Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj

Post to this Thread - Printer Friendly - Home
Page: [1] [2] [3] [4]


Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)

DigiTrad:
INFLUENZA


Related threads:
Songs About Disease (99)
Songs of the 1919 Flu Pandemic (34)
Folk songs of disease (48)
The Spanish Flu. (7)
BS: flu - to jab or not to jab? (96)
Lyr Req: Memphis Flu (Elder Curry) (11)
Mexican Corrido about the 1918 Influenza (16)
BS: Influenza Britain (31)
INFLUENZA (30)
Lyr Add: Foot and Mouth Disease ^^ (3)


An Buachaill Caol Dubh 20 Mar 20 - 03:18 PM
Jack Campin 20 Mar 20 - 03:51 PM
An Buachaill Caol Dubh 20 Mar 20 - 06:10 PM
Charlie Baum 20 Mar 20 - 06:12 PM
An Buachaill Caol Dubh 20 Mar 20 - 06:13 PM
GUEST,SqueezeMe 21 Mar 20 - 10:23 AM
Georgiansilver 21 Mar 20 - 09:48 PM
Charlie Baum 24 Mar 20 - 05:59 PM
Felipa 24 Mar 20 - 07:04 PM
mg 25 Mar 20 - 02:31 AM
Donuel 25 Mar 20 - 05:24 AM
GUEST,henryp 25 Mar 20 - 06:34 AM
Richard Mellish 26 Mar 20 - 12:26 PM
GUEST,Greg F. 26 Mar 20 - 01:42 PM
GUEST,Jerry 28 Mar 20 - 12:03 PM
Ged Fox 28 Mar 20 - 03:59 PM
GUEST,Jerry 29 Mar 20 - 07:10 AM
Mrrzy 29 Mar 20 - 04:03 PM
Joe Offer 29 Mar 20 - 10:43 PM
Felipa 30 Mar 20 - 12:36 PM
Donuel 30 Mar 20 - 08:13 PM
GUEST 31 Mar 20 - 02:59 PM
Jesse Bassfeller 31 Mar 20 - 03:25 PM
Donuel 31 Mar 20 - 09:56 PM
GUEST,Felipa 02 Apr 20 - 05:01 PM
GUEST,Felipa 02 Apr 20 - 05:19 PM
Donuel 02 Apr 20 - 08:11 PM
mg 03 Apr 20 - 02:06 AM
Donuel 06 Apr 20 - 03:13 PM
GUEST,crowlibrarian 06 Apr 20 - 05:10 PM
GUEST,.gargoyle 06 Apr 20 - 07:28 PM
Felipa 07 Apr 20 - 05:54 PM
Donuel 09 Apr 20 - 03:47 PM
Donuel 11 Apr 20 - 12:53 PM
Reinhard 11 Apr 20 - 01:06 PM
GUEST,Canberra Chris 12 Apr 20 - 06:30 PM
Mr Red 21 Apr 20 - 02:31 PM
FreddyHeadey 21 Apr 20 - 02:52 PM
GUEST,johnmc 21 Apr 20 - 04:28 PM
Jack Campin 25 Apr 20 - 06:45 AM
Jack Campin 25 Apr 20 - 11:04 AM
Joe Offer 26 Apr 20 - 12:38 AM
Jack Campin 26 Apr 20 - 04:38 PM
Joe Offer 26 Apr 20 - 11:46 PM
Jack Campin 27 Apr 20 - 05:33 AM
GUEST,Felipa 04 May 20 - 05:18 PM
Joe Offer 06 May 20 - 07:19 PM
Sandra in Sydney 10 May 20 - 12:10 AM
cnd 11 May 20 - 03:46 PM
Stilly River Sage 13 May 20 - 03:46 PM
Share Thread
more
Lyrics & Knowledge Search [Advanced]
DT  Forum Child
Sort (Forum) by:relevance date
DT Lyrics:













Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 03:18 PM

Well, it's one of the best parodies I've encountered. My thanks for information. ABCD.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 03:51 PM

Lesley Mair.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/no-flour-scotland-hilarious-alternative-12126008


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 06:10 PM

Thanks for taking the time to seek this out. ABCD.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 06:12 PM

Three-part traditional singing from Georgia in the Caucasus, a song from three Georgian students quarantined in Italy:

https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-italy-coronavirus/30486132.html


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 06:13 PM

Missed it the first time round, and not surprised at its "going viral".


