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A GAY, OLD TIME
A page for scribg HaveAGayOldTime: Mic. Tradnal: "Gay" or "gaily": The trope name self om the last le of The Fltston theme song. * it was 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".
GAY OLD TIME
Have a Gay Old Time leratureTradnal: Anne of Green Gabl: Anne and her iends form a story-wrg club. Anne ments that one girl "puts too … * it was a gay old time *
" 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.
I HAD A GAY OLD TIME
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.
HAVE A GAY OLD TIME
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.
GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
" 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".