06 Jul 01 - 05:21 PM (#500134) Subject: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Alrightey, Challenge!rs -- Drop them leeches and pick up a steaming drumstick for the next Challenge! This one comes from our own dear, sweet Kim C (somebody get this girl in counseling quick! ;-) Have fun . . . even though you Ren Faire folks will think twice the next time you bite into a big hunky roasted turkey leg . . . If you start hearing voices with every bite, call Kim, not me, OK? So, Challenge!rs pluck up your courage, do your thang, and GO FOR IT!! -- Áine
Chicken Of The Living Dead? -- Kay Martin, a secretary to a New Zealand MP, got the fright of her life a few weeks ago. According to the Auckland Sunday Star, she and a friend were chatting over a drink when they heard a chicken squawking. The bird sounded in some distress, so they went outside to investigate, thinking perhaps that it had escaped from one of the neighbors. But, there were no chickens anywhere.
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06 Jul 01 - 05:40 PM (#500151) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Kim C Heehee! I'm about to go home for the weekend so I'll leave this one to the more capable hands...... ;-) |
06 Jul 01 - 06:17 PM (#500180) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: JenEllen Deeee-lightful! Half-Dead Chicken Blues (to Hank's First Year Blues)
I was sitting there drinkin my glass of wine
Well I've been cookin' all my life
All you women out there listen to my tale
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06 Jul 01 - 06:53 PM (#500209) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: McGrath of Harlow Just as well! I left out a vital quote mark - I think that was the problem. Let's see anyway. Shazam!:
First off, A poignant chicken link
Oh mother, you've cooked us a succulent feast
That'll do for now. Here goes (but saved this time in case!) ---Jeff (PA)--- |
06 Jul 01 - 07:10 PM (#500221) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Gareth Sorry - can only be a Fowl song Gareth |
06 Jul 01 - 07:19 PM (#500229) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Ach a Chaoimhín, ya wee devil! Well, it seems that Kim has left us to our own 'devices' this weekend - her and screechin' chicken - It ought to be interestin' to see what we cook up! '-) First, the alpha batch of Silver B.L.O.B.s: To the ONE AND ONLY JENELLEN for these righteous lines:
All you women out there listen to my tale And to McGrath of Harlow for the picturesque verse (and I'm hoping there'll be more forthcoming from this Master of the Mudcat...):
Oh mother, you've cooked us a succulent feast Geez -- I'm quivering in my boots wondering what the other Challenge!rs will come up with . . . Meanwhile, here's yet another humble entry from the Keeper of the Book:
I Wish I'd Cooked Zucchini Lasagne |
06 Jul 01 - 08:43 PM (#500267) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: JenEllen LOL Aine....thye just keep comin', don't they? THAT CHICKEN WAS A HOMEWRECKER (My Johnny Was a Shoemaker)
That chicken was a homewrecker
The cackling that did ensue
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06 Jul 01 - 09:11 PM (#500280) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: JenEllen In was on that fateful day I faced the poultry resurrection Standing in the kitchen Oven mitts my only protection Lawd a mighty- left me singin' What the cluck?!?! ~crowingirl |
06 Jul 01 - 10:56 PM (#500370) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Well, I can't compete with these high-powered hen types, but here's a little number from a range rooster....
The Lavender Broiler
It was only a Lavender Broiler Tweedledee, tweedledeedledeedum, deedledum! And after I had turned up the oven Tweedledee, tweedledeedledeedum, deedledum! But soon a mysterious whimper Tweedledee, tweedledeedledeedum, deedledum! At first a looked 'round, all bemused Tweedledee, tweedledeedle deedum, deedledum! The hairs on my neck they were rigid! Tweedledee, tweedledeedle deedum, deedledum! The chicken was weeping and squawking Tweedledee, tweedledeedle deedum, deedledum! We buried it out in the back yard Tweedledee, tweedledeedle deedum, deedledum! Oh ladies of passion, take warnin' Tweedledee, tweedledeedle deedum, deedledum! |
07 Jul 01 - 08:05 AM (#500481) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: McGrath of Harlow Second course coming up:
Oh mother, you've cooked us a succulent feast
Oh Mother, that chicken now lies on the plate,
Oh Mother dear Mother, the house is all dark,
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07 Jul 01 - 11:10 AM (#500574) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos OI, McGrath, you are jerking my poor heartstrings!! Nicely turned. A |
07 Jul 01 - 11:20 AM (#500586) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Aaahhh, the talent here is just amazing! Here is the next batch of Silver B.L.O.B.s -- and well done so far, all a' y'all: To the ever effervescent JenEllen for (and this B.L.O.B. was the unanimous choice of the Wonder Kids):
The cackling that did ensue To dear Amos, B.O.T.F. for:
We buried it out in the back yard And another B.L.O.B. to Master McGrath for the vivid:
Oh Mother dear Mother, the house is all dark, Wonderful stuff -- now what other 'interesting' situations can you come up with for that bird?? -- Áine ;-) |
07 Jul 01 - 02:20 PM (#500667) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,robdale Still more comment on consumerism. I am hoping this song will br the basis for an organization called PETH People for the Ethical Treatment of Hens. Kind of spookily chanted over a Delta blues riff with scratchy percussion in the background. Kind of a voodoo sound.
