Your song for the end of the world -July 4th

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Barbara
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 11:56 AM

How 'bout "I'm Ready When You Call Me, Lord, But Gimme Just a Little More Time"? Thank you.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: WyoWoman
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 10:42 AM

At least we have some suggestions for our "end of millenium" parties. I wonder what in the world I'll be doing on that day/night...

KC

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: bob schwarer
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 08:11 AM

Anyone notice? It's now July 5.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 07:47 AM

... or "Five Minutes More" ...

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Carlzen
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 04:05 AM

Bill D mentioned "Til the end of the world comes round..." and said "bluegrass, I think." It's an old Flatt and Scruggs song. Know any new Flatt and Scruggs? If all this comes true it won't matter.

Geoff Muldaur recently released a cd and the final track is a funerasl march from New Orleans, "Just a Little While"

"Soon this life will be all over And our pilgrimage will end Soon we'll take our heavenly journey Be at home again with friends.

Heaven's gates are stanmding open Waiting for our entrance there Some sweet day we're going over (July 4, 1999??) All the beauties there to share.

It continues, but you get the idea.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Jul 99 - 03:37 AM

"The Last Night of the World"!

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Ronn
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 05:42 PM

The Austin Lounge Lizards' version of "Mama Dont Allow No Tactical Nuclear Weapons 'Round Here" would be a good choice.

But I cant believe that the thread has gotten this far without a mention of that Minnesota boy's song, "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Melodeon
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:50 PM

I want to be singing Leonard Cohen's "Dress rehearsal rag" on July 5th

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: bob schwarer
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 01:34 PM

Let's all eat a taco
Let's all drink a beer
Let's all tell another joke
And get the hell outta here

The gas tanks dry & the grass ain't cut. You better be right.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: John Hindsill
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 10:59 AM

Old Eddy Arnold tune, "Make the World Go Away"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Barbara
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 09:45 AM

Say, Roger, when did you move to Oz? I think it's still July 3 in England.
So you folks in Australia can let the rest of us know if it's true, right? D'you remember this Beyond the Fringe routine about the end of the world, these religious group sitting on some godforsaken ridge chanting "Now is the end of the world"? Closes with the line, "Oh well, fellows; same time next year?"
Think I'd pick Malvina Reynolds:
"This ol' world is mean and cruel
But still I love it like a fool;
This world, this world,
This world.

Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 06:40 AM

It's now 4th July here.

Is there a song called 'So Far So Good'?

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 99 - 04:39 AM

Bill, you've had too much time on your hands lately....
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bert
Date: 02 Jul 99 - 01:25 PM

Bill D. shouldn't that be minus one?

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 06:52 PM

hey!! I did it first time!(that's supposed to represent the # of atoms in the universe, I think)

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 06:50 PM

hmmm..wonder if this will work..
10¹⁰²³

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 06:46 PM

gee, anon...wouldn't 999⁹⁹⁹ have said it easier?

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 06:42 PM

Come Away Melinda

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From:
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:32 AM

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Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Banjer
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 05:35 AM

One I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned yet is the old standard done by the Weavers and many other group and solos, "So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: gargoyle
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 02:01 AM

Nearer My God to Thee

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:40 PM

Goodbye Cruel World

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: manylodges (inactive)
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:28 PM

I can't help but think of "Fidlers Green"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Rita64
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 07:39 PM

"Eagle Rock"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Helen
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 07:01 PM

Alan B and KC,

I was thinking of Tom Lehrer's The Wild West is Where I Want To Be, if we are thinking nuclear holocaust as the end of the world. The only version I have heard of this song was by Dillard, Hartford, Dillard.

Helen

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: John OSh
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 11:59 AM

How 'bout "Isn't It Grand Boys" the (in my humble opinion) best song about leaving this world)

Also like the Python references...

John OSH

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 11:04 AM

The ever-popular tune to end the show with---(O.K. everybody---Get out here and we'll all sing it as our finale........)

"Goodnight Irene"

Art

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Neil Lowe
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:22 AM

"Sittin' On Top Of The World," by anybody.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bert
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 10:13 AM

There's Elliot Kenin's "F*** off and die"

although I hope that that "Wrong again" in going to be the real winner.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 09:47 AM

Ah, the ever-brilliant Tom Leherer. My favorite of his -- in keeping with the stream-of-consciousness nature of my recent postings and having nothing to do with the end of the world -- is "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." Lovely little ditty for this time of the year.

As for the end o' world stuff, maybe "Fixing to Die Rag" from Country Joe McDonald. (Whom I had the displeasure to interview some years back in a small roadhouse in Albuquerque and found to be most unpleasant, by the way.)

