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single, 2024
Written by Irving Berlin, 1924
The Giants treat this hundred-year-old song with respect, letting the fantastic rhyme scheme ("I want to peep / Through the deep / Tangled wildwood / Counting sheep / 'Til I sleep / Like a child would") speak for itself. I love the interior rhyme and multi-word rhymes that the old masters of the era, like Berlin and Cole Porter, used. I'm not sure, because I'm not very familiar with the Crosby or Monroe versions, but I believe that the Johns have cheekily added some lyrics about Mr. Dickens and Omar Khayyam. Their lyrics ("I hate to hurry through life and worry...") fit in wonderfully to the existing lyrics, so either they're using a full lyric that didn't get recorded, or they're masters of the craft themselves.
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