Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs

Subject: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 01:23 PM

I started a song challenge for new "Brexit" verses of "Separation Blues".

Now for another thread: this discussion is open for any other lyrics you know or make up about the European Union and/or the UK relation to it. Sorry - I don't know any yet and haven't composed any myself. Well, I wrote a sort of poem about leaving home, but it isnt singable.

You can write a brand new song or do a rewrite.Some popular songs I think may suit parodying are A Day in the Life ( Beatles' song - "I heard the news today, oh boy...") and "Who's Next?" by Tom Lehrer - - I've read of exit movements in the Netherlands, Sweden and Italy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 03:23 PM

Schiller's Ode with Beethoven's tune is hard to beat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 05:31 PM

oh that's right, Jack, the EU has an anthem
- not what I had in mind though

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 07:03 PM

http://pitchfork.com/news/66518-listen-to-squarepushers-brexit-protest-song-midi-sans-frontieres/

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 09:18 AM

BoJo (Boris Johnson)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 11:28 AM

thanks, Nigel! also I now have a Gove vs Johnson verse on my contribution to E.U. Separation Blues thread

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 06:29 PM

or what about a parody of A Jug of Punch, which starts of with the date of the Brexit referendum
"It being on the twenty-third of June
As I sat weaving all on my loom"

Or perhaps Bob Dylan's It's all over now, Baby Blue - "You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last, But what ever you want to keep you better grab it fast"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Jul 16 - 09:34 AM

I was unaware that the Faragists anticipated the future back in 2014 with the UKIP Calypso https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/ukip-calypso-attempt-puerile-immigrants

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Jul 16 - 01:53 PM

those calypso lyrics can be read at http://usvsth3m.com/post/100492315518/we-listened-to-all-3-minutes-50-seconds-of-the-ukip

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: GUEST,Amanda MacLean
Date: 05 Jul 16 - 02:16 PM

You might enjoy my new 'translation' of the Ode to Joy - Ode to Brexit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvb4cwXwfw

Already a little out of date - half the participants are now out of the equation!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 07 Jul 16 - 12:45 PM

another Mudcat thread has been more successful in gathering lyrics - it has a catchy title Whither Political Song

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 07 Jul 16 - 12:56 PM

Lyr.Req: other EU songs related songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: Felipa
Date: 08 Jul 16 - 07:24 AM

that last message was meant for the Whither Political Song thread. Anyway, here are Amanda aMcLean's lyrics with German verse from Schiller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvb4cwXwfw

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligthum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng getheilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Farage, Gove and lying Boris - You who want your country back
So do we, you devious bastards - How do we give you the sack?
Wher is our three-fifty million? What on earth is wrong with you?
Never trust an old Etonian with your health, or the EU.

Boris, you have dropped us in it – there's no paddle in the boat that
Cameron's no longer steering - Will the UK stay afloat?
Sturgeon says she canny take it; Sinn Fein's feeling much the same;
Merkel soon will get hacked off with your procrastination game.

When we leave, Conservatives will still screw up the welfare state.
Jeremy's right on the money: it's no crime to immigrate.
We're fed up with little Hitlers playing to the racist louts.
Let's stay in the EU family. Nigel Farage - UKIP out.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: other E.U. related songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 30 Aug 16 - 12:00 PM

another addition to Brexit song list
http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160472