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,SqueezeMe
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 10:23 AM

Pete Denahy's take on the crisis, from the point of view of a toilet roll manufacturer, really cracked me up (sorry!) when I heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuDEXsINNmc

I also enjoyed the suggestion from a YouTube respondent that some one should write a song from a tree's point of view on the TP shortages. Any takers?


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 09:48 PM

Perhaps someone would like to put a tune to this.                                                                           The Flight of Covid19.

The aircraft took off, coded Covid19 for a trip around the Earth,
A morbid bringer of mayhem and death, to those of earlier birth.
It had no care for anyone, as it swooped from town to town,
Causing coughs, sore throats and sneezes and bringing people down.
It travelled the world with amazing speed, deaths’ harbinger so cruel,
Brought out the worst in many folk, from Cleverest down to fool.
The media made its’ money from declaring all the worst,
Talked only of the negatives, so the panic bubble burst.
They wallowed in their stories, of deaths and bad infection,
They talked not of recovery, so great upon reflection
Even the clever went to grab all toilet rolls from the shop,
Despite the fact that common sense had told them all to stop.
The elderly were suffering , could not get goods and food,
All depleted because of idiots, stockpiling …..so rude!.
No-one cared but for themselves, or so it would appear,
But there were those who really cared, with loving hearts so dear.
What was considered good advice, the government provided,
But I have to say that common sense has just not coincided.
As the virus takes its’ course, its’ effects will take their toll,
A huge proportion will survive, but some will lose their soul.
Michael J Hill (c) March 2020.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 05:59 PM

From the grandson of a friend of mine, who went off on Spring break to trek to Machu Picchu and never made it, and got caught up among closed borders. To pass the time, he and his musical friends created a song and a video:
Powerless in Peru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoU2A6QJoKM


--Charlie Baum


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 07:04 PM

mg, Are the "Dancing at Wuhan" lyrics your own?
I like them.

Susan of DT, I thought Some Little Bug was from 1915?
I first learned that song from the singing of Sara Grey, who has a slightly different tune and lilt from the early recordings I've recently heard on youtube. I'm surprised to read that the song was part of "an operetta" and I'd be interested in knowing more about the rest of the operetta.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: mg
Date: 25 Mar 20 - 02:31 AM

yes...


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 20 - 05:24 AM

Like Mad Magazine I write parody songs all th time:


Subject: RE: BS: Sweet Caroline
From: Donuel - PM
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 08:01 AM

Where it began, I can't begin to knowing
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring
And spring became the summer
Who'd have believed it would come along
Hands, not touching hands
Reaching out, not touching me, not touching you

Sweet Quarantine
Good times never seemed so bad
I've been inclined
To believe we never could
But now I
Look at the night and it don't seem so lonely
We filled it up with only two
And when I hurt
Hurting runs off my shoulders
How can I hurt without holding you
One, not touching one
Reaching out, not touching me, not touching you…
Sweet Quarantine
Good times never felt so bad...

(the heart goes on)

Every night on TV
I see it, I hear it
That's how I know Covid goes on
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on
Here, there, wherever you are
I believe that the virus goes on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my nose
And my cough will go on and on
Covid can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go 'til we're gone

Once more…you open the door...


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 25 Mar 20 - 06:34 AM

As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I saw a young cowboy, wrapped all in white linen
Wrapped in white linen, as cold as the clay

      Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
      For now I lie wasted when once I stood strong
      Take me to the valley, there lay the sod o'er me
      I'm a young cowboy in a world that's gone wrong

I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy
These words he did say as I boldly walked by
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story
Once I loved life, now I know I must die

      Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
      For now I lie wasted when once I stood strong
      Take me to the valley, there lay the sod o'er me
      I'm a young cowboy in a world that's gone wrong

Go fetch me some water, a cool cup of water
To cool my parched lips, then the poor cowboy said
Before I returned, his spirit had left him
Had gone to his Maker, the cowboy was dead

      Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
      For now I lie wasted when once I stood strong
      Take me to the valley, there lay the sod o'er me
      I'm a young cowboy in a world that's gone wrong


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 12:26 PM

I offer no comment on this link, which was sent to me by a friend in the USA.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Greg F.
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 01:42 PM

Yes, these songs are all very amusing the face of TrumPublican lies, disnformation, refusal & denial of reality and scientific fact which will result in the deaths of countless persons.

