Boar's Head Carol (Parody)

Melody:		The Boar's Head Carol	Back to Roth's Song Index
By:		Assorted SCA folk in the 1980's

A popular game (of sorts) in my long-ago SCA days, involved the deliberate mistranslation of Latin phrases into English. For example, imagine the classic Boar's Head Carol, as heard by someone (a) mostly drunk, (b) partly deaf, and (c) with no particular knowledge of Latin:
Parody		Original
The boar's head is a ham with eyes Throw it in the air and see if it flies And I pray you my masters, eat cream pies Quoth Esther in the Cheerios Carp in April hath big toes Monaghan owns Dominos! The boar's head when it's freshly canned Has the flavor of a baby grand Which when announced by a polka band Let's us survey the anticks, oh! * Our stewpot hath provided this In honor of the Prince's briss Which in this bay to be serviced is * In Nancy Reagan's adipose		The boar's head in hand bear I Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land, Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland Let us servire cantico. Our steward hath provided this In honour of the King of Bliss; Which on this day to be servèd is In Reginensi atrio.

* (indicates verses I could not remember, and made up years later)