Lyr Add: Cliches (poem by Jim Clark)

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: Schantieman
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM

Leadfingers!

Aarggh! That is brilliantly awful!

Steve

Subject: Lyr Add: ONE STOP ENGLISH FOLK SONG
From:
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 10:04 AM

i sat down the other night to try to write an english pub ballad with as many fetid cliches as i could think of
what am i missing...

ONE STOP ENGLISH FOLK SONG


As I was a walking for pleasure
A fair maid I did chance to see
So with a yo heave ho and a fal tal riddle
I tossed her in the deep blue sea

Ye ladies and ye gentlemen
it grieves me ten times more
That the briny ocean tossed her up
On americay's green shore

I did not care for her silver or gold
And im too young to marry
But she might have proved false to me
So I took her cash to carry

So the moral of my story
As you can plaiinly see
Ill go no more a roamin
Till I need hard currency

And as I close this sorry tale
Of tragedy and farce
I conclude the English folksong
Is a royal pain in the arse

Who cares about its plotlines
Who needs the working class
And sung in the new world its still
As painful to the ass

And so I end my dreadful song
No longer I will tarry
I've a far better thing that I must do
Watch curly, moe and larry

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,more cliches please
Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:12 AM

A Sprat to catch a Mackeral

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,yeh more cliches ha ha
Date: 07 Oct 02 - 03:00 PM

Abird in the bush is worth two in the hand

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,blimey where do you get these cliches from h
Date: 06 Oct 02 - 08:00 PM

ignorance is bliss

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,crikey more cliches
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:56 PM

pride comes before a fall

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,for a few cliches more as Clint might say
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 05:08 AM

how the mighty do fall

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 08:03 PM

We had a long discussion on size,and does it really matter,and ended
up convincing one of the lads that size didnt matter at all.
He remained convinced of this fact right up to the time his wallpaper
fell off the wall.

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,and more cliches
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 06:30 PM

Ship shape and Bristol fashion

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,even more cliches
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 07:59 AM

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: Bert
Date: 04 Oct 02 - 12:42 AM

Size DOesn't Matter

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,more cliches
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:54 PM

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,more cliches
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 05:29 AM

A stich in time saves nine

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Oct 02 - 04:00 AM

More Clichés,
"There's nothing new under the sun"

Subject: RE: Cliches an original musical poem
From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 07:52 PM

Thanx Nigel,

Yes everything has been done before,but you got to try ha ha mine is a musical poem rather than the written kind which makes it rather different....i certaintly wasnt trying to emulate W S Gilbert,but isnt his poem fun ha ha.

Regards.

Jim Clark....

ps..Anyway folks how about a few more cliches for the list...lets see if we can build a Mudcat cliche dictionary ha ha..

Subject: LYR ADD: Faint heart never won fair lady
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:47 AM

Extra message to include "Lyr Add" tag. Someone else posted them in 1999 but they weren't harvested

Nigel

Subject: Lyr Add: FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY (Gilbert)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 09:41 AM

It's been done before;


FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY
(W S Gilbert)


If you go in
You're sure to win
Yours will be the charming maidie:
Be your law
The ancient saw,
'Faint heart never won fair lady!'

Faint heart never won fair lady !
Every journey has an end —
When at the worst affairs will mend —
Dark the dawn when day is nigh —
Hustle your horse and don't say die !

He who shies
At such a prize
Is not worth a maravedi,
Be so kind
To bear in mind—
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Faint heart never won fair lady!
While the sun shines make your hay —
Where a will is, there's a way —
Beard the lion in his lair —
None but the brave deserve the fair!

I'll take heart
And make a start —
Though I fear the prospect's shady —
Much I'd spend
To gain my end —
Faint heart never won fair lady!

Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win —
Blood is thick, but water's thin —
In for a penny, in for a pound —
It's Love that makes the world go round!

Notes:
from the operetta "Iolanthe (or The Princess and the Peri)
"Maravadi": an obsolete Spanish copper coin of little value

NP



Nigel

Subject: Lyr Add: CLICHES (poem by Jim Clark)
From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London..England
Date: 02 Oct 02 - 07:55 AM

Heres a spontaneous outpouring from me and my brilliant electronic composer pal Willpower recorded about lifes cliches..... As you get older it increasingly dawns on one that life is just one big cliche isnt it ha ha...and heres the page with the sound file..


Regards..

Jim Clark... London..England

Cliches

I kid you not,this life is full of cliches
Always dot your I's and cross your T's
By the way mind your P's and Q's
Never judge a book by its cover

I kid you not this life is full of cliches
Always let sleeping dogs lie
He had a smile like a cheshire cat
Why is it that busses always travel in three's
I before E except after C

I kid you not this life is full of cliches
Always dot your I's and cross your T's
And mind your P's and Q's
And never judge a book by its cover
Always let sleeping dogs lie

I kid you not this life is full of cliches
keeping up with the jones's
The grass is always greener on the other side
Always dot you I's and cross your T's
And mind your P's and Q's

All rights are reserved on this poem and sound recording/copyright/patent Jim Clark/Willpower aka Hyperbole 2002..

'blue clicky thing' added by mudelf ;-)