May I suggest Patrick Sky's "Dance Of Death"? which also speaks to the wider context of Trump's Cult & their Covid 19 bullshit - 'a clock that's shaken hard enough....'

For thet matter Pat's "Songs That Made America (AmeriKKKa?) Famous is worth a re-listen. Shows ya how far we've come in more than half a century.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 12:03 PM

I’m sitting here and feeling lonesome
Got a sick note from that Boris Johnson, mm, mm
Life’s a bore now one has found
No more we go out on the town
And every neighbour’s gone to ground
In a country now that’s locking down

Home and housebound, we wail in chorus
Home and housebound
Home, where we’re isolating
Home, where there’s no escaping
Home, where no bug lies waiting
Silently for us

Now everyday we check news streams
More casualties and no vaccines, mm, mm
And every day’s the same for me
The movies and box set series
Plus dismal documentaries
At least no more soap operas to see

Tonight we’ll drink with Scrabble again
I’ll play the game but never win, mm, mm
Cos all my words are crap for me
The good tiles don’t come easily
I’m left with R, I, Zee and E
I’d win with PRIZE, but I need a P

I’m tired of this Coronavirus
If I survive all this old lockdown crisis, mm, mm
I’ll be glad of one more chance
I’ll go mad and learn to dance
I’ll party hard, so understand
From every club, I’ll be one man banned.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Ged Fox
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 03:59 PM

a song


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 07:10 AM

Fantastic, Mr Fox. I was going to say you need to get out more, but perhaps not at present.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 04:03 PM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CsHRvaYCJ7E


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:43 PM

"We’re All Home Bound" - Interesting parody of Paul Simon's "Homeward Bound":


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 12:36 PM

https://youtu.be/ykieEE1j9eA
"Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus!"
(a parody of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!)


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 08:13 PM

to the tune of under the sea


The sickest are always greener
In somebody else's State
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here at heaven's gate
Such wonderful things surround you
What is your ultimate fate?
In Quarantine
In Quarantine
Darling it's hotter
Down with a fever
Take it from me
Up in Montana they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
Navy's devotin'
Full time to boatin'
Way out to sea
Out there all the fish is happy
As off through the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy
They sad 'cause they got a cold
But folks on the land are lucky
Those on a cruise have a worse fate
One day when everyones sickly
eatin off the same plates
In quarantine
In quarantine
Nobody beat us
We jus breathed dust
Stuff we can't see
Its the old folks who are on the hook
Lots of meat for the young to cook
They got no troubles
Life is all bubbles
In quarantine out on the beach
In quarantine out on the beach
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally (Naturally)
Even the doctor and the nurse
They get the surge an ride the hearse
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Right here on line
Yeah, In quarantine
In Quarantine


(Under the sea)


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 02:59 PM

A bit of doggerel from my first day of the local stay at home order. There may have been drinking involved...

In my hometown there live a maid
Mark well what I do say
In my hometown there lives a maid
And she contracted CO-VAI-AID
I’ll go no more a rovin’ with you fair maid
Since COVID, oh COVID, since COVID’s been my ru-aye-in
I’ll go no more a rovin’ with you fair maid


First she coughed and then she sneezed
And now I fear I am diseased

Next came the toilet paper scare
Now I can’t wipe my derriere

Now says the mayor of our town
Get off the streets we’re shuttin’ down

Then comes a message from my boss
You’re non-essential, that’s your loss

Now all the bills are comin’ due
From the insurance, the hospital and the doctor too

When I’m dead don’t mourn for me
I can’t afford a eulogy



https://youtu.be/cfyMWBOmLLo


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jesse Bassfeller
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 03:25 PM

My apologies for the anonymous posting. You may blame me for the previous infraction.

