookaburra; lgh, kookaburra/Gay your life mt be.

"Any Other Way", a soul song first released 1962 by William Bell, clud the l "tell her that I'm happy / tell her that I'm gay": The song was meant to be a Break-Up Song where a man is nial about how much he miss his ex-girliend, so "gay" and "happy" were beg ed as synonyms.

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The English versn of the Catalan "Fum Fum Fum" has the le "Com a most important day, let be gay, let be gay" (referrg to Christmas). " Harry Belafonte's "Jamai Farewell", om 1957: Down the way where the nights are gay and the sun sh daily on the mountatop...

The alternate lyric don't exist bee of this trope, though, but bee the actn was moved om day to night, changg the rhyme scene/ John Kirkpatrick's "Dt to Dt" has the le: "You might be gay, you might be grievg".

[1] A few folk songs e "feelg gay" to refer to beg pleasantly dnk, most notably cludg the first verse of "The Night Pat Murphy Died" by Great Big Sea. " However, given that Billy Strayhorn, the poser of the song, was a gay man and his sexualy was an open secret the jazz world, this may have been tentnal Subtext.