Boiling Lobster Screaming Chicken line breaks and spelling fixed by mudelf ;-) |
07 Jul 01 - 03:57 PM (#500723) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Free formatting for RobDale! Boiling Lobster , Screaming Chicken
But maybe the causes are deeper than that! 'squaking' to 'squawking' fixed by mudelf ;-) |
07 Jul 01 - 03:59 PM (#500724) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos "Squaking" should probably be "squawking", Ye Elfin Clan! |
07 Jul 01 - 04:05 PM (#500726) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,robdale Thanks Amos, archiac word processing features are among the true charms of the Mudcat! You're right about the speling. What's an "Elfin Clan"? |
07 Jul 01 - 04:10 PM (#500731) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: McGrath of Harlow But then again it might have been be quaking. Or squeaking. I love these folk variants... |
07 Jul 01 - 04:15 PM (#500734) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos A collection of unknown Micro-pseudo-Joes who run up and down the threads fixing errors on request or if they are damaging the display in some way, deleting double posts, etc. They are called "Elves", hence "Elfin (or Elven) Clan". |
07 Jul 01 - 07:24 PM (#500813) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas LOL! And has anyone checked this one out in the DT? Click here Lin |
07 Jul 01 - 10:54 PM (#500897) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Yo RobDale -- Wow, that's all I've got to say -- WOW! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
But maybe the causes are deeper than that Now you have to wrap up the story line in your ditty, RobDale...at least one more verse, preferrably two, OK? Hey, if you're gonna go and be this dang good, the High Priestess of the Patricus Potamus has to be more exacting, don't ya know! ;-) Lawdy, I've even been accused of wearing highheeled black boots and carrying a whip . . . (hee hee). -- Áine P.S. TO ALL CHALLENGE!RS: If any of you are looking to qualify for the 'Two-Fer' Award (or better), check out SONG CHALLENGE! Part 8, Part 22, and Part 42 on the Song Challenge!s Past page, and see how you can work this Challenge! and one or more of these past hoo-haws into a song . . . It's a Double Dawg Dare, so ya can't turn it down! '-) -- Á. |
07 Jul 01 - 11:45 PM (#500919) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,Robdale I hope these are enough verses. My first instinct was to end the song, Edgar Allen Poe like... in the moment of greatest horror. Dragging it out and torturing the audience with gratuitus images of senseless violence is also fun!!!
Boiling Lobster , Screaming Chicken
But maybe the causes are deeper than that!
Our animal foods extracting revenge
The chef from the "Won-Ton" garden |
08 Jul 01 - 12:35 AM (#500939) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine BRILLIANT! SIMPLY BRILLIANT!! . . . ah, but I knew ya could do it, RobDale ;-) And here's an extra Silver B.L.O.B. to go on your virtual mantle for:
Our animal foods extracting revenge Hoo-haw! -- Áine (whew -- now I can take these dang boots off -- Man, are my dawgs barkin' and this whip thang is givin' me car-pull tunnel syndrome, I swan!) |
08 Jul 01 - 01:16 AM (#500955) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas THE CLUCK CAME BACK (To the tune of "The Cat Came Back"—very loosely!) Ms. Kay Martin had trouble all her own She'd bought a range-bred chicken to cook up in her home She'd dressed that bird up special and stuck it in a pan Thinking it would be good eating for her and her man. They'd begun to relax with wine and coy flirting When they heard a mournful sound that was both distressed and hurting It came from close at hand, from somewhere in the kitchen "Sure smells good, honey, but...the oven is bitchin'!" CHORUS: 'Cause the cluck came back, oh yeah, the cluck came back! The bird it was a goner, but the cluck came back, It just wouldn't stay away! Kay's mind was spinning, her face turned pasty pale But though she feared to look, her courage did not fail. She opened up the oven, yanked out fowl and pan Tried to chop its neck off, and that's when the fun began. CHORUS The farmer down the way came up with his shotgun Said "I can fix this problem, put that bird on the run." He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite And blew that roasted carcass plumb out of sight. There were 97 pieces of the bird upon the ground And every single piece was still making that weird sound So Kay put them in a sack and buried them in the park Where they rested quietly until long about dark— Then.... The cluck came back! F**k! The cluck came back! The bird it was a goner, but the cluck came back It just wouldn't stay away! Now Kay's house is haunted, and she's had to move away Hoping that that awful sound will disappear some day. If you pass by on the street, and listen carefully, You can hear, inside the house, from oh so far away— (Fading into the distance...) CLUCK, cluck, cluck, CLUCK, cluck, cluck, CLUCK, cluck, cluck...
