Comments on: “…cast into dungeons dark, dank and donk.” http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/cast-into-dungeons-dark-dank-and-donk/ david cairns Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/cast-into-dungeons-dark-dank-and-donk/#comment-21841 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:11:21 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=10502#comment-21841 “Cast into dungeons dark, dank and donk,
All hope of freedom gone,
Chained to the wall by the nose teeth and ears,
Three for the price of one (laughter).”

Fiona tells me these are the fill lyrics, and the line belongs to Spike Milligan and not Wallace Greenslade. It’s from the Goon Show Robin Hood special.

]]> By: jadean http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/cast-into-dungeons-dark-dank-and-donk/#comment-21840 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:05:16 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=10502#comment-21840 ‘Dark, dank and donk’ was a phrase that passed into our family’s vocabulary when I was a kid, but I didn’t know until now it originated with the Goons. My Dad was especially tickled by it, but I seem to recall him singing it. Was it ever a line in a song?

]]> By: mmedin http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/cast-into-dungeons-dark-dank-and-donk/#comment-21839 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:16:20 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=10502#comment-21839 Well, when he finally got to “You could not be me! I would have been very relieved if I were there. Seeing him in the ’50s and later, a little of him goes a long way.

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