Assorted lyrics
This is the place where non-theme lyrics are stored. You know, lyrics from specials, or songs that featured within shows, or even foreign translations! Not much here at the moment but, as ever, submissions are more then welcome.
Dangermouse in French | Duckula in German
Uptails all | Avenger Penguins: Rock And Roll Penguins
Here's a treat – it's Dangermouse, but in French! Can you even conceive of such a thing?? Over there, DM is called "Dare Dare Motus", because a) "Danger Souris" sounds really dumb and b) they had to work around the fact that he had "DM" on his sweater. This is the entire theme, ably translated by my buddy Zee, a genuine Frenchwoman. Merci beaucoup!
Dare Dare Motus (FRENCH)
Vêtu d'un bandeau sur un oeil
Peut-être pour tromper l'ennemi
Un agent secret se lève du fauteuil
Bon sang, mais c'est une souris!
Ses deux grandes oreilles sont toutes roses
Deux lettres sur son ventre supposent
Que c'est la super hyper super souris
Refrain:
Dare Dare Motus
Souris aérodynamique
Dare Dare Motus
Souris baton de dynamite
Dare Dare Motus
La souris de l'ère atomique
C'est la meilleure de toutes les souris
Dans la sauterelle spatiale
Avec son ami Panikar
Elle fend l'univers combattant Dosvert
Qui veut conquérir la terre
Ses aventures sont un défi
Lancé au péril de sa vie
Mais c'est la super hyper super souris
(Refrain)
(Refrain)
Musical break
(Refrain)
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Dare Dare Motus (TRANSLATION)
Adorned with an eyepatch
Perhaps to deceive his enemies
A secret agent rises from the sofa,
But good grief, it's a mouse!
His two big ears are all pink,
Two letters on his front imply
That this is the super hyper super mouse.
Chorus:
Dangermouse,
Aerodynamic mouse
Dangermouse,
A dynamite mouse
Dangermouse,
A mouse for the atomic age
He's the greatest of all mice.
In the space hopper,
With his friend Panikar (Penfold)
He protects the universe from Greenback
Who wants to conquer the world.
His adventures are a challenge
Lived in danger of his life,
But that's the super hyper super mouse.
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Musical break
(Chorus)
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Continuing on the international theme, here's the opening lyrics of Count Duckula, in German! The translation is very close to the English version, actually. Both versions were kindly provided by Jano Rohleder of Duckula.de, so thanks Jano! (We're missing one bit, so if you're German and you know what it is, drop me a line).
Duckula OP (GERMAN)
Tief in Transsylvanien
Im Schloss der Vampire
Ist kein Vampir so nett zu dir wie
DUCKULA
Er beißt nicht Mensch noch Tier
Als vegetarischer Vampir
Und nie...(not understandable)...??
DUCKULA
Wollt ihr euch amüsieren
Vom Alltag euch kurieren
Dann bleibt hier
Denn gleich kommt
DUCKULA
"Graf" Duckula
- soviel Zeit muss sein
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Duckula Opening (TRANSLATION)
Deep in Transylvania
In the castle of the vampires
Is no Vampire as kind to you as
DUCKULA
He doesn't bite man nor beast
As a vegetarian vampire
And...(not understandable)...??
DUCKULA
Do you want to enjoy yourself,
Cure from everyday life?
Then stay here
Because right there will be
DUCKULA
"Count" Duckula
- so much time must be
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Back to English again for this traditional ditty, as sung by Ratty in an episode of The Wind in the Willows called The Yuletide Entertainment. This, along with the opening and ending lyrics on the main page, were supplied by a mysterious soul who calls himself Big Daddy Chorlton. Thank you, masked stranger.
All along the backwaters
Through the rushes tall
Ducks are a-dabbling
Uptails all.
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, yellow feet a-quiver
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river.
Slushy green undergrowth, where the loach swim
Here we keep our larder, cool and full and dim.
Everyone for what he likes, we like to be
Heads down, tails up, dabbling free!
High in the blue above, swift, swirl and call
And we're down a-dabbling
Dab dab dabbling
We're down dabbling, uptails all.
What's that you say? Rocking and rolling penguins? Absurd! But back in the mid 1990s, it apparently happened, and here's the proof. Huge apologies to our very dear friend Big Daddy Chorlton, who sent this to me ages ago. I should've put it up sooner, I'm a very bad girl.
Avenger Penguins musical episode, Rock and Roll
Penguins, music and lyrics by Jimmy Hibbert and Phil
Bush
Song #1: BIKE UP
Marlon 1st verse, Rocky 2nd verse and all join
in the chorus
When you're bored as a bullfrog in a bucket of bleach
As fed up as a ferret with the flu
When your chin is feeling weary
Feeling unamusicleary
Then there's only one cure
And what you've gotta do is
CHORUS
Bike up
Get your motor running, bike up
Head off down the road, bike up
Ain't nothing like it
Bike up, bike up, bike up
When you're feeling as lacklusture as a limpet with
maleria
As sick as a parrot with a peanut in her shoe
When things get really borin'
you won't hear me snorin'
'Cause I know the cure
So repeat it after me
CHORUS X 2
ROCKY - Steppin' up to the mike now is my goodest pal,
little Bluey Penguin, M C penguin in the house
((Bluey raps a verse of gibberish))
Got it little buddy, 1 2 3
Bike up
Get your motor running, bike up
Head off down the road, bike up
Ain't nothing like it
Bike up bike up bike up
BIKE UP
Song # 2: DOOM'S SONG, sung by Doom and Slime
Caractacus P Doom
The names on everybody's lips
Caractacus P Doom
Don't call me lard
Don't tell me that I'm mad
Just vicious, cruel and bad
Caractacus P Doom will rule the world
Caractacus P Doom
The world will be mine
Caractacus P Doom
Me mad, I'm fine
It's not megalomania
It's simply that I'm brainier
Than anybody else in all the world
Caractacus P Doom
The greatest being of all time
Caractacus P Doom
(And me, Harry Slime)
I may weigh a little more
Than the average but I'm sure
Caractacus P Doom will rule the world
((Doom plays one and a quarter bars of "I do like to be
beside the seaside" on a keyboard))
FINISH
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