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Actually this would qualify sara but it may be a little heavy
:D


lyrically?

Rain by the Beatles
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Love Hurts ( Graham Parson and Emmylou Harris)
Coming In From The Cold - Bob Marley
Brain Damage - Pink Floyd
Carrickfergus - (Van Morrison version)

that's off the top of my head
 
Sara Crewe said:
Anyway, I wanted to know what your all time favourite songs are based mainly on lyrics.

Thanks,

SC
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another off-the-top-of-the-head list:

America - Paul Simon
Fish and Bird - Tom Waits
On the Nickel - Tom Waits
Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
Deportee - Woody Guthrie
 
Sara, I think Tom Waits is an excellent choice for lyrics, and would probably really keep the kids' attention as well. Here's this:

Misery - I think I've played this one before, actually. The video's a hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-u2X5EaGY
AND it has monkeys in it.


Here's Chocolate Jesus. The immaculate confection. I friggin' LOVE this song. And his riff is wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw

And talk about poetic language:
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Managed to find it on Fernwood 2Nite, an absolute classic show.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0E7x3Nqys

Eggs & Sausage. Hell of a poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETc80QfODkQ


Don't tell your kids this part, but this is the one that makes me say, "I would fuck this man in a heartbeat."
Downtown Train:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLA6AiZlVw

Guess I did a set today after all...

bijou
 
I knew you would have some favourites.

Thanks, peoples. I'll check them all out when I get a second.
 
Sara Crewe said:
I have a selfish question. My classes are trying to look at one poem or song every day. The theory behind it being that you cannot appreciate something if you have only every heard one or two of whatever it is.

Anyway, I wanted to know what your all time favourite songs are based mainly on lyrics.

Thanks,

SC
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I generally don't listen to lyrics, so I'm just noodlin' around here. Take these suggestions appropriately as so much, well, crap. Nonetheless, here's some ideas:
  • Dove sono, i bei momenti, from Mozart/DaPonte's Le nozze di Figaro. The important part is the very last section of what I quoted, and unless you listen to the music, preferably performed by a competent soprano, you won't get it. If you get it right, the thing is absolutely heartrending. For my money, the most beautiful and heartbreaking aria in opera. Though it's not like I'm some expert or something.
  • The Major-General's song from Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. With Cat-like Tread is kind of the wyf's and my theme-song, but this'll do for yer purposes, maybe.
  • My (maybe) all-timer favorite Neil Young song: Don't Be Denied. Yeah yeah yeah, rock lyrics. Not 'zactly Stephen Sondheim.
  • Speaking of... Hard to pick one, but how about The Jet Song. Yeah!
  • Cole Porter has incredibly clever lyrics. My favorite is I Get a Kick Out of You, however clumsily misspelled this transcription is.
  • Oh, yeah. Like Gil Scott-Heron too.
 
unpredictablebijou said:
you know it makes me unutterably hot when you speak japanese. Stop it this instant.

bj
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honto ni sumimasen
It shan't happen again
;)



and just for you
Puffy amiyumi

Think they listened to a lot of E.L.O. and The Cars?
 
Sara Crewe said:
I quite honestly thought I was the only person in the world with a copy of that Carlene Carter song.

It's so nice to know there are others...
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I don't actually have a copy of that song. I was, frankly, just looking at Carlene's legs. They are nice legs, 'specially in those dark nylons and that short skirt. Woo hoo. I like (girl) legs, y'know.

Or maybe you don't. Don't matter much. It's my thing, not yours, after all.

She has nice eyes, too. Big teeth. But it's the legs.

I am so shallow.
 
Tzara said:
I don't actually have a copy of that song. I was, frankly, just looking at Carlene's legs. They are nice legs, 'specially in those dark nylons and that short skirt. Woo hoo. I like (girl) legs, y'know.

Or maybe you don't. Don't matter much. It's my thing, not yours, after all.

She has nice eyes, too. Big teeth. But it's the legs.

I am so shallow.
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If liking body parts makes one shallow, then I am a tiny puddle on an urban sidewalk.

bj
 
Ben Dewberry's Final Run - Jimmie Rodgers

CAPO: 1st FRET/KEY: C#/PLAY: C
[C] Ben Dewberry was a brave engineer
He told his fireman don't you ever [C7] fear
[C] All I want is the water and coal
Put your head out the window, watch the drivers roll
Watch the [F] drivers roll - watch the drivers [C] roll
Put your head out the window; watch the [G7] drivers [C] roll.

Ben Dewberry said before he died
Two more roads that he wanted to ride
His fireman asked him what could they be
Said the old Northeastern and the A and B
The A and B - he said the A and B
It's the old Northeastern and the A and B.

On the fatal morning it began to rain
Around the curve come a passenger train
Ben Dewberry was the engineer
With the throttle wide open and without any fear
He didn't have no fear - he didn't have no fear
He had her runnin' wide open without any fear.

Ben looked at his watch - shook his head
We may make Atlanta but we'll all be dead
The train was flyin' by the troublin' switch
Without any warning then she took the ditch
Yea! she went in the ditch - well, she took the ditch
Without any warning - then she took the ditch.

The big locomotive leaped from the rail
Ben never lived to tell that awful tale
His life was ended and his work was done
When Ben Dewberry made his final run
He made his final run - he made his final run
When Ben Dewberry made his final run.
 
unpredictablebijou said:
If liking body parts makes one shallow, then I am a tiny puddle on an urban sidewalk.

bj
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Hey, it's only shallow if you always imagine the body parts not connected to the rest of the person.


Well, that's my rule anyway and I'm stickin' to it.



Carlene does have nice legs. They go with the song.


Belated thanks for Tung and Tzara's suggestions. I kiss you on both cheeks.
 
Eluard said:
Great stuff — I love Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac myself. Particularly Oh Well and the Then Play On album. Awesome.
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You are my age, aren't you?

How :) sad.
 
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