And when the SPD gigs were canceled:

When virus eyes are cryin'
And the hoarders hoardering
By the lilt of their death rattle
Know the dearly departing
When virus smiles are hidden
Under masks so glum and grey
Well i don't give a fig or a feather
'cos we're bound to succumb anyway


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 09:56 PM

edited

Under the sea tune

The sickest are always greener
In somebody else's State
You dream about going 'up' there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here at blue heaven's gate
Such wonderful things surround you
What is your ultimate fate?
In Quarantine
In Quarantine
Each little griever
Down with a fever
Take it from me

Up in Montana they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
The Navy's devotin'
Hospital boatin'
Docked in the bay
Out there all the folks is happy
Like hot dogs snug in their roll
The old of the land ain't happy
They sad 'cause they got a cold
But folks on the land are lucky
Those on a cruise have a worser fate
One day everyones sickly
eatin off the same ol' plates
In quarantine
In quarantine
Nobody beat us
We jus breathed dust
Stuff we can't see

Its the old folks who are on the hook
Lots of food for the young to cook
They got no troubles
Life is all bubbles
In quarantine out on the beach
In quarantine
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally (Naturally)

Even the doctor and the nurse
They get the surge an ride the hearse
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Above the streets
Yeah, In quarantine
In Quarantine
playin the B ball
life is in free fall.
In Quarantine
The mail man can play
The grocers on strings
The krauts rockin' out
The agent she sings
The spanic and the black
They know where it's at
An' oh that trumpet blow
Yeah, In quarantine
In quarantine
When the projects
Begin the concert
It's music to me (It's music to me)
What do they got? A Stienway grand?
We got a hot apartment house band
Each little fam here
Know how to jam here
In quarantine
Each little bug here
Cuttin' a rug here
In quarantine
Each giant whale here
Know how to wail here
That's why it's better
Under the weather
Ya we in luck here
Stuck in New York here
in quarantine


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 05:01 PM

zThe classification isn't consistent, but


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 05:19 PM

The classification isn't being consistently adhered to, but I would say that this thread is mainly for newly composed songs and parodies; while the Songs for the Apocalypse discussion thread is mainly for older songs which are suitable to be sung in reference to the present pandemic crisis.

The number of relevent parodies posted on youtube is incredible. Parodies of Bomhemian Rhapsody, Over the Rainbow, Do re mi (Sound of Music, not Guthrie).

We already have two parodies of Sweet Caroline aka Deep Quarantine on this thread; well Neil Diamond has recorded a simpler one himself.
        
Two parodies, at least. of Joelene,
Quarantine (Joelene parody)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9egprpyRo Written by: Jesse Slack and Daryl Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bA8dZgLfY0 written by Carly Burruss + Chidima Ubah

parodies of songs sung by Adele, Bee Gees (Staying inside),Proclaimers, Billy Joel, John Lennon (Imagine), Rolling Stones (I can't get no sanitizer) etc etc.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 08:11 PM

tune: St James Infirmary (64 bars instrumental then lyrics.)

I got a case of the corona virus
Saw some nurses there
She stressed out in a long white hallway
So sweet, so scared, so fair
She let go, she let go, God bless her
from seeing all, the dead
I'm just one man in this wide wide world
But I felt, those tears, were for me
When I die I want to go to a mass grave
I won't be lone-ly there
and I'll have, my share, of tears
I got to feel, the kindness of strangers
Right up until my last chest crushing breathe
Ther'll be no social distance bout my death


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: mg
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 02:06 AM

here is new one. tune is now officially silver threads among the gold, sung faster than bing crosby did. Might have to tweak a bit to make the rhythm work. was originally thinking another tune.

WHEN THE WORLD GETS BACK TO NORMAL

when the world gets back to normal we will say all saints be praised
we will gather in our kitchens and our voices will be raised
out of glory out of gladness out of gratitude and grief
when the world gets back to normal there will be such sweet relief

when the world gets back to normal we will revel in the air
and the windows will be open and the weather will be fair
there'll be poppycocks and roses and the flowers of design
when the world gets back to normal it will be just mostly fine

when the world gets back to normal it's a come and get it day
when the trolleys run like clockwork and the children get to play
we'll appreciate the simple things we'll make do with what we've got
when the world gets back to normal it will be better than we thought

we'll give thanks for all the nurses and the postmen and the cops
and for all the other people who went to work and never stopped
we'll remember those who lost their lives and others that were rearranged
when the world gets back to normal we'll see that everything has changed

when the world gets back to normal we will say all saints be praised
we will gather in our kitchens and our voices will be raised
out of glory out of gladness out of gratitude and grief
when the world gets back to normal there will be such sweet relief


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 03:13 PM

Make my grave in the Trump Hotel,
Not a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Put it at the end of the escaltor,
On the doorstep of the great imitator .

