Boys' Names Beginning with Vowels


21 comments:

Sarah said...

Wandda looked all around this town and all she found was Earl

Dixie Chicks

Sally said...

When Eddie said he
Didn't like his teddy
You knew he was a no-good kid

from "Rocky Horror"

HoosierNan said...

Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder!
Fighting all who rob or plunder!
Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!

--Cartoon theme song. (I know it is a stretch on the topic . . . .)

Sarah said...

I can call you Betty and Betty when you call me you can call me Al

HoosierNan said...

You can be like faithful Aaron
Holding up the prophet's hands.

--Hymn about "if you can't be great, just do something within your power."

Sandra Dodd said...

Adam catch'd Eve by the furbelow
And that's the oldest catch I know

(a musical dirty joke that takes so much explaining now that people don't sing catches or wear furbeloughs, but it was a response to "What's the oldest catch you know?" and a furbelow was a ruffly decoration on 18th century clothes, and "the fur below" being, you know... *nasty*)

Anonymous said...

We're so sorry, Uncle Albert
We're so sorry if we caused you any pain.

snowhere said...

Prince Ali, mighty is he, Ali Ababwa
Strong as ten regular men definitely...

from "Aladdin"

Sandra Dodd said...

Sing, Oliver; that's an order from your commander in chief

The sun'll come up tomorrow...

(Annie, partly spoken, but in a song)

HoosierNan said...

Have you seen my good friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he has gone?
He freed a lot of people,
But it seems like the good die young.

--Abraham, Martin, and John, a 1960s protest/remembrance song about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Margaret said...

Hey Eddie,
Can you lend me a few bucks?
Tonight, can you give me a ride.

Jungle Land - Bruce Springsteen

Sandra Dodd said...

Elvis, Elvis, let me be
Keep that pelvis far from me

"Sandra Dee," from Grease

Sally said...

Father Abraham had many sons
And many sons had Father Abraham

Sunday School wiggly song

HoosierNan said...

With a load of iron ore
46 thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.

--"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot

HoosierNan said...

And he played upon a ladle,
And his name was Aiken Drum.

Sandra Dodd said...

Ezekiel saw that wheel a-rollin'
Way up in the middle of the air

Traditional kids' Bible class thing

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

What's it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about
When you sort it out, Alfie?

(Bachrach & David)

Shanona Ryder said...

Sister Susie, brother John
Martin Luther, Phil and Don
Uncle Ernie, Uncle Ian
open the door
let em in...

abi said...

Oliver's army is here to stay,
Oliver's army is on their way,
And I would rather be anywhere else but here today

Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello

Ellen (nursescrub) said...

And if you want to hear
That Swanee River
Played in ragtime,
Come on and hear
Come on and hear
Alexander's Ragtime Band

(Irving Berlin)

Bob Collier said...

His name was Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Ernie, Benny Hill