Chapter 1 - Signifigance
Awkward song caroling is a form of entertainment performed by fellow friends in class, ussually after an exam, most commonly the SA2/PSLE. The songs are ussually funny and should appeal to them as 'catchy'. It can just simply be inovative songs created purely by a student and has an original tune to it, or it can also be well-known songs with the lyrics edited to be made funny.
Chapter 2 - The Songs
There are many songs which have been learnt from level to level, passed down to juniors and lasting for semesters. Some songs may have even been imported from other schools, such as Henry Park and the ACS family. So many of these songs are still being remembered in the school grounds. Here are just a few;
Jingle Bells of Death (sung in the tune of 'Jingle Bells')
Dashing through the snow
In a pair of broken skis.
Down the hills we go
Crashing into trees!
The snow is turning red.
I think I'm almost dead!
Send me to the hospital
Before I loose my head!
(Chorus)
Jingle bells! Jingle bells!
Santa Clause is dead!
Mighty Beans and Pow'r Rangers
Shot him in the head!
Barbie Doll! Barbie Doll!
Tried to save his life
But teddy bear from Mexico
Burried him alive!
(name) Farted (sung in the tune of 'In the Jungle')
Awimbawei (X8)
(name) farted!
The eathquake parted!
The whole world smelt so bad!
In half an hour
It had the power
To burn Mt. Fuji flat.
Ah-eiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, he, e, e, e awambawei! (X2 [optional])
(name) farted!
The Plague restarted!
Killing theose men who dare
To smell the odour
But turned 'to powder
'Cause acid filled the air!
Ah-eiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, he, e, e, e awambawei! (X2 [optional])
(name) farted!
The gas departed
And flew out into space.
It then caught fire
And Darth's Empire
Burned off without a trace!
Ah-eiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, he, e, e, e awambawei! (X2 [optional])
(name) farted!
But now subsided
So there will be no pain!
But wait, he/she's having
Another urging
So lets sing this song again!
Ah-eiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, he, e, e, e awambawei! (X4 [optional])
(Repeat song [optional])
Students of (class) (sung in the tune of 'National Day March')
Oh, we are the Students of (class)!
We are (class) Students!
We protect the Classroom of (class)
From invaiding men!
Oh, we are the Students of (class)!
We are (class) Students!
And we'll always fight together
As we march out hand in hand!
And as we, the Students of (class)!
We, the (class) Students!
We will help each other to try
To study for that pass!
And lead by the ('Class Rep'/'Chairman') of (class)
By the (class) ('Class Rep'/'Chairman')
We shall stive for victory
As the Patriots of Our Class!
Chapter 3 - Fading Tradition
Although concidered fun by many, awkward song caroling is slowly fading away from the Nanyang Society. Now it's a lot more common for people to be singing real songs instead of made-up or spoofed ones. It may be concidered singing, but it still isn't awkward singing. The awkwardness is the thing which gives the enjoyment and humour. So far, it's not fading away at noticable speeds, but you never know when one day, no one would know how to make fun of a song.
No one.
Additional Chapter I - Popularity in other regions
It was through this custome that I found out how different schools may be more advanced than other schools in other ways. And I have a personal experience to back that up.
Back as a Primary 4 student, I was the one who brought 'Jingle Bells of Doom' to Nanyang. And when I thought the fellow classmates the lyrics of the song, the song was a popular hit. Seriously. Back then, the only version known of the song was just the one involving Batman and Robin. But when I arrived into ACS(I) as a Freshman, the same song sung to an AC boy, as I've found out, is just as ordinary as singing the ABCs to a well-educated University student. The song itself just seemed so standard, and they had even more greater songs created from where they came from!
But when I once showed them a Rubber Band Pistol, which is easily a familiar sight to Nanyang and Henry Park people, they couldn't work out how to even use the thing properly, stating that they were still in the primitive ways of the Paper Pellet (Using one's hand arched into a 'C' and putting a rubber band in between to create a 'bow' to shoot paper pallets, which act like arrows).
So getting back to my theory, different schools have their own customes, so just because a school may be better than another school in one way, it can be vice versa in other issues.
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