Taco Bell, fold the corners in well

[kjn]

A fellow filker noted that they worked at Taco Bell and sang work shanties there. Taco Bell and sailors' songs combined into something unholy here, based on my infamous poem on Tumblr and Evert Taube's lullaby Byssan lull, based on Fiskeskärsmelodin.

||: Taco Bell, fold the corners in well
Three people are coming down the road :||
The first with missing eye
The second with red hair
The third is lying in the gutter

Comments

[culfinriel]

Shanties are work songs, often for repetitive tasks, #seemslegit

[kjn]

Except the melody used here is most commonly used for lullabies…

[canyonwalker]

One with a missing eye, one with red hair, one in the gutter? Sounds more Wal Mart than Taco Bell. 🤣

[kjn]

I'm not up to the minutiae of US food or supermarket chains. (Except a bit about Waffle House.)

[canyonwalker]

Wal Mart is a discount department store that also sells groceries under the same roof now. It's been considered for years to attract a lower class of clientele than other "big box" stores, like Target. It also has a reputation for employing people with weak grooming and social skills as greeters at its front doors. Thus, missing eyes, dyed hair, and lying unconscious in the gutter could describe either its customers or its staff.

[culfinriel]

Stretch pants. Needs stretch pants for full stereotyping.

[kjn]

Heh. It could also describe the Norse gods Odin, Thor, and Loki.

[canyonwalker]

Ah, as in the line from the prayer, "Greatfather Odin, may his beard be ever soaked in beer, not vomit."