The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13140   Message #106707
Posted By: Barry Finn
19-Aug-99 - 11:36 PM
Thread Name: Any news on the Rise Up Singing sequel?
Subject: Lyr Add: RISE UP SCREAMING
Hi Spaw, I was staying away but I'm here now that my name got mentioned. Hear tell that there's going to be a recall before it's even out to protect those of us that don't follow the Bible word for word when we/I go to singing sessions, even get yelled at for not singing a half assed version as documented in RUS (the following song explais the meaning of RUS & exposes the abuses & dangers in it's written word.

Rise Up Screaming
Words Barry Finn
Tune: Jack In The Green by Martin Graebe

A pub session or a party is a very strange thing
They're all out of fashion no more do they sing
For they read from a book or copy a tape
They imitate sounds no mortal should make

There's no sound in the kitchen, no sound in the hall
There's a murderous screech that plays off the walls
Where is the music, where are the songs
In the mouths of monsters where no sound belongs

Dead pan they look as they sing in your face
They'll spit out the words and the tunes they'll disgrace
A song will be beat o'r and over to death
And in a round robin they'll resurrect it again

No more will be heard a version that's lost
Or a variant that's rare or two songs were crossed
The borrowing or sharing of a tune or a song
Will be according to the Bible all else will be wrong

And now for the future , it's bleak for the song
No young mortal will dare to carry it on
They'll be none around who without books can sing
Or swap without tapes or rise up singing

Copyright Barry Finn 1996