switching lyrics and melodys

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Micca
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:11 AM

Of course "my old mans a dust man" is good to "the British Grenadiers" tune.. and "Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do" the the tune of "Thine is the glory ( see the conquring hero comes)"

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: LR Mole
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:55 AM

"Hernando's Hideaway" is good with Frost's "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening", too: "Whose woods--these are--I think I know....."

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 02:50 PM

Here are some that popped into my head today:

Puff, the Magic Dragon - - Onward Christian Soldiers
Beethoven's 9th "Ode To Joy" - - various nursery rhymes, e.g., Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star, Mary Had A Little Lamb
How Can I Keep From Singing? - - Barbara Allen

And, via Garrison Keillor from his camp days as a youth, Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow - - Hernando's Hideaway

Blue Hawaii - - Wayfaring Stranger

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 18 Sep 01 - 10:20 PM

SOme of my pets are Jabberwocky sung to Ode to Joy; Clementine (sung to Babylon is Fallen), Clementine (sung to Deutschland Uber Alles and Clementine (sung to Saint Anne's Reel--the dance, not the recently-composed song)

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: English Jon
Date: 19 Sep 01 - 12:21 PM

Whorticulture sing Cotton mill girls with the following lyrics:

Space Oddity, Purple Hills, Waltzing Matilda, Bohemian Rhapsody, I'll tell me ma, My gang, Chicken on a raft etc..

EJ

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Genie
Date: 01 Oct 01 - 12:35 AM

Bringing In The Sheaves and Farmer In The Dell?

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Helen
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 06:59 PM

Refresh: because of this thread

Click here

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40170

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 08:32 PM

Any limerick, dirty or otherwise, can be sung to the tune of Blest Be The Tie That Binds.

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:36 PM

Just to tie up one loose end (how's that for a topological incongruity?), the song Ebbie was looking for, about the goat who ate a red shirt and then saved his own life by flagging down a train, is Bill Grogan's Goat.

And to provide a multicultural flavor, we used to sing the Hebrew hymn "Adon Olam" (which is in Long Meter, four lines of iambic tetrameter) to a number of different tunes. A big favorite when I was in high school in the late 60's was "Hiroshima" ("I Come and Stand at Every Door", by Nazim Hikmet) -- which, of course, meant that we were singing a Hebrew prayer to a tune used for an English translation of a Turkish poem, as also used by a Mexican-American folksinger for a Scottish ballad. (And I'm sure I'm missing some steps.) Long live the folk process!

If anyone is interested in the interchangeability of shape-note tunes and words, as well as the names of the different meters, here is The Sacred Harp Meter Index.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:53 PM

This was a good thread & I'm glad it got resurrected. While it's here, two adds--

Believe it or don't, "Gospel Hymns Old and New" contains "How Can I Keep from Singing?" set to the tune of "America" (Oh, Beautiful, for Spacious Skies). It ALMOST works; you have to fudge the last note of each line. That also means that America and Barbree Allen are interchangeable.

Also, Cumberland Gap and Shortnin' Bread, for those tradists who were not killed by Dylan. Sorry, couldn't resist. I plan to combine those two as countermelodies rendered on the 'courtship dulcimer.' That's just before I acquire a life. :)

CC

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Feb 02 - 10:57 PM

Found myself the other day singing John Barleycorn to the tune of an acapella version of Reynard The Fox I'd heard... I was pleasantly surprised how well the 2 seemed to go together that I think I'll work it up for my solo show...

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Genie
Date: 13 Apr 02 - 01:42 PM

Amazing Grace works well with Beethoven's "Freude, Freude" tune. You can also, with a wee bit o' tweakin', sing "Puff, The Magic Dragon" to that tune. And "America, The Beautiful" works with it, too.

Genie

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Genie
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 04:56 AM

I just realized that "Aura Lee" is interchangeable with either "Puff" or "'Onward, Christian Soldiers," too. So, too, pretty much, is Beethoven's "Freude, Freude."

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 08:02 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Margret RoadKnight
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 08:54 PM

I recorded "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun" with 4-piece electric blues band on this year's "WOMEN 'N BLUES" CD for the Australian label Full House Records....5 singers (including Jeannie Lewis & Wendy Saddington), 3 tracks each.

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Helen
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 08:04 AM

In case you non-Aussie Mudcatters don't know, Margaret RoadKnight, Wendy Saddington and Jeannie Lewis are *icons* of Australian music. (I can't put enough asterixes around the word "icons" to even begin to express what I mean. ) Way to go, Margaret!!!

Helen

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Margret RoadKnight
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 09:13 AM

You're too kind, Helen (well, extremely kind, anyway).
Appreciate the appreciation...... now if it just translates into sales.....
Cheers
Margret RoadKnight (yes, one A, and a capital K)

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Celtaddict
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 11:37 PM

We used to play this game driving, when my daughter was younger, and I have gotten quite hooked on it alone since then; any more goodies out there? "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" showed up on Ebbie's Getaway recordings to two separate tunes.
Seamus also sings virtually anything to the "Marine Corps Hymn."
A related song stunt (?) which my kids liked that first-time hearers often are baffled by, briefly: I have heard Cindy Mangsen sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" one note off, as in "take ME out to the ball GAME, take ME out with the crowd, BUY . . ." so the last line goes "it's one TWO THREE STRIKES you're out at the old b-a-l-l g-a-m-e" and stops abruptly without the last note.
Jerry Bryant sings one of the songs from Tolkien to some other familiar tune, possibly "The Fox Song" ("The fox went out on a chilly night, and he prayed to the moon to give him light"). Anyone know what song?

Subject: RE: switching lyrics and melodys
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:11 AM

I haven't gone all through it, but try The Frozen Logger to the tune of The Halls of Montezume and vice versa. I think they work(s).

Dave Oesterreich