How Many Tunes Can You Sing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" To?

[rtfirefly]

So far, in addition to the canonical tune: "Gilligan's Island" theme, "House of the Rising Sun," "America the Beautiful," "Yellow Rose of Texas," "Amazing Grace," "Puff the Magic Dragon," "Auld Lang Syne," and "Stairway to Heaven."

Feel free to add more if you've got 'em.

There's something called "Ballad Meter" that a lot of songs share.  The words

Comments

[davew0071]

You can sing Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" to the tune of Gilligan's Island. And all those other songs you mentioned, as well, but it's really funny when you use the Gilligan's Island music.

[rtfirefly]

Maybe you can, but I can't: I have to swallow a couple of syllables in the second line of each quatrain, as in:

T'was brillig and the slithy toves
Did gimble in the wabe (leaving out 'gyre and')
All mimsy etc.

As best as I can figure, common meter has 8,6,8,6 syllables in the four lines of each quatrain, while Jabberwocky is 8,8,8,6.