Engrave Trump lies around my grave.
Like Arlington make sure that I stay
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fear & gloom.

I could rest in the noise of Fifth Avenue
On my birthday you can have free barbecue.
Try to manage a shriek of wild despair
Like a million curses in NY air.

I could not sleep if Trump went free
His dieing in prison is reason for glee
Such a cruel narcissist unfeeling beast
should be punished for his hateful beliefs.

Let my grave in the Trump Hotel help remind
how the US was fired, attacked by virus and died
One day Trump hotels will be demolished.
Maybe men like Trump will be abolished

We are now almost completely uninsured
No Obama care or employer added insurence
Little life saving equipment can be procurred
If you're old with conditions death is assured

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is that the unfiltered truth stays.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,crowlibrarian
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 05:10 PM

Here's a cheery one fer you -
Til All The Grievin’s Done

Once we gathered here to sing
Someday we'll gather once again
Til all the grievings done
Bearing all that we have known
We’re being tested to the bone
Til all the grievings done

B part
Seems we’ve never known such loss
Death has borne us bitter cost
Grief has sometimes brought us to our knees
we’ll come with our tears
Some of us no longer here
Til all the grievings done

Light gleams in your misty eyes
Sunshine still dances in your smile
Til all the grievings done
While there’s still more tears to come
Someday we'll hold you til they’re gone
Til all the grievings done

Some losing loved ones, some losing friends
Sometimes it seems there’ll be no end
Such times as these will haunt us all our lives
But we still have our tunes and songs
Still have love that keeps us strong
Til all the grievings done

If I'm not here to sing this song
Perhaps I’ve fallen now I’m gone
Til all the grievings done
May these songs bring you release
In their wake may all know peace
Til all the grievings done

Life has offered many gifts
Some I've known here in your midst
Where rhyme and rhythm rise in blessed song
It’s an ageless legacy
Sharing music lends us strength
Til all the grievings done


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:28 PM

I was a sceptic...and became a believer Friday de 13th.

A major song that keeps a refrain in my brain is:

When the lights go on again
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=10366#1522828

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN (ALL OVER THE WORLD)
by Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjemen, ©1942
As sung by Vaughn Monroe

*When the lights go on again all over the world,
And the boys are home again all over the world,
And rain or snow is all that may fall from the skies above,
A kiss won't mean "goodbye" but "Hello" to love.

When the lights go on again all over the world,
And the ships will sail again all over the world,
Then we'll have time for things like wedding rings and free hearts will sing,
When the lights go on again all over the world.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

archive.org .... aka Library of Congress

loc.gov


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: new Coronavirus Songs
From: Felipa
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 05:54 PM

I've come across two newly composed Corona virus songs in Irish. One is a translation of a new song in English, the other is set to the tune of Téir abhaile riú and you can find those lyrics at the Mudcat thread Teir Abhaile Riú or on youtube as "Fan sa bhaile riú".

The other song doesn't fit the traditional/folk mode but it comes with a challenge to you to translate into other languages: "Brí Carr Music

Well, because the message shared in our school Covid-19 song, 'Our song of hope' has grabbed the nation, and it's simplicity has taken us all by complete surprise, we are inviting children and schools from every corner of the world to create their own language version of Our Song Of Hope to share their own art and home-school/#StayAtHome ideas to YouTube and everywhere online. Our Song Of Hope will be available for download on Spotify/iTunes/Amazon and all the usual online music platforms from Fri. 10th April.

