Word Fugitives
Atlantic, The, April, 2002 by Barbara Wallraff
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>Who knew that the lyrics to "Amazing Grace" can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song? ("Amazing grace! How sweet the sound / That saved a wretch like me! / I once was lost, but now am found; / Was blind, but now I see." "Ta-dum-dum-dah, ta-dee-dee-dee / Ta-dum-dum-dah-dah-dee," etc.) Well, the Reverend Monsignor Richard Soseman, of Princeville, Illinois, knew it, and shared the information with Word Fugitives in connection with our December request for a word that would mean "taking a lovely song and changing one or two words to make it vulgar." This practice is similar to one that has from time to time claimed Soseman's attention—namely, "taking sacred lyrics and singing them to secular tunes." Soseman lamented, "Once heard this way, they never sound the same again." A number of other readers sent in examples of vulgarized lyrics (thanks so much, folks!), thereby ...
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