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08 Jul 01 - 09:31 AM (#501065) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Way to go, Lin! That's a wonderful twist on this chicken's tale!! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
They'd begun to relax with wine and coy flirting -- Áine |
08 Jul 01 - 02:22 PM (#501227) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas Thanks, Áine! Love your challenge!s...just printed out the list of past challenges you linked up above, and have been giggling dementedly, remembering and checking out the gems your Challengers have come up with--amazing. Thanks again for all the fun! Lin |
08 Jul 01 - 02:27 PM (#501232) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos There's good and sufficient reason for the Gaelic Goddess' reverent title, see. And that historical chain demonstrates she has earned every cosmic iota of her status! Divinity doesn't come cheap, ya know! Love, A |
09 Jul 01 - 03:55 AM (#501634) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Oh behave, dear Amos B.O.T.F.! (blush)... ;-) Where in the henhouse are the other usual suspects?? SharonA, Bradypus, MMario, derrymacash . . . Oh Challenge!rs Where Art Thou?? Do you mean to tell me that the day has finally dawned when a Double-Dawg Dare doesn't raise a squawk around here?? -- Áine |
09 Jul 01 - 06:39 AM (#501730) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Aidan Crossey A slightly tangential take on Aine's challenge!
The cuckoo is a bird that doesn't bother with a nest
You may talk about the ostrich and of its awesome size
They say that in the colder climes, there is a penguin bird |
09 Jul 01 - 09:07 AM (#501857) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA I'm here, Áine, back from the weekend and suffering from the Monday-Morning Can't-Thinks. I'll wake up soon. Meanwhile, I'm just boggled by all the super songs that have been posted thus far. Great Squeaking Oven-Stuffers, you guys are good. SharonA |
09 Jul 01 - 09:28 AM (#501876) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario gazing bleary eyed and befuddled at the challenge thread, awe-struck and amazedI don't have the brain cell this week, dearest GG. Probably won't for a while... |
09 Jul 01 - 11:12 AM (#501958) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Never you mind, you bleary lot! Derrymacash has swept the board!! LOL!!! A |
09 Jul 01 - 11:35 AM (#501989) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario The Flying Dutchman (Revised) In the hot and gloomy galley on the Dutchman one dark night When from a stiff nor'wester we had been in hurried flight Like an infant in his cradle rocked, the cook was fast asleep While peacefully we ploughed along the bosem of the deep All at once our cook he gave a shout of terror and fear As if he had just heard about some sudden danger near We listened most intently and soon we all had heard The ghastly ghostly cackle of a disembodied bird Let out the flowing canvas, now, Van Dyck he loud did cry For this to our ship's company great terror does betide I'd rather that the billows toss, or all my topsmen sicken Then hear again this dreadful cry, the ghostly ghastly chicken On sped the Flying Dutchmen, cutting through the hissing spray Pursued as if by tempest by that loud and cackling bray And though the ship it sped along as if by tempest blown Still faster came the ghostly sound, just like a rooster crowin' Morn the Flying Dutchman, morn, for horrible it's doom The ocean round the stormy Cape forever is its tomb They must now eternal sail, but not for the cause of sin Rather 'tis due to the captain's fear of the ghostly ghastly chicken. |
09 Jul 01 - 11:39 AM (#501993) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Oh, Mario, you have outdone yourself!!! That's SO funny!!!. Just change that next to last line so it ends with "thicken" or "kickin'" or "makes their hearts to sicken...." or "grinnin' an' a-pickin'" or "malevolently tickin'" or ... "prickin'" or .... well, you get the idea. There's no way to make sin rhyme with chicken!!! A |
09 Jul 01 - 11:59 AM (#502008) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario they rhyme the way I pronounce 'em |
09 Jul 01 - 12:03 PM (#502014) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario but then again - I've been known to rhyme "glockenspiel" with "commenwealth" |