The backing track to the song is available to whoever wishes to take up the challenge worldwide. Simply contact bricarrmusic@yahoo.com and we will happily forward the English lyrics for you to translate as well as the original backing track to your school/music group/co-ordinator as well as a 'how to record at home' instructions sheet to encourage the children to productively engage in our very positive project. We will kickstart the challenge by uploading this, our native language version, as Gaeilge.. 'Ámhrán Dúchais', by the children of Lurgybrack National School, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, feat. Hannah NicPhaidín (An t-Oireachtas Winner U-15), arranged by ValleyMusic Music Studio, Ballybofey, written by myself, Brí Carr. Thanks to Ava and Cassie for designing the crest, to Nicolette Culloo for the cover design and Colm Ferriter for his invaluable help with the translation. We also hope that this further inspires other schools in Ireland will get in touch with us . We were delighted to receive both musical and vocal versions, thank you for crediting Lurgybrack School with your fantastic efforts. We hope to calm the minds, hearts and experiences of all children during these worrying times, and I want to personally thank each and every one of our wee superstars who worked tirelessly to create this memorable work. I could not be prouder of you all. Stay at home, Stay Safe and Stay Positive."

Amhrán Dóchais, Fan sa Bhaile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey0-kNjWtjg
Our Song of Hope original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZrNMcT8Xc


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 03:47 PM

We'll meet again
Don't know when
or how long
We'll meet again when Covid's gone.
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Till the blue skies drive the 4 walls far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won't be long
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song...


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 20 - 12:53 PM

Just A Number Now

A vacation in a foreign land
Airlines do the best they can
You're just a number now
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
Now you remember what the TV said
Nothing to do all day but stay in bed
You're just a number now
Oh, oh, you're on the frontline now
You'll be the hero of the neighbourhood
Nobody knows that you've left for good
You're just a number now
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
Smiling faces as you wait to land
But once you're there who gives a damn
You're just a number now
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
You have gloves and masks nd maybe a hood
One mistake and you're gone for good
If you want to survive, just stay in bed
You're just a number now
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
There is no cure until the end
You go for a drive and try to pretend
You're NOT a number now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
You've got your orders to stay indoors
Your hands's on your phone
But it don't seem right
You're feelin sick
or is it just a trick
Oh, oh, You're just a number now
Oh, oh, were all in the same boat now
Night is falling and you just can't see
Is this illusion or reality
Some don't want to believe TV
You're just a number now.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Reinhard
Date: 11 Apr 20 - 01:06 PM

Richard Thompson already sang in 1991 "Keep Your Distance".


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Canberra Chris
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 06:30 PM

In draft for the Shiny Bum Singers:

Kill the Lot - to Que Sera, Sera

When I was just a junior bug
I asked the old ones “How should I go?
Should I spare young ones, old, and the sick?”
But they all told me – “No”.

Chorus:
Kill the lot, the lot
Before there’s a vaccine shot
Though you think it’s cruel, it’s not
Kill the lot, the lot!

If they are young and doing well
Soon they’ll have seen as older ones fell,
That left without them life would be hell –
Better to kill the lot.

If they are old, their time is done
They’ve had their chances, time in the sun,
Now they can give us young bugs some fun –
Better to kill the lot.

If they are sick, or doing poor
They’ll use resources others need more,
And they’ll soon fill the hospital floor -
Better to kill the lot.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 02:31 PM

Cyril Ryan sings "My Brother Dermot" Not sure about title, but it is very COVD-19, very Oirish, & very funny - so it is. Begorra.

Probably needs a Fakebook account to listen.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 02:52 PM

^^^ just for the record
it is Dermot Ryan singing(brother of Cyril)

Great song and singing.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,johnmc
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 04:28 PM

Parody of "Another Day"

Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 06:45 AM

to the tune of Lannigan's Ball


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 11:04 AM

Bleach drinking songs, anyone?

Something along the lines of Fathom the Bowl or Little Brown Jug?


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 12:38 AM

David Ingerson sang this tonight. I hope he'll come and clean it up

Tune: Lanigan's Ball

In the town of Wuhan some germs from an animal made a big leap and infected a few, nobody thought it would be a pandemic and now the whole world is in a hullabaloo.

It didn't take long for the germs to go global in planes and trains and cruises by sea. Now locked in our homes and trying to stay sober we can't even watch the live sports on TV.

Six long months in Isolation, six long months doing nothing at all, six long months in isolation this lockdown is driving me up the wall.

I tried to go out got sent back in again. I went out again straight back in again. Sick to death of the social distancing finish the lockdown for once and for all.

The experts say keep two meters distance and never to gather in couples and groups, and eating at home is a feckin disaster I’m fat as a fool eating pasta and soups.