KC

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Alan B
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 07:41 AM

Surely Tom Lehrer wrote the definitive songs about this:

First try at blue clicky things:

We'll all go together when we go. and

So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) .

Don't you think?

Alan B

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: reggie miles
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 02:06 AM

There's another Oneman Johnson song called, Song About Life, that would also do nicely.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: DonMeixner
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:51 AM

My choice would be "I'll Be Seeing You"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: alison
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:46 AM

so does this mean all of you Americans will miss the parades and fire works?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:45 AM

Alison -- That was mine, too. OK, second choice: Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," third choice: "Calling All Angels," from "Love You 'til the End of the World" soundtrack.

KC

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: alison
Date: 30 Jun 99 - 12:21 AM

we'll meet again

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 10:14 PM

"Till the end of the world comes round
Im still in love with you...
As long as the sun goes up & comes down...etc....forget the details..Bluegrass, I think

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 09:57 PM

"Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre" would be a nice tune to sort of float away on~~~~~~~~~.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Dave M
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:46 PM

"I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" by the only Hank Williams or the apocalyptic anthem by Too Tight O'Toole, "Armageddon Outta' Here". Dave M

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:30 PM

There's "Tuck Your Head Between Your Knees and Kiss Your Ass Goodbye," which as far as I know hasn't yet been written; it's the last line of a joke about what to do in case of nuclear attack. I toss it out there for whoever wants to write it. --seed

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Captain Swing
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:08 PM

Yes, Banjer - or perhaps one of Barry's earlier rendidtions "Three Wheels On My Wagon"

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Banjer
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 08:02 PM

How about the ever popular 'Eve of Destruction' by the never forgettable Barry McQuire?

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Tony Burns
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:28 PM

"Bury Me In My Shades" - Shel Silverstein

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:26 PM

Hey Sham---I'l ride the Python bandwagon with you, but I'm partial to the "Galaxy Song." Lyrics are on the same page as yours if Joe wants to read them...scroll on down. Or better yet Joe, go rent a boatload of Python stuff!

catspaw

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:18 PM

Auld Lang Syne AND Always Look On the Bright Side, as mentioned above.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Penny S.
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 07:07 PM

Catch a Falling Star!

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bob Landry
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 06:40 PM

Oooopsss! My mind must be fried from all that worrying ... "Please DOn't Bury Me" by John Prine!

Bob

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Bob Landry
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 06:38 PM

Spanish Pipe Dream by John Prine.

And there's the sign a doomsayer was carrying around in Toronto: "The World Ends Tomorrow at 10: o'clock (10:30 in Newfoundland)!"

Bob

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Peter T.
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 05:48 PM

"Nostradamus Igitur" (classics joke).

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Fadac
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 05:39 PM

Hokey Pokey. Because that's what it's all about.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Captain Swing
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 04:55 PM

Surely it's got to be Bill Caddick's ' The Last Damn Song in the World'

Captain Swing

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 04:39 PM

Once Was The Time of Man - performed by the Limelighters, circa 1960, can't remember the author

Chorus: Once there were trees and a river.
Once there was grass where you stand.
Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs.
Once was the time of Man.

Grass doesn't grow on the hillside.
Trees shrink and die in the sun.
No place to hide my little baby's eyes
From the damage the dead have done.

(Chorus)

They didn't know in the old times,
The earth and the seas were to share.
They didn't know in the old times,
For there...
Once were trees and a river.
Once there was grass where you stand.
Once there were songs about rights instead of wrongs.
Once was the time of Man.

Once was the time of Man.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 03:57 PM

Hey, anybody got lyrics or links for thise songs? Most of them are songs I haven't heard of.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Walrus
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 02:26 PM

how about that Great War standard, Goodbye-ee.

Walrus

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: reggie miles
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:47 PM

Life's Too Short To Drink Cheap Wine, by my good friend Robert Oneman Johnson.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:44 PM

Best Years of Our Lives by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.

Subject: RE: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: Mudjack
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:22 PM

I'd Like to teach the world to sing-in perfect harmony.
Mudjack

Subject: Your song for the end of the world -July 4th
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Jun 99 - 12:05 PM

According to Nostradamus, the 16th century French astrologer and physician, the world is due to come to an end on July 4th 1999.

Apart from Skeeter Davis, singing 'The End Of The World' and Nostradamus's own version of 'Ho Ho Ho, Who's Got The Last Laugh Now', what would be your choice to mark this occasion and be the last song the world ever heard?

I think my vote has to be for Monty Python's, 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'.