09 Jul 01 - 12:08 PM (#502019) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Okay, I'm awake now... THE DEVIL WENT TO NEW ZEALAND (Tune: "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels) The devil went to New Zealand. He was lookin' for a chick to fry. He was in a mess; he needed cooks to dress Hens to grill for that Elvis guy. When he came across this woman Fiddlin' with an oven and makin' it hot And he sat down there on her kitchen chair And said, "Girl, lemme tell you what: "I guess I didn't show it, but I'm a chick-fillet-er, too And if it's jake, let's shake and bake — you'll take a dare, won't you? Now you roast a pretty good pullet, girl But I'm the devil, of course. I'll bet this Pyrex of glass against your ass That my bird tastes better than yours." The woman said, "My name's Kay And it might be you're bad But I'll take your dare; you'd better beware 'Cuz mine's the best you've ever had." Kay, go grease your roastin' pan And baste your chicken wet 'Cuz hell's broke loose in Auckland And the devil cheats his bet. And if you win, you get this sparklin' Pyrex made of glass But if you lose, the devil gets your ass. (Chicken-neck solo) The devil plucked himself a hen And said, "This bake-off starts!" And fire flew out of his behind As he heated up his farts. And he put his hen in back of him And he drank some Jap'nese beer. Then he cooked with gas and burned the hen It was music to his rear: Devil solo: "Phlphlphlphlphl-whoosh-crackle" When the devil served it up, Kay said, "Well, it's pretty good, old fart But sit down there in that kitchen chair And let me make a work of art!" Fire in the oven — done well done The devil's in the house of the risin' bun Chicken in the roast pan, pickin up steam Lady, does your hen fright? Scream, chick, scream Kay's chicken solo: "Bukaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccck!" The devil took a bite, and then he knew what heaven was. He laid that Pyrex on the floor at Kay's house-slipper fuzz. Kay replied, "Devil, just come on in If you ever want to fry a thing; If it's poultry once, it's poultry again — Mine's the best that ever sing!!" And she made fire in the oven — done well done The devil's in the house of the risin' bun Chicken in the roast pan, pickin up steam Lady, does your hen fright? Scream, chick, scream Kay's chicken fade-out: "Bukaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......" |
09 Jul 01 - 12:12 PM (#502023) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario *clap,clap,clap,clap!* I'm still groggy enough that I "heard" the solos as I read that Sharon.... |
09 Jul 01 - 12:14 PM (#502025) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA P.S. - Áine, as you can tell, I can't resist a dare, but I prefer to pick my own past Challenge!s to work in, if it's all the same!! ;^) SharonA |
09 Jul 01 - 12:16 PM (#502027) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA (...or do they HAVE to be the past Challenge!s that were named???) |
09 Jul 01 - 12:19 PM (#502033) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Ah, derrymacash, go iontach! I just love the romantic slant that you took on this one ;-) And my hat's off to you for working the word 'albatross' into a song! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
You may talk about the ostrich and of its awesome size And to MMario, for his brilliant bit of Stephen King cookery, a Silver B.L.O.B. for:
Morn the Flying Dutchman, morn, for horrible it's doom -- And where I come from, Amos my dear, 'sin' DOES rhyme with 'chicken'! ;-) -- Áine
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09 Jul 01 - 12:50 PM (#502063) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Sharon: I am rolling on the damn floor here!! TEEEEriffic!!! Aine, you pronounce the bird "chi'i'n"? Or the lapse "s'k-in"? Or is it a question of peculiar Texan em-PHAHS-is on the wrong syll-ABLe, as chick-IN? A |
09 Jul 01 - 12:50 PM (#502064) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Oh, SharonA -- Anybody that can work 'Pyrex glass' and 'house-slipper fuzz' into a rhyme can pick any dang past Challenge! they want to! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for the wonderful:
The devil took a bite, and then he knew what heaven was. -- Áine (still tickled 'pink' with that 'fuzz' thang!) |
09 Jul 01 - 12:57 PM (#502071) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario of course it's chick-IN.....otherwise it wouldn't rhyme. then again I know some people who pronounce it chi-CKIN - so I could see how it might not rhyme...
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09 Jul 01 - 01:05 PM (#502080) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos LOL, MM -- your circular reasoning has defeated me!!! LOL! A |
09 Jul 01 - 01:11 PM (#502087) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Alright, here it comes . . . I wrote this at 3 a.m. this morning, after sleeping on the sofa in front of the TV . . . that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it . . . I'm fairly confident that everyone on the globe remembers the sad story of Loreena Bobbit, her husband, and that incident with a certain piece of cutlery. Personally, I never bought that 'mad with jealousy' defense that her lawyer talked her into. At last, the real reason for her 'temporary insanity' can be revealed . . .
