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Thread #55805 Message #3135253
Posted By: mbj130
14-Apr-11 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: ADD: You Can't Be a Pirate (Don Freed)
Subject: RE: Reg/Add: You Can't Be a Pirate (Don Freed)
The songs above are really creative uses of the pirate theme for a song. I'd love to hear it performed live.
Another suggestion. I find that you can take the idea, modify it, and have quite a bit of fun with it. With the right audience, you can use the style of a limerick. For example, use the words in the notes above about
"he fell on his cutlass,
And rendered him nutlass ..."
Great creative use of the language!
another one I just made up:
A pirate who bragged his was large.
"It gives the young girls quite a charge."
He took off his pants
And the girls stole a glance
And all they could say was just "Argh."
For music, it's pretty simple to find a chord progression that will fit. When I was in my 20's, we had a limerick song that had a silly chorus line (my source was Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts from their fraternity concert days. They had a marvelously bawdy vinyl album.) Chorus was:
"Hot Nuts! Hot Nuts!
You get 'em from the peanut man.
Hot Nuts! Hot Nuts
You use 'em any way that you can"
Then a limerick then the chorus, and another limerick, etc. You can also interpret non-pirate limericks, like:
There once was a coupe named Kelly
Who went around belly to belly
Because in their haste
They used library paste
Instead of petroleum jelly
ETC