Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me) - Jonas Brothers
If you know only a handful of important people in Disney history, GEORGE BRUNS should be one of them. And it is today that we are celebrating his birthday with a cover of a song he wrote with X. Atencio in 1967.
George Bruns was a proud member of the Walt Disney Company from the 50s through the 70s. He composed many well-known Disney songs (Ballad of Davy Crockett, Love, Yo Ho) and wrote many movie scores including the wonderful adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty for the film of the same name.
Not only trained in classical, Bruns was also an expert jazz player and played trombone in the Disney employee's band FIREHOUSE FIVE PLUS TWO.
Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me) was written by Bruns with lyrics by Xavier Atencio in 1967 for the theme park ride. The song has become very popular, having recently been introduced to a new generation by being featured in the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy twenty years after Bruns' death!
This cover appears on DISNEYMANA 4 and is by the Disney pop/punk band JONAS BROTHERS. Due to the clean image of all Disney employees, the lyrics "Drink up me hearties" has been replaced with "Stand up me hearties."
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Labels: disneymania 4, jonas brothers, pirates of the caribbean, rock, yo ho
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"Due to the clean image of all Disney employees, the lyrics "Drink up me hearties" has been replaced with "Stand up me hearties.""
Well, that, and the fact that the Jonas Brothers are way, way underage.
(What can I say -- I teach middle school. There's been at least one Jonas Brothers-obsessed kid in every one of my classes for two years, now. It's worse than Miley Cyrus.)
I guess I can see the logic behind the word change, but really -- isn't drinking less offensive than pillaging, plundering, and ravaging?
I have a Mickey Mouse racing video game with this song on it (lame, I know), and a *ton* of the lyrics are changed. I agree with Sarah that the "drinking" line should have been the least of their worries...and this is coming from a teetotaler.
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