Loreena's Raison -- Áine |
09 Jul 01 - 01:13 PM (#502090) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario actually amos - when I wrote the line, the word "of" was not there_ because I was trying to make a play on words with the captain not only being afraid of the ghost chicken but also calling the captain a chicken in the same phrase....and when we used to call someone "chicken" it was indeed pronounced "chick-IN" - tho I would normally say CHICK-in - which makes a much weaker rhyme |
09 Jul 01 - 01:14 PM (#502093) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Eternally, the bosun's call The sailor's heart doth quicken! Chained not by sin, but the Captain's fear Of that ghastly, ghostly chicken!! Oh, pleeeeeze???? A |
09 Jul 01 - 01:19 PM (#502096) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario drop the "of" and sure...(works every time. defend your feeble choice long enough and someone else comes up with a better lyric...) and if you agree to dropping the "of" then my original try at double meaning holds. |
09 Jul 01 - 02:06 PM (#502145) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Alright now, you two -- you've been so busy arguing over a preposition, that you've both missed seeing my song . . . oh dear, I see a bad moon risin' . . . -- TGG |
09 Jul 01 - 02:11 PM (#502153) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario i should know better then try to argue with amos anyway...*ahem, cough,gulp* I honestly didn't see it, sorry! I LIKE - though understandably the whole subject is not one of my favorites...
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09 Jul 01 - 02:24 PM (#502164) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: mousethief In that old chicken farm back home tune: In them old cotton fields back home
When I was an egg so blessed,
Oh then that chicken farm sold this chicken
The plot was as thick as Chekov:
Oh when the air goes through your larynx Copyright ©2001 Alex Riggle. All Rights Reserved. |
09 Jul 01 - 02:36 PM (#502184) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario That's a good one, alex. y'now, I was just thinking though. If I recall correctly from bio lab, the larynx of a chicken works on the inhale not the exhale which would make this whole thing an urban legend. But it's a good'un |
09 Jul 01 - 02:41 PM (#502187) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: mousethief Thanks, MM! Alex |
09 Jul 01 - 03:00 PM (#502213) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA *screaming laugh!* Chekov – neck off! Larynx – scarynx!! Oh, that's priceless!!!! |
09 Jul 01 - 03:04 PM (#502222) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,RobDale Lady Marinade by Le Fool Hey Sister poultry, The Poutlry, Le poulet, Le poulet (x2)
She made Coc Au Vin down in Old New Zealand,
'Mmm Hmmm Bucka Bucka Buck buck ah ah
Cut off it's head and it didn't squawk
'Mmm Hmmm Bucka Bucka Buck buck ah ah
Seeing the skin all basted and black
Now She's at home cooking rack of lamb
'Mmm Hmmm Bucka Bucka Buck buck ah ah Creepy lady Marinade ........ |
09 Jul 01 - 05:01 PM (#502347) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Ooohhhh, mousethief - I love a good mystery! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for:
The plot was as thick as Chekov: And RobDale, a song that definitely warms the cockles of the Cajun side of my heart! Here's your Silver B.L.O.B. for a chorus that just says it all:
'Mmm Hmmm Bucka Bucka Buck buck ah ah Such appetizing 'entrees' -- where's my frying pan?? ;-) -- Áine (who's just all a flutter) |
09 Jul 01 - 05:08 PM (#502353) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: mousethief Well done, RobDale! Alex |
09 Jul 01 - 06:44 PM (#502434) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,RobDale Well done yourself Alex. I like the first chicken point of view. SharonA that was awesome, one surprize after another! |
09 Jul 01 - 07:05 PM (#502459) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Oh, MM, I withdraw my noisy demand -- do as Thou Wilt, for Thou Art all that is good! A |
09 Jul 01 - 07:38 PM (#502497) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine So what am I? Chopped liver? -- The Keeper of the Book (pouting...) |
09 Jul 01 - 07:50 PM (#502514) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: GUEST,RobDale Áine, Thow art as good as all! Better than most! Robinus Dalius |
09 Jul 01 - 10:45 PM (#502641) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas Sigh...there goes another box of Kleenex to wipe the screen, the keyboard, my chin, my nose, my chest...oh well, what's one more coffee stain on THIS T-shirt? (Loreena Bobbit, indeed!) And Amos, I gotta side with MMario on the chick-EN thang, although how the heck he got a Texas accent way up there where HE lives is beyond me. Derrymacash, I am impressed--I think the only bird you missed was the emu! Well done! SharonA, RobDale, Alex--your imaginations and creative use of thesaurusi (thesauruses??) boggles me--wunnaful, wunnaful! Lin |
09 Jul 01 - 11:00 PM (#502651) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario hmmmmm - my previous post is missing - so I must repeats meself... amos - no fair(e) withdrawing improved lyrics!
