Subject: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 23 Oct 10 - 03:44 PM SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 Time once again to sharpen your Qwerty and write songs for the all-new Song Challenge! 2.0. And here's today's story: It's a Jungle Out There: Thieves in Chicken and Gorilla Suits Steal Bike (Oct. 12) – A Long Island, N.Y., teenager's bike was stolen by two gorillas and a chicken. The Associated Press reports that the young man was riding along Route 25A early Monday afternoon when three people dressed in animal costumes approached him. These weren't folks out for an early trick-or-treat. Suffolk County police confirm that one of the ape-suited crooks slugged the kid in the head, knocking him off the bike. The chicken bandit then rode off on the bike while the two apes ran away. ---------------------------- Okay, is that weird enough? Have at it Challengees! |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Georgiansilver Date: 24 Oct 10 - 02:59 AM In the style of Chuck Berry... Ridin' along in my automobile. Ridin' along on by wonderful bike, Is one of those things I really like. But out on Long Island New York today, I had my transport taken away. Two apes and a chicken passed my way, They were quite large I have to say. One ape then hit me on the head, And left me lying there for dead. I guess my injuries weren't too bad, But to lose my bike makes me so sad. The cops just don't know what to do, Methinks they're searching the farms and zoo!!!!!! Not an easy subject to put to song.................. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Amos Date: 24 Oct 10 - 10:36 AM I bet those guys were working for Chongo. Coupla them East Side gorillas picking up extra pocket change on the side. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Flash Company Date: 24 Oct 10 - 10:43 AM Shades of Tommy Handley enter my brain! Chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck I've just had a chicken, Come and pinch my bike, Chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck, rode off like the dickens Now I've got to hike, To be mugged by two apes would be bad enough, But whatever can you say, When you see chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck, a bloody great big chicken Ride your favorite mountain bike away! FC |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Flash Company Date: 24 Oct 10 - 10:51 AM Miscounted the Chucks there, to fit the original tune of 'Have you seen my chickens?' they should come in batches of eight! FC |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 25 Oct 10 - 12:16 AM Brand New Bike (with apologies to Melanie Safka) I rode my bicycle through the park Monday last Don't ride too slow, and I don't ride too fast I saw a rustling in the brush ahead of me I slowed way down to see what I could see Chorus Oh I saw an angry pair of roving apes Jump from the brush at me I thought that I could get away But a chicken swung at me I fell off of my bike and then The chicken rode it away Oh I saw an angry pair of roving apes They stole my bike that day I sat there bruised and didn't know what to do Would cops believe me or think I was a screw? It almost seems I should just give up and hike But that damned chicken stole my g-- d---ed new bike (repeat chorus) I brushed my clothes off and I swallowed my pride Hoping the cops wouldn't think that I lied I told my tale and they clucked their tongues at me If I catch that bird it will be fricasseed (repeat chorus) |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 25 Oct 10 - 07:51 AM mousethief, in spite of your tight schedule, you obviously couldn't resist earning the Golden Bicycle Bell, which I have the privilege to hand over to you in the name of the Lurkers' Society. Best wishes for your daughter's wedding, may all pestering mice be stolen from her and her husband. Having read your contribution, we are confidently looking forward to the CHALLENGE being back to normal by the end of the week. Have a good time! |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 25 Oct 10 - 09:30 AM With apologies to the late Syd Barrett I had a bike, you could ride it if you like It had a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could, but a chicken stole it You're the kind of gorillas that won't fit into my world I'll give you anything, everything just don't kill me It grabbed me by the nape while a damn dirty ape Hit me on the head, and knocked me down and ground me into the black top Why can you never find a cop, when you really need one You're the kind of gorillas that won't fit into my world I'll give you anything, everything just don't kill me Now I got a bump, a rather nasty lump Concussion, contusions that really really make my head ache Oh for heaven's sake, I think I'm going to throw up You're the kind of gorillas that won't fit into my world I'll give you anything, everything just don't kill me If I should decide to take another ride I'll make that run with my shotgun loaded up with birdshot Guess who's going in the pot, that's right, that chicken You're the kind of gorillas that won't fit into my world I'll give you anything, everything just don't kill me |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Trapper