Tor-e-a-dor

DESCRIPTION: "Tor-e-a-dor, Don't spit on the floora, Use the cuspidora, That is what it's fora."
AUTHOR: unknown (music by Georges Bizet, 1838-1875)
EARLIEST DATE: 1980 (Solomon-ZickaryZan)
KEYWORDS: humorous derivative
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Solomon-ZickaryZan, p. 115, "Tor-a-a-dor" (1 text)
NOTES [42 words]: This is of course based on the Toreador's Song from Bizet's "Carmen"; it seems to me that the Solomon-ZickaryZan version adds some unstressed syllables just to make a foreign "accent," and I suspect there are longer versions, but I can't prove it. - RBW
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File: ZiZa115D

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