Lyr Add: The Clocks They Are A-Changin' (parody)

Subject: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM

We had a thread recently about the time changes occurring around the world and this weekend, the US "Springs Forward." I start this thread to give everyone another look at this song written by Micca in honor(?) of the occasion.........It really is one of the best rips we've had done here. Brilliant job Micca!!!!!!!

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Times Changing by Micca

Come, gather round 'catters where ever your home
and admit that its time to adjust your time zone
and don't you "fall back" if its spring where you're from
If your time to you is worth saving
And you'd better stop winging or you'll sound like a drone
For the clocks they are a changing

Come folkies and poets whose profit is your pen
And keep your eyes open cos its come round again
And of the wedge it may be the end thin
And there's no telling where it is aiming
Oh the loser now will be later to win
For the clocks, they are a changing

Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don't alter our clocks as they hang on the wall
For like Arizona maybe we should have stalled
And against this mad scheme should be raging
But resistance is useless in church or in hall
For the clocks, they are a changing

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
The time has arrived for us to take stand
Your sons and your daughter are watching the hands
You are ancient and rapidly aging
And explain once again so that they understand
That the clocks they are a changing

The time, it is shown, and gone back at last
And the present now will soon be the past
The first one now will later be last
The tick-tock is rapidly fading
And the slow one now will later be fast
For the clocks, they are a changing

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Again Micca.....Thanks for a great one!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:17 AM

THIS WEEKEND??? As usual the Great Brits lead the way...

We have already done it (nah-nah, na-na-nah)

Dave the early Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:22 AM

Yeah Dave, that's where the song came from....the previous thread. Good to see you all have more daylight now to grow veggies in since I see you're becoming a Vegetarian country.(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:25 AM

"When time goes bye" is another.

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Big Tim
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:32 AM

Cats, as a signed up Dylan freak I loved your rhyme, verse, parody, whatever it was. You're a clever lassie!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:37 AM

He's more clever than anyone guessed if he's a lassie. ;-) Micca is responsible for that one, though.

It was about time someone wrote that song. Good work, Micca!

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 10:44 AM

Naw, you're right Jeri......Ain't signed up for the sex change yet. Maybe when they do the mitral valve though..............

I put it in bold and all......Micca did this one and a fantastic job it is. Again, Cousin Micca, BRILLIANT!!!!

Spaw - With Joe Smackers still attached.

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:15 AM

His grammar and spelling are still pants though!

Pretty good for you, pretty bloody amazing that it's repeatable in a family forum!!

LTS - who still has 3 clocks in the house on Proper time.... don't ask why, but only 1 is the video.

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:23 AM

I like those improper time ones. Big Bang is in front of you. She likes it, t00.

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:35 AM

...but who knows where the time goes?

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Morticia
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:48 AM

Clever little sausage isn't he, although a stranger to spellchecker?

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:55 AM

The early Gnome gets the bird! Great song!

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Micca
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 11:57 AM

Its a DYLAN parody, You CAN'T use a spellchecker on Dylan!!!!!! It dont work... Thanks guys...

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Lanfranc
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 05:34 PM

I wish I'd written that! I might well nick it and sing it tho'!

Don't heed the pedants, just write as you feel it, syntax isn't everything! (Although after April 5, it might well be payable!)

Hear ya on PalTalk, Micca!

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:17 PM

As a child I always wondered how the earth knew to slow down or speed up for Daylight Savings Time. Now I live in the other enlightened state: Hawaii, like Arizona, doesn't do DST.

Remember in 1973 when they tried to make it DST year-round? It was supposed to save energy. Hahahahaha!

Daylight Savings Time started in 1942, I believe, as "War Time", so the factory workers could work later and help the war effort. Listen to rebroadcasts of old radio shows from the 40s and you'll often hear something like "Tune in next Saturday at 7PM Eastern War Time..."

Wonderful song, Micca, and thanks for posting it, 'Spaw. (Just check your doctor's wall before the surgery, 'Spaw, and make sure the certificate says "cardiothoracic surgery" and not "urology", and you'll be fine.)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: alison
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:28 PM

wonderful Micca.... thanks

I wish you'd told me about the sex change... I have some skirts I can lend you.... *grin*

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 08:37 PM

I dunno' Mark.......I hope the stuff on his door is right. It says he's the Karl P. Klassen Professor of Surgery and the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery for Ohio State University.

Hope he can tell the difference between my various parts...........Whaddaya' reckon????

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Mar 01 - 09:19 PM

Actually, Mark, I always thought Daylight Savings Time....at least here in the states....started during WWI........but then I have been known to be wrong once in a great great great great great while.....then again maybe not....

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 01 - 09:12 PM

Morticia doesn't seem to recognize t00 as the origin of the (double) light cone. (Big Bang in one direction and future in the other.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Clocks They Are A Changin'
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:39 AM

Brilliant, Micca!
Allison-(2LL's)-snarling-thru-the-snow(and now gonna be sleep-deprived as well!)