Well, Cats,

I've spent way too much time on Song Challenge!s recently, so I may or may not get around to doing anything with any of therse. In the marvelous spirit of Amos, who posted some great beginnings above, I offere these as take-off points for fine poetry and fun.

Sonja

•Ye Smelly Dumps of Omaha
Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon

•Paradise
Oh, brother, won't you take me to the Omaha Wal-mart
To the sales refund counter, our sister to save?
"I'm so sorry, folks, but you're too late in asking
For an Omaha dump truck has hauled her away."

•She Lies in the Dump Like a Stale Chunk of Cheese
(The Man on the Flying Trapeze)


•The Dumps Of Omaha (The Ducks of Magheralin, The Fields of Athenry or The Lakes of Ponchartrain)

•Tune: Clementine

Omaha dump, Omaha dump, Omaha dump on my mind.
Sis was lost and gone within you, Now her ashes we must find!


• Bury Me Not In The Garbage Heap
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

•That Landfill Near Omaha (That Valley Near Slievenamon)


•Come back, little sister. (Come back, Paddy Reilly)

Oh come back, sister darlin', from Omaha's dump
Oh, come back, little sister, to me.

•Among The Junk and Trash (Among My Souvenirs)

• My Kid Sister's Box (My Grandfather's Clock)

•The Keeper (Among the Garbage Green-O)

•The Omaha Dump (The Eddystone Light or Piney Wood Hills

• Wild Mountain Thyme
And we'll both go to get her mid the garbage and slime
Out within the dumps Nebraskan
Lies your sister and mine.

• The Ash Hunt (The Ash Grove)

• St James Infirmary (Omaha Landfill)

I went down to the Omaha landfill
To find my sister there
She was scattered among the garbage
So gray, so cold, so bare.

• She's in The Landfill Now (I'm In The Jailhouse Now)

• Grey Is The Color Of My Sister's Ash

• House Of the Rising Sun
There is a dump in Omaha they call the great Landfill
It's the resting place of many a poor girl
And our sister, she's there still!

• The Last Time Ever I Saw Her Box

• Ashes In The Box (Whiskey In The Jar)

• The Marvelous Toy (just seems ripe for a picturesque parody

• Dark As A Dungeon (Dank As A Dung Heap)

• So, Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya

• Jude and Marvin's Rag-tag Band (Alexander's Ragtime Band)

• Early Morning Rain
In The Early Morning Rain, sifting through the piles of trash
With an achin' in our hearts
Lookin' for our sister's ash.
She was resting in a box
Bought from Wal-Mart's mark-down rack.
Now the box is in the dump
And we're trying to get her back.

• Blowin' In The Wind
Her ashes, my friend, are scattered to the winds ... .

• In The Dump Again (On The Road Again)