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Subject: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Haruo Date: 04 Mar 20 - 11:51 PM From my vantage point near the American epicenter of the pandemic, I'm just wondering if there are any promising new (or old) songs about coronavirus, whether COVID-19 (ideal) or SARS (okay) or whatever. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Acorn4 Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:45 AM Ideally 20 second songs we can sing while washing our hands? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 05 Mar 20 - 07:23 AM Who will inspire us To sing of the virus? Won't somebody please Write a tune for this disease? What could be finer Than quarantine in Chiner? Who will write wittily Of contagion in Italy? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Starship Date: 05 Mar 20 - 09:15 AM Rest easy. https://qz.com/1811814/theres-already-more-than-65-songs-about-coronavirus-on-spotify/ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 05 Mar 20 - 01:33 PM When some are dying Should we be trying To joke about Wuhan? I daresay some say you can.... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST Date: 08 Mar 20 - 09:09 AM Great Gerry. I recorded your song lol love the words. My demo recording of Gerry's song |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 08 Mar 20 - 07:36 PM Thanks, I think. I shouldn't harp on details, but 1) I don't think your phrasing brings out the rhyme of "please" and "disease", and 2) Jerry is not the same person as Gerry. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 08 Mar 20 - 07:55 PM Yes, I offered the last verse, so it’s a song by committee then. I thought it was a good rendition overall, though slightly menacing, presumably deliberately. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Susan of DT Date: 08 Mar 20 - 09:23 PM Some little bug is going to get you sometime, song from 1890 Some Little Bug Link fixed |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Starship Date: 08 Mar 20 - 09:30 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZDO1Lh37k Susan of DT's link show a 404 error. There a link to Bradley Kincaid's version from 1930. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 08 Mar 20 - 09:36 PM For me, this is a remarkable day for Mudcat / Max technology. Thank you, Sincerely, Gargoyle Like Dick Tracy cartoons.... the technological and the trad weave a brillant future for folk. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: mg Date: 10 Mar 20 - 08:58 PM reported that people in wuhan are or were square dancing in their homes during the quarantine DANCING AT WUHAN tune dancing at whitsun We dance to the music that everyone loves We dance with our masks and our goggles and gloves And we stare down the virus we should be fearful of And still they are dancing in Wuhan We dance to fiddles and banjos, guitars It was somebody’s music but now it is ours We’ll dance to the rainbows we’ll dance to the stars And still they are dancing in Wuhan We open the windows to let in the air And call to the people below don’t despair If you hear the music dance with us down there And still they are dancing in Wuhan We learned from our ancestors life can be gone In the blink of an eye in the length of a song For the sake of our children we will keep dancing on And still they are dancing in Wuhan So bow to your partner and then do si do Alamand left and heel to toe If our lives should be shortened this is how we will go And still they are dancing in Wuhan |
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Subject: ADD: Some Little Bug is Going to Find You From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Mar 20 - 09:59 PM Conrad Bladey send me this one: Some Little Bug is Going to Find You (words by Benjamin Burl, music by Silvio Hein) In these days of indigestion it is oftentimes a question As to what to eat and what to leave alone. Every microbe and bacillus has a different way to kill us And in time they all will claim us for their own. There are germs of every kind in every food that you can find In the market or upon the bill of fare. Drinking water's just as risky as the so-called "deadly" whiskey And it's often a mistake to breathe the air. Some little bug is going to find you someday. Some little bug will creep behind you someday. Then he'll send for his bug friends And all your troubles they will end, For some little bug is gonna find you someday. The inviting green cucumber, it's most everybody's number While sweetcorn has a system of its own. Now, that radish seems nutritious, but its behavior is quite vicious And a doctor will be coming to your home. Eating lobster, cooked or plain, is only flirting with ptomaine, While an oyster often has a lot to say. And those clams we eat in chowder make the angels sing the louder For they know that they 'II be with us right away. Some little bug is going to find you someday. Some little bug will creep behind you someday. Eat that juicy sliced pineapple, And the sexton dusts the chapel Oh, yes, some little bug is gonna find you someday. When cold storage vaults I visit, I can only say, "What is it Makes poor mortals fill their systems with such stuff?" Now, at breakfast prunes are dandy if a stomach pump is handy And a doctor can be called quite soon enough. Eat a plate of fine pig's knuckles and the headstone cutter chuckles While the gravedigger makes a mark upon his cuff. And eat that lovely red bologna and you 'II wear a wood kimona