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Subject: Chocolate for depression From: GUEST,Melanie Date: 20 Jan 04 - 10:14 AM Hi, I heard a great song at Towersey about five years ago (maybe) that went something like: 'When you're feeling down the only thing to lift you up is chocolate' Does anyone one else recognise it & if so could you let me have the lyrics? Thanks! Melanie (Worcester, UK) |
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Subject: ADD: Chocolate (Marcus Turner) From: Ian Date: 20 Jan 04 - 10:18 AM CHOCOLATE (Marcus Turner) When you're tired and depressed, and feeling lonely, When your chequebook's in the red, and you are blue, When you've left the freezer open, or your rubber band is broken, Or you've dropped the toilet paper down the loo, If you feel a sudden urge to wash the bread-knife, Or to sniff at the exhaust-pipe of your car, Or to farewell those you love 'n' take a nap inside the oven, Stop! Salvation's just a sup from where you are! CHO: When you're feeling down, the best way up is chocolate: It's the answer that will get you through the day. Let me get my teeth around something small and square and brown, And I'll masticate until I feel O.K. Now, when God had finished making all the heavens, And the valleys and the mountains and the seas, And the weather, and the weasels, and the squid, and German measles, And the gherkins, and Hong Kong, and all the fleas, On the seventh day, as he was sitting resting, He was feeling in a very chipper mood. There came one more inspiration for one last divine Creation: Something fit to please a God, that could be chewed! CHO. When I see a bar of chocolate lying idle, It always seems to find its way inside my jaws. It's a shame to mess about, 'cos it tastes better in than out, And it's going to a very worthy cause. And although it won't endear me to my dentist, And my doctor will be worried for my health, And it's given me a skinful of enormous oily pimples, I'm still feeling very good about myself! CHO. Just remember, if it's chocolate, you can eat it: Chocolate eggs and chocolate fish and chocolate chips, Chocolate steak and mousse and frogs, chocolate beans and mice and logs, Let a chocolate bomb explode across your lips! Some is crunchy, and is filled with Hokey-pokey, Some is thrown about by cowboys, and is white. There's a whole world out there waiting: don't just sit there salivating, Pull your socks up, brace yourself and Bite! Bite! Bite! CHO. You will never have a bad trip eating chocolate. And it's tastier than sex, and much more fun. Keep your pills and dope and glue, and your gin and whiskey too, 'Cos there's no buzz like a chocolate Buzz - Bar none! If you really, really love me, give me chocolate, Give me chocolate 'till it's coming out my ears. All I crave is just enough so I can indolently stuff Myself for years and years and years and years and years! CHO. |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression From: Tinker Date: 20 Jan 04 - 10:21 AM Could it be this one... Chocolate Song There are several to pick from if you put chocolate in the search box and when looking at threads check for the preface Lry Ad to find the words to other songs about chocolate. I don't have more time right now, but if the search results are right, chocolate and folkies go together. |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression From: Ian Date: 20 Jan 04 - 10:24 AM Lyrics copied from http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dexy/music/chocolat.txt NOTE: There is allegedly an ABC file that contains tunes for this and many other songs at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dexy/music/ but I didn't try to download it. I'll leave that to someone who is knowledgeable about using ABC. Sorry it seems to have missed the breaks |
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Subject: Tune Add: THE CHOCOLATE SONG (Marcus Turner) From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:21 AM Here's the ABC Ian mentioned. ~S~ ================================================================ X: 33 T:Chocolate Song, The M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:120 C:Marcus Turner K:G B,C|"G"DD D>D DD ED|DG3-G2DD| DG GB Bd dB|"D"A6Bc|! "G"dB "D"Ac "G"BG GA|BG "C"EG "G"ED Bc| 1 dB "D"Ac "G"BG "C"FE|"D"D6:| 2 dB "D"Ac "G"BG "D"FA|"G"G6:|| % Output from ABC2Win Version 2.1 i on 5/08/2001 |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: SueB Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:31 AM I haven't figured out ABC yet, but it seems like it goes awfully well to the tune of that one that starts "I was born about ten thousand years ago, there ain't nothing in this world that I don't know.." Now this is a song I can really relate too! |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: Clean Supper Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:34 AM I know of a choir in Derbyshire that sings the song. They´re called The Rough Truffles and I am in contact with one of the members. If needs be, I can probably connect you with the dots and harmonies for it. |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:37 AM Somebody around here can convert ABC to MIDI.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:41 AM Shame, shame, shame on ALL of us! :~) There already was a thread with this song in it: CLICK ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: GUEST,MMario Date: 20 Jan 04 - 11:58 AM I've got the midi - will try to get it posted this evening. |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: wysiwyg Date: 20 Jan 04 - 12:43 PM But this thread ought to be combined wiht the previous one? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: Herga Kitty Date: 20 Jan 04 - 01:44 PM Melanie If you heard it that long ago in the barn at Towersey, it was probably Moira Craig singing it - and she leaves out the penultimate verse. I've learnt it off Moira, and also sing it without the penultimate verse. Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: Emma B Date: 20 Jan 04 - 02:42 PM No one sings it quite like, or with as much feeling, as Moira - but how does she manage to stay so slim? |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: Herga Kitty Date: 20 Jan 04 - 02:53 PM Hmm, so when did Hong Kong get turned into cocoa? Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Chocolate for depression (song) From: Zany Mouse Date: 20 Jan 04 - 06:06 PM Sadly Moira can't eat chocolate now as it hurt her mouth! Rhiannon |
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