If you go early enough to In Den Ouden Vogelstruys, a homey pub on the Vjithof (at No. 15), you might hear recorded Maastricht music, jolly sing-along-dance-along tunes in the local dialect.
On the TV, it has to be said it looks pretty good fun, with lots of jolly sing-songs and arts events, but no laborious sleeping around any more.
"I saw myself in a cosy restaurant, with jolly cooks singing love-songs as they broke eggs into the pan, and five solid meals a day," George Orwell writes in "Down and Out in Paris and London," before going on to describe, in witty, acerbic detail, the merciless demands and intractable hierarchies of hotel kitchens in the City of Light.
They're either tormented by unruly passions or else they're jolly good sports (singing and/or flying nuns, Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell).
With my belly full of baguette, cheese and hard cider, I even joined in when my husband began singing jolly traveling songs.
As the four porters, labeled "Public," staggered bug-eyed under this enormous weight, the bureaucrats did a fan dance, singing a jolly chorus: "Trust us, trust us".
Ford is drowning his sorrows in a bar when who should turn up but Nick Cave (composer of the exquisite soundtrack), wearing a bowler hat and a handlebar moustache, and singing a jolly folk song about "that dirty little coward" Robert Ford.
"For she's a jolly good fellow," sang the army of tennis enthusiasts.
The jacket (or versions of it — it's worth noting that costume designers routinely create multiples of each garment — it was even that way with Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz") is worn by Van Dyke's character in the memorable live action/animation scene in which his character Bert sings "Jolly Holiday" and dances it out with a passel of penguins.
And I'd lead jolly family sing-songs too, and perhaps even join a pop group.