As your relatives start packing up your stuff. Some little bug is going to find you someday. Some little bug will creep behind you someday. Then he'll send for his bug friends And all your troubles they will end, For some little bug is gonna find you someday. Those crazy foods they fix, they'll float us 'cross the River Styx Or start us climbing up the Milky Way. And those meals they serve in courses mean a hearse and two black horses So before meals, some people always pray. Luscious grapes breed appendicitis, while their juice leads to gastritis So there's only death to greet us either way. Fried liver's nice, but mind you, friends will follow close behind you And the papers, they will have nice things to say......... Some little bug is going to find you someday. Some little bug will creep behind you someday. Then he'll send for his bug friends And all your troubles they will end, For some little bug is gonna find you someday. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 11 Mar 20 - 08:14 AM Thanks to Bob Cohen for this. I have no idea what it all means. Who'd have guessed there would be a Romanian calypso about it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d626wZ6W2BA |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 11 Mar 20 - 12:50 PM Vietnam official handwashing video (with dance routine). |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 11 Mar 20 - 06:59 PM Thank you, Conrad via Joe Offer and MG Sincerely, Gargoyle When you have lost your sense of hubris/irony/humor the fall maybe...... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Mar 20 - 10:59 PM Come Sing a Song with Me" -- Covid-19 version... Come wash your hands with me Come wash your hands with me Come wash your hands with me So we can have peace of mind And I’ll bring you soap When soap is hard to find And I’ll sing this song with you As we protect humankind https://www.localprayers.com/US/Bethesda/299774900048714/Cedar-Lane-Unitarian-Universalist-Church |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 20 - 11:02 AM 1919 Influenza Blues by Essie Jenkins |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Mr Red Date: 14 Mar 20 - 01:14 PM anyone seen the Gloria Gaynor video? washing hands to "I will survive" Inspired! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Tattie Bogle Date: 14 Mar 20 - 02:33 PM It was my birthday yesterday, and I was at a singing session in Edinburgh. Assembled company kindly sang "Happy Birthday" to me, while doing simulated hand-washing movements! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: OldPossum Date: 16 Mar 20 - 11:24 AM My Corona to the tune of My Sharona ... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Mar 20 - 12:31 PM Flip Breskin shared this via Facebook this morning, she got it from Eliza Rubenstein. I hope I don't have to name the tune that will jump into your head: I am the very model of effective social distancing! I listen to the experts on the topic of resistance-ing; I know that brunch and yoga class aren’t nearly as imperative As doing what I can to change the nation’s viral narrative. I’m very well acquainted, too, with living solitarily And confident that everyone can do it temporarily: Go take a walk, or ride a bike, or dig into an unread book; Avoid the bars and restaurants and carry out, or learn to cook. There’s lots of stuff to watch online while keeping safe from sinus ills (In this case, it’s far better to enjoy your Netflix MINUS chills)! Adopt a pet, compose a ballad, write some earnest doggerel, And help demolish Trump before our next event inaugural. Pandemics are alarming, but they aren’t insurmountable If everybody pitches in to hold ourselves accountable. In short, please do your part to practice prudent co-existence-ing, And be the very model of effective social distancing! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: cnd Date: 16 Mar 20 - 01:03 PM I've read a Tweet (or something to that effect) that said you can sing the name "COVID-19" to the tune of "Come On Eileen" I'll allow a more musically-inclined member to come up with a song to that affect, unless I get bored and find some unexpected motivation to do it myself. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 16 Mar 20 - 03:44 PM This was written for the "Beast from the East" blizzard a couple of years ago, which left a lot of supermarket shelves empty where I live. The virus could have similar effects, so it's resurfaced. No flour in Scotland! When will we see Sliced breid again? No Mother’s Pride for Your wee bit piece and jam No cheesey toasties (fur who?) Wur tartan army Just pictures of empty shelves Aye, blink again! Those days are past now But icy blast, it may remain But we might still drive (how?) Tae get tae Asda again And stand in queues there (Whit for?) Wur milk, breid an whisky, And carry them homewards Tae drink again... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,John Davison Date: 16 Mar 20 - 04:16 PM From "Ambidextri's Midnight Hoarders": http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/dexysmidnightrunners8.shtml |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,John Davison Date: 16 Mar 20 - 04:22 PM A Billy Joel parody http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/billyjoel416.shtml |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,John Davison Date: 16 Mar 20 - 04:26 PM A Neil Diamond parody to the tune of "Sweet Caroline" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: voyager Date: 16 Mar 20 - 05:21 PM Corona, Corona Got the disease Corona, Corona Got the disease Got such a bad fever I'm weak in the knees Corona, Corona Where you been so long? Corona, Corona Where you been so long? Wuhan Hospital Place gone crazy wrong Go away Corona Go away from my door Go away Corona Go away from my door Take your plagues and your frogs To Pharoah's door Corona, Corona This country's got the blues Corona, Corona This country's got the blues Dis-ease keeps spreading Whole world is pretty confused my 2 cents (with no apologies) voyager |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: keberoxu Date: 16 Mar 20 - 06:21 PM Hey, remember the Disney film about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and when Snow White wants everybody to ... gulp ... "wash up" ?! It's a whole musical set-piece, remember? Step Up To The Tub! Ain't no disgrace Just pull up your sleeves And get' em in place Then scoop up the water and rub it on your face and go "bllllllll blllllllllll bllllllllm"! Pick up the soap. Now, don't try to bluff! Work up the later, And when you got enough, Get your hands full o' water And you snort and you snuff and go "bllllll bllllllll bllllllm"! You douse and you souse You rub and you scrub You splutter and splash All over the tub You may be cold an' wet when you're done But you gotta admit it's good clean fun! Now, scrub good and hard! It can't be denied That you'll look mighty cute As soon as you're dried! Then it's good for the soul And it's good for the hide to go "bllllllll blllllllllll blllllllllm!" ... and Dopey swallows a bar of soap and starts hiccupping bubbles ... those were the days ... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 17 Mar 20 - 03:51 AM Well, as Tom Paxton used to say, I have been propelled into writing a song by the latest events (to the tune of When I’m Cleaning Windows’): C C7 Our cat goes out and he roams free F Adim To take the air or take a pee C E7 Now he goes out much more than me Ab7 C Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown Now every time we cough or sneeze We use the elbows of our sleeves But now our clothes are all diseased Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown With no vaccine or target drugs We’ve burnt all clothes to kill the bugs Indoors we sit, just wrapped in rugs Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown We wash our hands like they say so My Happy Birthday’s rather slow I do my best Marilyn Monroe Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown Yes, my rendition takes so long Outside the door, queues quite a throng Saying “mass gatherings are banned as wrong” Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown C D7 Now to lose our loved ones, we all must be prepared G7 C But if it’s just loved ones, maybe I will then be spared Now no one knows how long it’s for And so I sing out my front door Our neighbours beg me “please no more” Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown Just trying to cheer up those poor souls But they lob missiles, truth be told An endless stream of toilet rolls Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown Whilst we’re indoors the cat does play Uprooting seedlings night and day To him it’s one big litter tray Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown To pass the time, I do crosswords The cat’s goes off to chase the birds And leaves my lawn festooned with tell tale signs Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown The strain is showing here indoors There’s not a lot to stop being bored We have cross words, and that’s for sure Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown C D7 I really couldn’t wait, when they said isolate G7 C All I seem to do now, is just wait and wait and wait At last we’re germ free, I now think My wife pours out my favourite drink To disinfect the taps and sink Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown So we sit here in lockdown Hell Sod all to eat, nor drink as well My vodka’s gone to make hand gel Whilst we’re stuck in lockdown. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,henryp Date: 17 Mar 20 - 10:30 AM Corona, Corona, Where you been so long? Corona, Corona, Where you been so long? How I’m worryin' 'bout you, You sure done me wrong. I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings. I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings. Now I’ve got Corona, Life don't mean a thing. Corona, Corona, You're on my mind. Corona, Corona, You're on my mind. Now I'm thinkin' about you, I just can't keep from dying. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Stevebury Date: 17 Mar 20 - 08:07 PM Six-Foot Blues words: Steve Woodbury and Ann Bauer (March, 2020) tune: Five-Foot-Two, Eyes of Blue Five-foot-two — no, that won’t do! Gotta stay six feet from you. That’s why I’ve got the six-foot blues! ‘Social Distance’ gets resistance But the CDC’s insistence Gives us all the six-foot blues! Coronavirus does inspire us, Reading the news, To obey what they say; As citizens we pay our dues. If we’re at sea, there must be One full fathom ’twixt you and me, That’s why we’ve got the six foot blues! Five-foot-two — that won’t do! Gotta stay six feet from you, Now we’ve all got the six-foot blues! If I stay at home, all alone, I’ll be so blue; If I go out and walk about, There’s a chance that I’ll see you. Miss my family and friends a lot, Wary neighbors is what I’ve got, Because they’ve got those six-foot blues! Five-foot-two — that won’t do! Gotta stay six feet from you Now we’ve all got the six-foot blues! This new metric, antiseptic, Is our routine; The separation for conversation: About two meters in between! I miss the music, I miss the fizz, Shutdown news is all there is, That’s why I’ve got those six-foot blues. Five-foot-two — that won’t do! Gotta stay six feet from you, Now we’ve all got the six-foot blues! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Mr Red Date: 18 Mar 20 - 04:41 AM S J Paterson: The Ballad of Dunny Roll #SammyJ (whatever that means). his Fakebook page his TV output I wonder if he is a descendant of Banjo Patterson? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: cnd Date: 18 Mar 20 - 05:49 PM "Quarantined with You" by Bosco and Whiteford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudETBl6OH8&feature=youtu.be |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: mg Date: 18 Mar 20 - 06:10 PM there is a great one i came across from punjabi musicians but did not preserve link. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Mar 20 - 08:52 PM I am the very model of effective social distancing I listen to the experts on the topic of resistance-ing I know that brunch and yoga class aren’t nearly as imperative As doing what I can to change the nation’s viral narrative I’m very well acquainted, too, with living solitarily And confident that everyone can do it temporarily Go take a walk, or ride a bike, or dig into an unread book Avoid the bars and restaurants and carry out, or learn to cook There’s lots of stuff to watch online while keeping safe from sinus ills (In this case, it’s far better to enjoy your Netflix MINUS chills) Adopt a pet, compose a ballad, write some earnest doggerel And help demolish Trump before our next event inaugural Pandemics are alarming, but they are not insurmountable If everybody pitches in to hold ourselves accountable In short, please do your part to practice prudent co-existence-ing And be the very model of effective social distancing! hat tip to Vicki Solomon who got it from Mary O'Brien who got this via Barbara Millikan who got it from the author Eliza Rubenstein It's a San Francisco thing.... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Mr Red Date: 19 Mar 20 - 04:19 AM it's viral obviously................. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 19 Mar 20 - 12:52 PM @Jack Campin, 16th March: Is that way of "FofS" yours? I've sung it to a couple of friends, and they think it's great (I particularly admired the way the Makar preserves the vowel-sounds of the original in the parody). If you know who made it, please let us know. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Mr Red Date: 19 Mar 20 - 05:59 PM from sanchobrable (Tony) who runs Wessex Acoustic Calendar and, in more normal times, an e-mail update on news/changes/RIPs/corrections. For an area from Cornwall to Surrey and up into Gloucestershre, approx. Talking Coronavirus Blues I gave my pretty woman a hug and a kiss. She sprayed me with Dettol and called the police. Turns out she’d been watching that BBC News and that’s what’s got me to singing the blues. Now, when we talk, I gotta give her a ring cos she’s doing that social distancing thing. Ain’t never too late for self-isolatin' cos there’s nothing so mean as that COVID-19. I went along to Asda and joined a queue hoping to buy some rolls for the loo. I asked a ‘colleague’ (member of staff)’ He said, ‘Mate, you must be having a laugh’. When I went to the checkout, the girl at the till said, ‘You’ll just have to use the back of your bill.’ Ain’t never too late for self-isolatin' cos there’s nothing so mean as that COVID-19. I was sat in the garden reading that chap Chaucer when out of the sky comes a flying saucer. An alien descended, just like in a dream. Then he saw my mask and he let out a scream. He got back inside and away he flew all the way home to Aldebaroo. Ain’t never too late for self-isolatin' Cos there’s nothing so mean as that COVID-19. If any of you would like to render the above musically and commit it to YouTube, please feel free. Just credit me with the lyrics. Keep well, Tony |
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Subject: ADD: 50 ways to beat Corona From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Mar 20 - 06:34 PM 50 ways to beat Corona (with apologies to Simon and Garfunkel) She said it’s getting bad out there, you’d best stock up on food The thing we need to do right now is practice solitude If it gets out of hand you know we’re really all quite screwed Unless we find 50 ways to kill Corona. The danger is quite real, she said, although we cannot see If we’re too late it could spell the end of humanity The situation’s urgent, so we all must act quickly To find the 50 ways to kill Corona. 50 ways to kill Corona. You just take a step back, Jack Keep your hands clean, Gene Stay 6 feet away, Ray Keep your distance from me. Yeah, stay home from work, Kirk Don’t be a germ spreading jerk Just put the mask on, John, And keep us healthy. I said to be afraid is not my kind of thing And I don’t understand this talk of social distancing The world is changing much too fast, I find it puzzling So could you please explain the 50 ways. She told me there’s no more time for talk, you must listen to me I have a PhD in epidemiology I’ve read all the research reports from the CDC And I’ve got 50 ways to kill Corona. 