an' if we don't end this amicably - who KNOWS what TGG will get up to in her current "bobbit" mood!!!!! |
10 Jul 01 - 01:41 AM (#502726) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Heavens spare me from a Pouting Goddess with a Razor in Her hand!!! Oh, TGG, thou art Higher than All Chopped Liver!!!....how's that? MM -- you may have the lyrics if you wish!!! Pax to us all, lest the Green Froth sweep down upon us like a Lime Fizzy on the fold!!! A |
10 Jul 01 - 08:26 AM (#502893) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Áine's "Double Dawg Dare" has been doggin' me, since in my last song I included a past Challenge! that was NOT one of the three she dared us to use... Soooooo here's one with part 22 in it (pronunciation guide: CO = "see-oh")! GRAND OL' HEN (Tune: "Anne Boleyn" by R.L. Weston and Bert Lee) In the oven in Auckland, steam is thick; The ghastly Grand Ol' Hen squawks, they do say. The Grand Ol' Hen was once Kay Martin's chick Until she hacked the neck that speaks today. Oh yes, she did wring it hours ago And it talks back in fright to tell her so With its head tucked underneath its wing It squawks with all its power With its head tucked underneath its wing At the dinner hour. It calls to haunt Kay Martin, It screams, giving her the bird. Gadzooks, it's crowing to tell her off for filling it, she's heard. And just in case the chicken doesn't get the final word, It has its head tucked underneath its wing. Off in Fruita, CO, there is a spread Where Mike, the bantam rooster, loudly crew. The farmer's carving knife once cut its head When up came Mike, alive, to spoil the stew. It fluffed its tail up with a gurgling "gloop." Lloyd Olsen cried, "You won't go in my soup "With your head tucked underneath your wing You squawk with all your power With your head tucked underneath your wing At the dinner hour." Mike toured the endless towns and states; for months the cock lived on. It often tried to peck, poor thing, although its beak was gone. T'was awfully, awfully awkward for the bird to sire spawn With its head tucked underneath its wing. |
10 Jul 01 - 08:55 AM (#502925) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario Sharon, you are dangerous! *strolls off singing*
"With your head tucked underneath your wing
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10 Jul 01 - 09:31 AM (#502960) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos You go, lady Sharon!! A reg'lar powerhouse. (hums)With yer 'ead TOOKED underneath yer wing, at the diiiiiner HOUR!! Exit, stage right, pursued by a Dog named Bear.... |
10 Jul 01 - 11:07 AM (#503033) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Jack the Sailor SharonA, Again I am awed! I feel compelled to try to compete. I know I am not worthy but the flow ideas must not be restricted. |
10 Jul 01 - 11:39 AM (#503079) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA "The flow [of] ideas must not be restricted. " Amen to that, RobDale! Thanks, guys, for all the compliments. You Mudcatters are among the few who seem to appreciate my sense of humor (guess it's a bit obtuse – or maybe wicked – for most folks). But I wouldn't be crankin' these parodies out if you weren't inspiring me be crankin' out your own awesome material! I don't see it as a compulsion to compete (except against myself to improve), but an IMpulsion to create, spurred by the creativity happening around me! Thanks to you all for egging me on! SharonA |
10 Jul 01 - 11:43 AM (#503086) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Oops! Typo: shoulda said "...inspiring me BY crankin' out your own awesome material!!!" (sorry) (oops, there I go being apologetic again; sorry) (oops, there I go...) SharonA |
10 Jul 01 - 12:03 PM (#503110) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario Rob -- I often feel the same way - both about the compulsion to enter something and not being worthy. However, I believe there is a section in the official rulebook that insists that all are worthy and self-depreciation is not allowed. I just can't find a thing in that rule book since it expanded into 6 volumes. |
10 Jul 01 - 12:52 PM (#503160) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA "I often feel the same way...about...not being worthy. " Et tu, MMario? I hope you and RobDale are being facetious, because you both (and, in fact, all here) are more than worthy. However, if your intent is to compete with me in the self-flagellation department, I've gotta warn you that I've had decades of experience at it (and no, I ain't tellin' you how many!)! SharonA |
10 Jul 01 - 01:32 PM (#503198) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Jack the Sailor My most humble contribution. please not where you see () the contents are not to be included in the song lyric. I haven't really written the melody. but think of traditional English folk music performed with traditional Chinese instruments. Or Vice versa. Food for Thought (Chickens and the Creative Process) by Ed I. Son copyright 2001 Rob Dale
Mrs. Watt put Violet (8) in the pot
Said an old Chinese, I ask you please
No word to the Emperor said I am not unhappy with this but I do regret not being able to work in the French Attack Monkeys! |
10 Jul 01 - 01:35 PM (#503202) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario I've seen you! Suspect we have about the same number of decades of self-flaggellation. I wish I was being (totaly) facetious - but I do often have a lot of self-doubt - one reason I like the 'cat. I get a lot of support here. and I did mention the rule book, didn't i? |
10 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM (#503212) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario very clever these traditional anglo/sinese |
10 Jul 01 - 01:48 PM (#503218) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Bravo, multi-Challengial RobDale!! |
10 Jul 01 - 02:47 PM (#503282) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Jack the Sailor Poetic interlude Barbary apes in the strangest of places. livin in France, trained to attack faces One thing I'm sure of, explicitly I'd go bananas if one attacked me. Urban Ape |
10 Jul 01 - 03:03 PM (#503298) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Jack the Sailor Poetic interlude
Barbary apes in the strangest of places.
