The Bride of the Song Meme

[ivyfic]

Doing that meme got me to thinking of all the weird crap I've had to sing. Rather than make you try and guess - because so not happening - here are some of the wierdest lyrics I've had to sing

For the harp rhymes are lawn fawn and the like.
Rejoice in the Lamb – Benjamin Britten

Fix my car. Cure my cancer. Bring me sexy ballet dancer to hold near and romance her. Is that too much to ask?
Sun Rings – Terry Riley

Vermin eaten saints with moldy breath, unwashed legions with the ways of Death
General Booth Enters into Heaven – Charles Ives

Woe to them who draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin, as it were, with a cart rope. (How exactly do you sin with a cart rope? Yes, I know that's not what it means.)
The Peacable Kingdom – Randall Thompson

And this is just the English stuff, and just from the last year and a half.

Comments

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Ah, Charles Ives. Why are you so weird?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Dunnow. Am I?

And the Ives lyrics are not by Ives, they're from a poem of the same name about General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

No, no, that comment was addressed to Charles Ives. "Charles Ives, why are you so weird?"

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when your father is in a band. Let that be a lesson to you.