Date: 25 Oct 10 - 02:19 PM This song is NOT to be confused with "GHOST CHICKENS IN THE SKY", which you may have heard at youth camp... - Trapper BROAST ROBBERS Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones New Lyrics: Trapper (Al Boyce) 10/25/2010 A paper boy went bicycling one dark and windy day His trusty Schwinn he pedaled as he went upon his way When all at once a six foot bird with wattles and a comb Came strutting on the sidewalk - to block his route to home Cock-a-doodle doooo... (etc - rooster sounds) Broast Robber strutting by! He spun a cookie quickly, and turned his bike around His back wheel shot out gravel as it dug into the ground Dismayed he was as he pumped hard to retreat from the bird He saw two apes had blocked his path - and this is what he heard: OOO-oooh AAAH AHH Ahh AHH AHH (etc - monkey sounds) Monkey Biz blocked my ride! He tried to ride on by them, but one slugged him in the head He flew from off his bicycle, and lay there as though dead The other grabbed his trusty Schwinn, and the capon strutted near With his chicken legs he straddled, the bike he commandeered! Cock-a-doodle doooo... (etc - rooster sounds) Broast Robber biking by! The monkeys scattered northward and the chicken made tracks south They left the paperboy there, bikeless, with a swollen mouth There is no rhyme or reason, no moral for to tell Unless, if chased by chickens... or apes, then bike like hell! Cock-a-doodle doooo... OOO-oooh AAAH AHH Ahh AHH... Broast Robber biking by! |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 25 Oct 10 - 07:44 PM Well done! A psychedelic Silver BLOB to Neil D for the rhetorical: Hit me on the head, and knocked me down and ground me into the black top Why can you never find a cop, when you really need one And a ghostly BLOB to Trapper (Al Boyce) for the eerie: When all at once a six foot bird with wattles and a comb Came strutting on the sidewalk - to block his route to home Keep up the good work, Challengees! |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: MMario Date: 26 Oct 10 - 09:33 AM Honest, Officer What I tell you is true You think I'm crazy I'm not, I'm telling you Two gorillas and a chicken it was that gave me a lickin' Then gorillas beat feet while the hen took a seat and rode off on my bicycle too! (tune - more or less Bicycle built for two) |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Amos Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:32 AM
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Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Trapper Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:00 PM LOL Amos! What an Epic! And MMario - great mModel for brevity! - Al |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:03 PM A motive emerges! And Silver Blob emerges! A hilarious one for Amos, and the sad-but-true: We'd have gone for a brew, but we hadn't no dough, And they don't give free beer to gorillas, you know. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 26 Oct 10 - 02:59 PM Ack! I forgot to give MMario his Silver BLOB. A Gibson Girl BLOB to MMario for the tear-jerking: Then gorillas beat feet while the hen took a seat and rode off on my bicycle too! |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Trapper Date: 26 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM Geez Mousethief, don't you have a WEDDING to go to or something?? ;-D |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 26 Oct 10 - 06:44 PM In just under an hour, yes. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Matthew Edwards Date: 27 Oct 10 - 02:44 AM I hope the wedding went well, and I'm sure all Challengees, both regular and irregular, as well as members of the Lurker's Society, will wish the new couple every happiness for the future. In a rare display of good taste the Challengees have restrained themselves from composing an epithalamium on "Mousethief's Daughter's Wedding", but I am sure Challengees will soon revert to their usual lyrical celebrations of the worst excesses of human and animal behaviours. There are some excellent examples above, but after all these years I'm grateful to have discovered not just one, but two, answers to the age-old question:- "Why did the chicken cross the road?" 1) To steal a bicycle 2) To join a band of urban Matthew |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 29 Oct 10 - 12:48 AM The wedding was a living Hell but now it's over. The bride was ... um ... challenging. But now she's married and can send out hand-written thank-you notes and apologies. Worst excesses of human behaviours, indeed! I could easily whip up a brief article on the wedding and the run-up to it, and set it as next week's challenge. But I shan't because I'm a loyal dad. