Can anyone identify what this might have been, or was Doohan just making it up as he went along?
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Scotty's_Tune
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Scotty's_Tune
Scotty's song
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I don't remember the song itself, but I remember finding it very embarrassing when I was 11.
I haven't seen TAS in a long time, but I'm expecting the DVD set to show up here any day now.
I haven't seen TAS in a long time, but I'm expecting the DVD set to show up here any day now.
Well, he was sort of not-in-his-right-mind at the time.
Doohan?
Scotty, the fictional character. Wasn't this the episode where all the males were affected by alien sirens? Or am I thinking of a different one?
Kor
Welshy.
I just figured it'd be easier for him to pull a song he knew out of the air than gibberish...but maybe he was trying to sound drunk with vaguely-placed amour and so it didn't particularly matter.
We all know Doohan couldn't yodel.
Allow me to quote Philip J. Fry:
"WELSHY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I always thought it was mumbled English.
EDIT:
Boop:
"Nay duy ras deer yon over win, yon dee, yon dris, yon teka bron;
Oh, bo the ras, the dalar las, thy hyohono.
Ag wen and god rode ayzig an ay tro."
It could almost be some sort of pidgin. This is the 23rd century after all.
Here's the English I can kinda hear:
"....dear, yon over wi(nd/th), yon..., yon..., yon take abroa[d];
Oh,....the...the dollar lass, thy....
A[nd] when and God(expecting "gone") rode...and I t[h]row."
EDIT:
Boop:
"Nay duy ras deer yon over win, yon dee, yon dris, yon teka bron;
Oh, bo the ras, the dalar las, thy hyohono.
Ag wen and god rode ayzig an ay tro."
It could almost be some sort of pidgin. This is the 23rd century after all.
Here's the English I can kinda hear:
"....dear, yon over wi(nd/th), yon..., yon..., yon take abroa[d];
Oh,....the...the dollar lass, thy....
A[nd] when and God(expecting "gone") rode...and I t[h]row."
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Keith DeCandido said in his review over at Tor.com that it's a Welsh ballad, "Yr Hufen Melyn" ("The Yellow Cream") by Eifion Wyn.
It does have a name? Can you link to that review?
Thanks. 
I thought this thread might be about Scotty's personal "theme" that we heard in episodes like "The Trouble with Tribbles" (when he explains to Kirk why he punched the Klingons) and "By Any Other Name" (when he was getting the Kelvin drunk to steal the belt device).
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