Now in the UK the virus was active and got the Prime Minister in number 10, I hope Boris Johnson recovers completely so that we can call him a dickhead again.

Six long months in isolation six long months without toilet roll. I wish to God I had constipation because I have nothing for wiping me hole.

I tried to go out got sent back in again. I went out again straight back in again. Sick to death of the social distancing finish the lockdown for once and for all.

Now Trump took it lightly there's no need to panic we’re under control sure tis only a flu he finally did what he promised the voters America first in the infections too.

Three long years with Trump as president three long years doing nothing at all talking shite and blaming China while Mexico begs him to finish the wall.

I tried to go out got sent back in again. I went out again straight back in again. Sick to death of the social distancing finish the lockdown for once and for all.

The end is in sight and the curve it is flattening lifting the lockdown is yet to be seen, washing your hands and staying at home is the only solution for COVID 19.

Six long months in isolation the planet has never looked greener before but back to the grind to pay off the mortgage. The world just won't be the same anymore.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 04:38 PM

I'm told this is funny but it's in Polish. Translation anyone?

https://youtu.be/wUS--eKGqBE


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 11:46 PM

Barbra Streisand has a song called "Don't Lie to Me":


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 05:33 AM

Going round FB - a picture of Dolly Parton captioned

Chlorine, chlorine, chlorine, CHLORI-I-INE!
Please don't drink it just because you can.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 04 May 20 - 05:18 PM

Jack Campin - there are at least a couple of Dettol be the Day songs on youtube, links are posted on the Trump's Lysol thread on Mudcat
------------
I just heard a Corona health precaution song on the radio. Country/Country Western Style. Can anyone say who the artist is and what the title is? Lyrics include these lines:

Corona, Corona we will beat you

Listen to the tv and the radio

Wash your face; keep your hands clean
Keep six feet apart; you know what I mean


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: ADD: Ray Frank Coronavirus Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 May 20 - 07:19 PM

Here's a good one, written and posted by Ray Frank (DADGBE)

This came to me today in a fit of either divine inspiration or something else. If you don’t recognize the tune, look up Woody Guthrie’s So Long It’s Been Good To Know Ya.

Anybody want to use it, go ahead. If y’all want too pay something, send toilet paper.


TITLE
(Ray Frank)

Well, the covid hit and it hit like thunder
It dusted us over, put us six feet under,
It blocked out our jobs and ended our fun
And straight for home all the people did run
    Singing so long, it’s been good to know ya,
    So long it’s been good to know ya
    So long, it’s been good to know ya
    This nasty old covid is getting me down
    And I want to be drifting along

We stayed in our houses, we sealed up the cracks
We wore masks and gloves, stuffed our ears with wax
We blamed the Chinese, we blamed Democrats
And those covidiot protesters sure have our backs

The churches were full, the churches were packed
And that dirty old covid made such an attack
That the Blood of the Lamb didn’t give us no help
In spite all that the preachers do yelp

I wash my hands ‘til my skin starts to crack,
I break out in cold sweat over sneezes and hacks,
I can’t get no nookie, I can’t get no hug
I’m just too afraid of that corona bug

We can’t wipe our asses, we can’t get no food,
The president tells us that everything’s good,
He says he’s got it all under control
But somehow, I don’t seem to trust him at all


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 May 20 - 12:10 AM

scroll down the page for Lou & Peter Berryman - November PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6UBfRzcEmk


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: cnd
Date: 11 May 20 - 03:46 PM

Jobless Worried Blues by Zac Sokolow. Features some nice clawhammer and two finger banjo playing


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 May 20 - 03:46 PM

The lyrics are posted under the song on YouTube. It's a great Coronavirus parody of a Bob Dylan song:

Bob Dylan parody Everybody Must Stay Home

Thanks to Little Hawk and gnu for sharing this one.


Post - Top - Home - Printer Friendly - Translate
Next Page

  Share Thread:
More...

Reply to Thread
Subject:  Help
From:
Preview   Automatic Linebreaks   Make a link ("blue clicky")


Mudcat time: 26 April 9:16 AM EDT

[ Home ]

All original material is copyright © 2022 by the Mudcat Café Music Foundation. All photos, music, images, etc. are copyright © by their rightful owners. Every effort is taken to attribute appropriate copyright to images, content, music, etc. We are not a copyright resource.