{"id":24,"date":"2001-08-12T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2001-08-12T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-03-24T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T10:29:27","slug":"london-derriere-and-the-menstrual-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"London Derriere and the Menstrual Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s Irish, so I thought I’d ask him. “Do you know the name of this song?”<\/p>\n

I began humming a lilting Irish tune, the one that’s been playing in my head for weeks because I’d heard it on the radio again. It was a song I was sure I had in my CD collection somewhere, only I couldn’t remember where, and I was too lazy to get the CDs out and check for myself.<\/p>\n

“Hmm,” he said. “‘Londonderry Air’.”<\/p>\n

I blinked. “‘London Derriere’?”<\/p>\n

“Yes.”<\/p>\n

“Derriere? Really?”<\/p>\n

He was only half-listening to me. “‘Londonderry Air’,” he confirmed.<\/p>\n

I was skeptical and almost absolutely sure he was pulling my leg. “That’s an odd name for a song. ‘London Ass’?”<\/p>\n

He paused, rolled his eyes heavenward, and shook his head. “Air,” he clarified. “Londonderry. Air. Not London Derriere.” Then he burst out laughing and made a comment about how strangely my mind worked sometimes.<\/p>\n

Okay, then. “Londonderry Air”.<\/p>\n

The reason I asked was that I wanted to find the lyrics to it so that I could start working on creating an image based on them. The only version of the song I ever heard was instrumental, but I knew there were words; there had to be. So I looked it up on Google<\/a> today and found it being linked with “Danny Boy”, another great Irish tune. I listened to various WAV, MIDI, and MP3 files and found that “Londonderry Air” wasn’t at all<\/i> what I had in mind; apparently, “Londonderry Air” was just another name for “Danny Boy”.<\/p>\n

“Hey!” I called out. “That’s not the song I asked you about!”<\/p>\n

“Well,” he conceded, “I may have gotten the name wrong.”<\/p>\n

So I dug into my CD collection and pulled out my old favorite: Forgiven, Not Forgotten<\/i> by The Corrs. There were about five or six instrumental songs on it, and it was just a matter of playing them and finding out which one I wanted. As it turned out, the song I was looking for was “The Minstrel Boy”.<\/p>\n

“For crying out loud!” I exclaimed when I found the lyrics to “The Minstrel Boy” on the web. “This is an entirely different image!” I’d been picturing a lone figure standing atop a very green Irish hill, and now it turns out the song is about a harpist who goes to war. What in Hades…?<\/p>\n

Oh, well. Whatever. I began planning an image around the concept.<\/p>\n

“Did you find what you wanted?” he asked later.<\/p>\n

“It was ‘The Minstrel Boy’,” I muttered, “not ‘Londonderry Air’.”<\/p>\n

“Ah.” He nodded sagely. “So it wasn’t ‘London Derriere’. It was ‘The Menstrual Boy’.”<\/p>\n

When I froze and narrowed my eyes at him, he merely smirked and walked away.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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He’s Irish, so I thought I’d ask him. “Do you know the name of this song?” I began humming a lilting Irish tune, the one that’s been playing in my head for weeks because I’d heard it on the radio again. It was a song I was sure I had in my CD collection somewhere, only I couldn’t remember where, and I was too lazy to get the CDs out and check for myself. “Hmm,” he said. “‘Londonderry Air’.” I…<\/p>\n

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