Monkeys are funny it is plain to see
Civets and monkeys both difficult pets, Urban Ape Any elf who can, please delete previous. |
10 Jul 01 - 03:43 PM (#503330) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA "...I fall to pieces When they do what they normally do..... throw feces" Hee hee hee.... If Patsy Cline wasn't rolling in her grave after the last Challenge!, she sure is now! SharonA |
10 Jul 01 - 03:46 PM (#503333) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Charley Noble I hope someone remembers "Ghost Chickens in the Sky." |
10 Jul 01 - 03:51 PM (#503335) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario fondly |
10 Jul 01 - 05:36 PM (#503435) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Jack the Sailor Ghost Chickens... very cool. I read it cause someone put a link to it from this thread! If anyone is haunted by birds, its the Colonel. |
10 Jul 01 - 06:05 PM (#503458) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Or Tippi Hedrin (did I spell that right?). |
11 Jul 01 - 08:50 AM (#503927) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: SharonA Hmmm... Supposing Kay Martin were in her early 70's (depends on how long New Zealand keeps its secretaries on the payroll)... Then she would've been a young, impressionable teenager when Lloyd Olsen of "Song Challenge! - part 22" was touring with Mike the headless rooster... What if they'd met?... and fallen in love? Find out as we go back, back through the mists of time to hear the tale of SKINNY LLOYD THE FARMER (Tune: "Sweeney Todd the Barber" credited to R.P. Weston) In Fruita, Colorado state, When old FDR was "late" There lived a man whose fame was great: 'Twas Skinny Lloyd the Farmer. One visit there and you'd go no more. You'd see his rooster walk Then stumble, fall, flop to the floor And hear its headless neck squawking, singing "Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, my body he kept alive today." Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, "I'll lop his head off," he once would say. His rooster to the block would go But he had no fear of the farmer's blow. "Dead hens can talk and a headless cock crow" Said Skinny Lloyd the Farmer. Down under, near old Oz, it's true, Where Lloyd took his rooster to, There lived a young soprano who Loved Skinny Lloyd the Farmer. Kay laid her singing tracks on LP's; Her hits sold like wildfire, Chock full of meaty harmonies For she was getting her choir from mister Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, by God he could make those chickens play. Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, "I'll lop their heads off," he once would say And many a poor prize hen had Her skull pared only for the fad Of a beakless voice, 'cause Kay was so mad For Skinny Lloyd the Farmer. It was near dinnertime in young Kay Martin's home And the chickens lay flat in a line In a range over which they would never roam And her sweetheart made sure they would whine. The mikes were set up by the closed oven door To record ev'ry cackle and wheeze. Sound equipment was strewn over counter and floor And the engineer said, "Quiet, please." Well, in came the rooster with old Skinny Lloyd Just to listen to Kay's latest cooin'. Kay was quite overjoyed though his presence annoyed The technician whose work he might ruin. Well, the engineer sat with his mouthful of gum Saying, " 'I'll Squawk Alone' – take 14." Lovely Kay, by the icebox, was starting to hum With the chickens beginning to keen But what rotten luck: as they started to cluck, Mike the headless cock started to strut And attempted to crow. Then the sound man, named Chuck, Yelled out Skinny Lloyd's fav'rite word: "Cut!" Yes, Chuck ran to the rooster and shouted out, "Cut! "Get a mike on old Mike right away!" He recorded the bantam and backup hens, but He completely forgot about Kay. But up came our Lloyd to console the poor dear As she watched her career and her food burn. "I will never forgive you for bringing Mike here," Kay condemned, and Lloyd's true love she would spurn. And there with the giblets Lloyd hangs in his barn, And they do say a headless cock's crow Made a number-one song, but Lloyd can't give a darn And Mike sang as Lloyd swang to and fro: "Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, by God you could make those chickens play. Skinny Lloyd the Farmer, I'll make no songs with you past today." And old chicks call him from their grave Clucking, "Hang, but Skinny, be sure to save Your voice for croonin', 'cause hell's sure to rave 'Bout Skinny Lloyd the Farmer!" |
11 Jul 01 - 09:10 AM (#503939) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario Sharon - you have a sick,twisted, and demented mind. I really have to admire that in a person. |
11 Jul 01 - 06:19 PM (#504480) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Bradypus To the tune of 'Song Sung Blue', by Neil Diamond ...