50 ways to kill Corona. Yeah, stay off the bus, Gus Don’t get on that plane, Jane Don’t touch your face, Grace You just listen to me. Don’t cough in the air, Claire You might spread a disease there Don’t sneeze on Louise, please Just keep us healthy. I said it seems to me that everything you say Is now the new behavior we must practice every day If we want any chance to keep this perilous disease at bay So I’ll try every way. Now we all know the methods to keep ourselves disease free We all can soon look forward to a return to normalcy But until then I think I’ll go and buy some more TP! So let’s use 50 ways to kill Corona. 50 ways to kill Corona. You just take a step back, Jack Keep your hands clean, Gene Stay 6 feet away, Ray Keep your distance from me. Yeah, stay home from work, Kirk Don’t be a germ spreading jerk Just put the mask on, John, And keep us healthy. Yeah, stay off the bus, Gus Don’t get on that plane, Jane Don’t touch your face, Grace You just listen to me. Don’t cough in the air, Claire You might spread a disease there And don’t sneeze on Louise, please Just keep us healthy. Posted by Mark Levy to San Francisco's Harmony list - he didn't know the name of the songwriter. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 19 Mar 20 - 07:02 PM Keir Nuttall (husband & musical partner of Kate Miller-Heidke) wrote a Covid-19 song to the tune of I Was Only 19, but John Schumann (who wrote the original) asked him to take it down. Story on the ABC News site. That's the Australian ABC, not the USian. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 19 Mar 20 - 11:11 PM Lots of recordings of this one-I found 2 78s on ebay right away |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 19 Mar 20 - 11:16 PM https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167479&messages=2 https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167479&messages=2 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Mr Red Date: 20 Mar 20 - 05:05 AM but John Schumann (who wrote the original) asked him to take it down. Oldest rick in the book - new lyrics to established tune, now write a new tune to the new lyrics. New song, no copyright. I guess it depends on the words lifted from the original. But in English there are so many words to choose from it is relatively easy to get round that one. A parody does require knowing the original, to give it more traction, so is the effort worth it? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 20 Mar 20 - 06:42 AM By Orit Klein Varsky: You know the ballad Twa Corbies? I made a parody of it Twa Covids As I was walking all alane I saw two masked men makking mane The tane unto the tether did say Where shall we stock pile stuff today Where shall we stock pile stuff today In beyond yon aldi store I saw some TP, more and more And naebody kens that it is there But the guard and the staff and the manager But the guard and the staff and the manager The guard is to the washroom gane The staff to bring more packets hame And the manager is gane out smoking So we may make our stock piling We may make our stock piling You'll sit on the guard's breast bane And I'll pick out some "extra fine" With many a packet many roles We'll never lack TP at all Never lack TP at all Mony a one of them maks mane But nane has TP stocked at hame O'er the TP isles when they are bare The wind shall blow for ever mair The wind shall blow for ever mair |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 20 Mar 20 - 08:21 AM ? ?? Is the take-off of "F of S" posted above also your own? It's been appreciated by a number of friends, and I'd like to know who the Makar is. Good Luck. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Mar 20 - 10:32 AM I'm thinking this Tom Lehrer ditty is missing from this collection. I've revived it's thread which for some reason is below the line in BS: By Tom Lehrer, ©1952 I Got It from Agnes I love my friends, And they love me, We're just as close, As we can be And just because We really care Whatever we get We share. I got it from Agnes She got it from Jim We all agree it must have been Louise who gave it to him Now she got it from Harry Who got it from Marie And everybody know that Marie Got it from me. Giles got it from Daphne. She got it from Joan Who picked it up in County Cork A-kissin' the blarney stone Pierre gave it to Shiela Who must have brought it there He got it from Francois and Jacques, aha! Lucky Pierre! Max got it from Edith Who gets it ev'ry spring She got it from her daddy Who just gives her ev'rything She then gave it to Daniel Whose Spaniel has it now Our dentist even got it And we're still... wondering how. Ah, but I got it from Agnes Or maybe it was Sue... Or Millie or Billie or Gillie or Willie- It doesn't matter who It might have been at the pub Or at the club or in the loo And if you will be my friend, then I might... (Mind you, I said "might"...) Give it to you! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Mar 20 - 10:34 AM Oh, the BS thread is titled "Infections from Hell." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Stevebury Date: 20 Mar 20 - 03:06 PM Music for 'I Got It from Agnes' is included in the book 'Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer', pp 126-129. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs From: Jack Campin Date: 20 Mar 20 - 03:15 PM No Flour in Scotland was written by an Edinburgh woman I hadn't heard of before - I think I got it off the "Lost Edinburgh" FB group. My only web access now is an iPhone 4S, which makes copying and pasting both the text from one place and the provenance from another very difficult. |
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