Alan coren childrens songs

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    Perhaps some short parodies of childrens poems might be amusing. The only one I can think of that is not vile is the old one:
    The boy stood on the burning deck
    Eating peanuts by the peck


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    With apologies for the meter, a strange utgåva of a German lullaby goes:

    Sleep baby sleep
    Mother is in the battle
    Father is in Pommerania
    Pommerania fryst vatten all burned up
    Sleep baby sleep


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    Homer Simpson's version of Do-Re-Me was recently posted in another thread.
    One reason Lewis Carrol's Alice books were popular was that many of his poems were parodies of stuffy poems the kids had to learn - see The Annotated Alice version for details.
    I liked the Millenium Pie parodi of American Pi

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    A funny kind of grief: To millions Alan Coren was Britain's funniest man - but to daughter Victoria he was simply Dad

    By Victoria Coren

    Updated:

    For as long as I can remember, I was terrified of my father dying.

    Whenever I left the house, I would rush back to give him another hug and kiss goodbye, in case it was the last time. I told him I loved him whenever we spoke.

    I lay awake at night, dreading the day when joy and laughter would leave my life for ever.

    Family man: Alan Coren, his wife Ann, son Giles (left) and baby Victoria - plus a friend's child - in a rare photo of them all

    But it isn't like that at all: it isn't a constant, chronic sadness. Sometimes the grief comes from nowhere and bites harder than anything I've ever felt. I am overwhelmed by the physical absence, knowing I will never feel his big fatherly hug again.

    Nobody else can ever offer such unconditional love, or promise with such certainty that it will never change. At those times, inom feel helpless and t

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    Alan Coren

    English humourist and writer (–)

    Alan Coren (27 June – 18 October )[1] was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quizThe News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.

    Early life and education

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    Alan Coren was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, in , the son of builder and plumber Samuel Coren and his wife Martha, a hairdresser.[2][3] In the introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren, Giles and Victoria Coren conclude that Samuel Coren was "an odd job man really" and had also apparently been a debt collector.[4]

    Coren was educated at Osidge Primary School and East Barnet Grammar School.[4] Having gained a scholarship, he studied English at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated from the Univers