Swan Song Blue |
11 Jul 01 - 07:28 PM (#504532) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Philibuster To Cockles and Mussles.
In Auckland city, line breaks & italics added by mudelf ;-) |
11 Jul 01 - 07:44 PM (#504540) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Amos Wow, wow, woooow! A |
12 Jul 01 - 12:32 AM (#504696) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas Oh Jeez....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha SharonA, how cruel! Poor old Skinny Lloyd.... Bradypus, what have you done? Pray Neil never sees this thread; he'd insist on doing another album! (Aghhhhhhhhh) Philibuster, "the chicken was tender"????? They ATE it??? Yetch!!! I'm beginning to feel like the only way I'll ever cook chicken again is in very small bits! Gad, you guys are good. Lin |
12 Jul 01 - 09:00 AM (#504890) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario Brady and Phil - much applause, stamping of feet and laughter! Thanks! |
12 Jul 01 - 02:39 PM (#505160) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Trapper Here's the corniest country song I know.... Sorry I'm late to the party - I was at the Winnipeg Folk Fest last week! Woo hoo! - Al
OLD RED
Oh, when I was a girl, Old Red was an egg
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12 Jul 01 - 02:50 PM (#505168) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: MMario owwwwwww! |
12 Jul 01 - 06:47 PM (#505347) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Alrightey then, I think we've 'bout sung our heads off about this here chicken, don't you? ;-) Sorry for being gone for a couple of days; but, the fellas came to put the new carpet in my office (the next-to-the-last-repair stemming from the sewer backup a few weeks ago...) -- and, of course, I was so excited about getting rid of the 'pong' in there, that I helped them move some books . . . and you all know what I'm going to say next . . . yes, my back went out again . . . (insert yelling at your favourite green deity here . . .) Anyway, everything's put back where it belongs (except my sacroiliac, of course) and TGG is ready to roll on to another Challenge! And apart from the flippin' fantastic songs y'all have come up with, I've received some flippin' fantastic Challenge! ideas from y'all as well. ;- So, here we go, read 'em and weep -- with joy, of course -- Cudos, congrats and big hugs and snogs to each of you for doing such a mahvahlahs Mudcat job on this one!
Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Shamrock Cluster (The Shamrock Cluster is awarded for a very high level of imagination, imagery, and/or creative use of language in a song): -- Áine |
12 Jul 01 - 06:54 PM (#505352) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: mousethief What does B.L.O.B. stand for, again?
sorry, |
12 Jul 01 - 07:04 PM (#505361) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine B.est L.ine O'. B.ull -- and you have to stay after school tonight, mousethief, and index the Song Challenge! Rule Book -- all six volumes -- ya buggah! ;-) -- Áine |
12 Jul 01 - 07:20 PM (#505379) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: JenEllen Huzzah! Just got back here myself. I love it! You folks are blazing!
MUCH love and laughter, |
12 Jul 01 - 10:09 PM (#505468) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Áine Here's a message for you Super Special Sandstone Sheila-Na-Gig Ocarina Award winners -- I'm wondering why no one has gotten my 'bold' joke . . . derrymacash, surely you get it, don't you? ;-) -- Áine |
13 Jul 01 - 03:55 PM (#505994) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: Lin in Kansas Thanks Áine. As always, the fun is great and the talent astounding-- Hope your back gets better SOON!! Lin |
09 Nov 09 - 12:53 AM (#2762546) Subject: *bump* -- SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 From: JesseW Worthy of being read again. For that matter, worthy of having people sing various of these... It's filk, filk I say! ;-) |
09 Nov 09 - 01:07 AM (#2762552) Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! - Part 59 -- Fixed link From: JesseW Assuming the broken link (Old style digi-trad) above was to Ghost Chickens In The Sky, here is a current link: http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2233 |