" I love the TenderCrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch..."

[GlassJaw]

I've found turning off the television works marvels. If you can get rid of it all together, kudos to you.

And not be able to watch Lots? Are you nuts?!

 

[reveal]

And I hate the song in your sig.... I really, really hate it. With a passion

And it's really a Simon and Garfunkle song.

 

[ssampier]

The bad thing is I was trying to fall asleep so I had the TV on sleep timer, then that commercial came on. Now I have Tendercrisp bacon cheddar ranch dreams

 

[VirgilCaine]

I agree with both extremes above - I do not like it as a commerical, but as a Marketing Professor I have to admire the risk that Burger King took in making and promoting it. The costuming alone makes it stand out, and the use of a familiar children's song for the jingle helps a lot too.

That's a children's song? That's a hobo song...knife fights, eating beans cooked over the fire, leaving funny signs in fences and trees, avoiding train police...

 

[Torm]

That's a children's song? That's a hobo song...knife fights, eating beans cooked over the fire, leaving funny signs in fences and trees, avoiding train police...

Ring Around The Rosies is about The Black Plague, for cryin' out loud - and it is pretty obvious what London Bridge is about. LOTS of children's songs are about horrible things. Rockabye Baby on the treetop, and then the baby falls down - what the huh?!

 

[Torm]

And it's really a Simon and Garfunkle song.

I told him already, but he hasn't fixed his sig.

 

[Greylock]

Harry McClintock wrote the lyrics, not sure about the tune itself.

This would make for an interesting research project for someone with extra time on their hands. *looks around*

The only thing I really know is that the song is more of a "humorous" political tract than a simple railroad song. Of course, many hobo songs are both, but I have always associated "Big Rock Candy Mountain" with radical socialistic movements. And I'm almost 100% sure it's older than Harry McClintock.

 

[Krieg]

And I'm almost 100% sure it's older than Harry McClintock.

I should probably have been a lot more specific.

Before Harry McClintock the words of the song varied constantly, as with most folk music the lyrics changed to suit the whim of the singer. Harry McClintock's version of the lyrics are the ones that are almost universally used today, and he is generally attributed as being the "official" author of the song (and he claimed as much to death).

The tune itself is possibly even older than the Big Rock Candy lyrics in any form.

Ring Around The Rosies is about The Black Plague, for cryin' out loud - and it is pretty obvious what London Bridge is about. LOTS of children's songs are about horrible things. Rockabye Baby on the treetop, and then the baby falls down - what the huh?!

But like many songs that may have ended up used as such, Big Rock Candy Mountain was not meant to be a children's song.

 

[JoeBlank]

Ring Around The Rosies is about The Black Plague, for cryin' out loud - and it is pretty obvious what London Bridge is about. LOTS of children's songs are about horrible things. Rockabye Baby on the treetop, and then the baby falls down - what the huh?!

As long as we are clearing up misconceptions, do a quick search on snopes.com for Ring Around the Rosie.

 

[der_kluge]

Here's a link.

http://www.whoyoutalkinat.com/BKHootie_Long.mov

That site has a 15 second, 30 second, and 60 second version. The 60 second version is the best.

Replace ".mov" with ".wmv" if you want to use Windows Media Player. This is Quicktime. I couldn't get the wmv to load. Might be my Firefox, though, I don't know.