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: GUEST,Ceto Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:31 AM The wedding was a living Hell but now, thank God, it's over. The bride was not resolved that well, we almost had to shove her. The bride, she was, um, challenging, indulging in excesses, but now she wears the golden ring and must clean up the messes. Some juicy details I could add for taunting vers'fication, but then, I am a loyal dad, resisting the temptation ... (as opposed to myself: I must now send out a hand-typed note of apology. Of course I don't compete for the Golden Wedding Bell or whatever.) |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: GUEST,Ceto Date: 29 Oct 10 - 10:54 AM Back to the topic. I know a tune for the following, in Country style, but I just don't recall the original title. Who can help? Chick 'n' run There was a modest country chick accustomed for to hike, but one day she devised a trick to get herself a bike. She hired two gorillas to knock the owner down. Imagine then her thrill, as she rode right out of town. Now when the owner boy awoke, the cops were on the street. But be'ng still dizzy from the stroke, he only could repeat: "A chick 'n' two gorillas just robbed that bike from me." The protocol they'd fill as we read it on AP. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Trapper Date: 29 Oct 10 - 11:20 AM Ceto - probably not what you were thinking of, but your song fits the meter of "The Chandler's Wife" pretty well ... with out the [KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK]'s... - Al |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 30 Oct 10 - 04:31 PM Ceto since that's kinda off-topic I'm going to award you a Silver Engraved Apology Award rather than the Silver BLOB for the tongue-in-cheeky: Some juicy details I could add for taunting vers'fication, but then, I am a loyal dad, resisting the temptation ... And a Silver BLOB for the delightful rhyme of gorillas and thrill as. |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Matthew Edwards Date: 30 Oct 10 - 05:13 PM Welcome back Ceto, and also a belated welcome to Trapper who is composing songs faster than anybody can set topics - soon he'll be answering Song Challenges before they have been set! Good to see more from Flash Company, and all the Usual Suspects. Chicken on a Bike Cycling Long Island in Suffolk County, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Pair of gorillas made a monkey of me, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Great big chicken egging them on, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! When I looked up they'd legged it and gone. Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Chicken on a bike on a Monday morning, Oh what a terrible sight to see; Lying in the gutter, dusting my hat, Pickin' at a lickin' from a chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! I woke up, and found I wasn't dead, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Great big bruise on top of my head. Hey yo! Chicken on a bike!! Thought I'd been hit by a killer driller, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Only the victim of an urban guerilla. Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Chicken on a bike on a Monday morning, Oh what a terrible sight to see; Lying in the gutter, dusting my hat, Pickin' at a lickin' from a chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Lost my bike to a threesome of sorts, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! The county police took my reports , Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Copper thinks I'm pulling his leg, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Asked me "Who came first; chicken or the egg?" Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Chicken on a bike on a Monday morning, Oh what a terrible sight to see; Lying in the gutter, dusting my hat, Pickin' at a lickin' from a chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! They issued an APB based on what I had said, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! They arrested King Kong and a Rhode Island Red. Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Ain't gonna ride a bike any more, Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Gonna sell chicken legs and monkey nuts on the sea shore! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Chicken on a bike on a Monday morning, Oh what a terrible sight to see; Lying in the gutter, dusting my hat, Pickin' at a lickin' from a chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! Hi yo! Chicken on a bike! Hey yo! Chicken on a bike! (With apologies, and deep gratitude to Cyril Tawney for inspiration, and also to Pete Bellamy; both of fond memory) Matthew Edwards |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 31 Oct 10 - 12:18 PM A nautical BLOB to Matthew Edwards for the gutteral: Lying in the gutter, dusting my hat, Pickin' at a lickin' from a chicken on a bike! Very nice! (What's the melody?) |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: Matthew Edwards Date: 31 Oct 10 - 01:12 PM What's the melody? You can listen to a recording of The Young Tradition (Peter Bellamy, Heather Wood and Royston Wood) singing 'Chicken on a Raft' on YouTube:- click here to listen. The song was composed by Cyril Tawney, and the lyrics are here in the DT database. Matthew |
Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! 2.0 - Fit 11 From: mousethief Date: 02 Nov 10 - 07:02 PM Time for some well-deserved Golden Cow Chips! The Golden Cow Chip Award with Harp Ribbon (for making the Judges fall on the floor laughing OR make them short out their keyboard with tears) is hereby awarded to:
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