Lyrics meme

[ivyfic]

Everybody's doing it! The lyrics meme.
Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

Many waters cannot quench love
Cut through the back woods of the Harrison farm
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
People are talkin'

God damn you woman! You fuckin' stabbed me!
Nicolas sailed for Palestine across the sunlit seas
Now is the solstice of the year
Blessed the one who all has hated and that is full of shame

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude!
Unto which of the angels said he at any time
She's got a smile that it seems to me

One dream in my heart
Skidemerink-a-dink-a-dink
You can read at your Bible
I got the stuff that you want

I adore thee, Mother Mary
I like to meow it meow it
Grieve not for me, my husband dear
All the places I've been make it hard to begin


Um… I don't think mine works. All the oratorios and musicals (and comic songs) kind of screw it up. I also seem to have quite a lot of religious music.

And I had to skip through twenty more instrumental, spoken word, or songs in foreign languages. On the plus side, I had completely forgotten that I have a bootleg copy of the Supernatural score, so...cool. Maybe I should shuffle more often. But I have 8,700 songs on this thing. It would take a while to get through.

The origins of the lyrics, for the curious:


Greater Love Hath No Man – Ireland
America High – Kane (yes, Christian Kane's band…shut up)
More Than A Feeling – Boston
Something to Talk About – Bonnie Raitt

Ode to an Accidental Stabbing – Evil Dead: The Musical
He journeys to Palestine from St. Nicolas – Benjamin Britten
Ring Out, Solstice Bells – Jethro Tull
Cycle II: Beatitudes of St. Isaac the Syrian from The Veil of the Temple – John Tavener (This was unbelievably hard to make out. Stupid boys choir and their lack of articulation.)

Rocket Man – Elton John
P**p*B****B**D****** – Flanders and Swann
Unto Which of the Angels from Messiah – Handel
Sweet Child O' Mine – Guns N Roses(as covered by the Dartmouth Aires)

This Nearly Was Mine – South Pacific
Skidemerink – sung by Aloha Campers
Quit Your Low Down Ways – Peter, Paul & Mary
Queen of the Night – performed by University of Oregon Divisi, don't know who it's by

On a Sea of Fleur-de-Lis – Richard Shindell
Kitty Techno – Wildcats
Backchat from a New England Grave from Witticisms and Lamentations from the Graveyard – Phillip Rhodes
Inside – Jethro Tull

Title from:
Bagged Me a Homer – Alf Clausen

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Tsk tsk "Sweet Child O'Mine" was not made famous by Aerosmith. Granted, it's been a while since Axl Rose was popular...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

As I think I pointed out, I only have the cover. I cannot be blamed for not knowing the original album. I can tell you what Aires album it came off of, though.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think I can still hold you responsible for this one. Dude, it's like one of Guns' greatest hits! It's like saying "Walk this Way" was by them instead of Aerosmith! Oy!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

(Also: totally kidding, in case I wasn't being sarcastic enough. I haven't a leg to stand on with this stuff either. Though, in my case, I usually get the song titles wrong.)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

See for me, until this moment, I could not have told you a single song by Guns n Roses. Aerosmith, on the other hand, I am a fan of. In the "I love the best of album" kind of way, though, not the "I have all their albums" kind of way. And since I've never heard the original, I can't be blamed for mistaking the lead singers for each other.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

:P! I did say I was teasing you.

I'm also a fan of Guns-N-Roses the same way you're a fan of Aerosmith, so it's not like I'm an expert on Axl Rose. (In fact, I think he's a douche.) Just that I thought cultural penetrance of GNR was pretty high, that's all.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

"the southwest wind blew bright and fair, seagulls hovered o'er the air, and spices scented the breeze." Now I have that running through my head.

Also, I ADORE that Ireland setting of "Many Waters." Yay!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Is it surprising that both of those are recordings of my choir's performances in the past couple of years? I try to get recordings of all my concerts, if possible. Since I've been singing in choirs since high school, that means I have a sizable collection.

My only problem with the Ireland was it kept reminding me of the Wilfred Owen poem (yes, I just googled that) "Dulce et decorum est."

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

I heart your choir. The text for the Ireland has always bugged me a little but then most religious texts bug me a little, so I tend to mostly ignore the content/implications and enjoy the poetry of them.