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

Subject: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Song Ten Out of Ten
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 08:09 PM

Ten Out of Ten by Jody Gallagher
"This is a song I have written in praise of all the people who are working their socks off to keep us healthy, safe and well throughout the Corona Virus Epidemic.."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: Sol
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 09:01 PM

I vowed from day one that I would not write a song that had anything to do with Covid 19. It's ruined enough of my life already and I don't want a continuing reminder of it, especially in song. But hey, that's just me, fill your boots with it if you so desire ...... I'm out.

Subject: Lyr Req: Six Feet Apart (Jody Gallagher)
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 09:10 PM

Six Feet Apart by Jody Gallagher
two different recordings of the same song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRAnbkOpWo sung by Frank Kilkelly and Orla Rose Kilkelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWi8IDc7ps Jody Gallagher

chorus
Six feet apart, that's how we'll all survive
Six feet apart - not three,not four not five
Let's follow doctors orders
....
We'll beat this thing together
Six feet apart.
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It's a popular title:

SIX FEET APART (Luke Combs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYTzZURtnJA

Chorus:
I miss my mom, I miss my dad
I miss the road, I miss my band
Giving hugs and shaking hands
It’s a mystery I suppose
Just how long this thing goes
But there’ll be crowds and there’ll be shows
And there will be light after dark
Some day when we aren’t six feet apart
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Alec Benjamin's "Six Feet Apart" with lyrics on screen.

SIX FEET APART (Alex Benjamin)

They say distance is relative
and relative to relatives
I have id say I'm relatively close
To breaking down
because right now
I feel so alone

I’ve been missing the elements
and wishing the elephant
in the room would leave
and kindly close the door
I cant ignore
him like before
not anymore

Oh I miss you most at
six feet apart
When you’re right outside my window
But can’t ride inside my car

And it hurts to know
just how lovely you are
And be too far away to hold
But close enough
to break my heart

I miss your smile
Feels like miles
Six feet apart

So far
so far but so close
Like a star
out in the cosmos
Can’t touch
the beauty I see
Thats how it all feels to me

So far
so far but so close
Like a star
out in the cosmos
Can’t touch
the beauty I see
Thats how
it feels at six feet

Space and time are interwoven
well at least that’s what we’re told
when I was young
I was suspicious
But its true
time sticks like glue
I feel so blue
here missing you

So I think Ill build a time machine
and go back to a time
when we didn’t need
to measure six feet on the ground
When I came around   
thats now allowed
I cant go back now

So I miss you most at
six feet apart
When you’re right outside my window
But can’t ride inside my car

And it hurts to know
just how lovely you are
And be too far away to hold
But close enough
to break my heart

I miss your smile
Feels like miles
Six feet apart

So far
so far but so close
Like a star
out in the cosmos
Can’t touch
the beauty I see
Thats how it all feels to me

So far
so far but so close
Like a star
out in the cosmos
Can’t touch
the beauty I see
Thats how
it feels at six feet

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 04:03 PM

"No Craic" [sic, crack even used in this sense is not a word of Irish or Gaelic origin; it came into the Irish language from English. I don't spell the word as "craic" if I am writing in English.]
but anyway, here is the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBM6yMiPpXQ&t=161s and here is a background story https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/the-eggs-factor-belgian-pop-star-philippe-robrecht-finds-fame-again-in-rural-irish-lockdown

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 06:01 PM

https://protestfamily.com/2021/12/01/oh-micron/

OH, MICRON!

Not oh-my-cron, little o
But ommi-cron, I don’t know
Why it should be so, but
The alphabet deflects damnation
From the variant’s home nation
And nu could be confused with new
And xi could be confusing too,
But Johnson called it omnicron   [Boris Johnson, UK p.m.]
And that is definitely wrong.

Meanwhile Coach JVT
Says we’re picking up injury
And a yellow card or three.
So, to avoid sending offs
With persistent coughs
He’s bringing on the booster shots
And masking up in all the shops
And trains and buses, at the stops
Unlike his cavalier boss.

But transport’s one thing
And shops are another
While pubs and restaurants
Don’t have to bother.
If it’s personal responsibility
What happens in hospitality
Ain’t the fault of their strategy.
“No sir, not us at all!”
When it’s all spaffed up the wall.

Now they’re bringing in the army,
Calling up the volunteers,
Rolling up their sleeves
Like antiviral engineers.
They haven’t cancelled Christmas
(That would be bad for business)
Although there have been whispers.
Not oh micron, but omicron
What could possibly go wrong?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 06:18 PM

youtube search for Omicron songs yields
OMICRON IS COMING TO TOWN - a Parody | Greg Trafidlo, Carole O'Toole & Don Caron
OMICRON QUEEN = Karl Wolf
THE OMICRON SONG - CARPO719 - "Because it's just a cool name.
And everything is funny now."
Omicron Song Parody Of Kodachrome — Forever Simon & Garfunkel
OMICRON Parody Song to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town -Jason Michael & Heather Grace Powers
Omicron, Omicron, Omicron - A Christmas Song - To the tune of Let it Snow. - Thom James

variety of styles, some have lyrics on screen. I haven't listened to any yet.

oh my Chron
and then I looked, and that is a song title as well

https://soundcloud.com/m-select/oh-my-chron

OH MY CHRON! I'ts a wiff Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEWL3qu9n0

that's enough for now!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: GUEST,Joe MacG in NS
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 09:31 PM

Early on in the pandemic, I was washing my hands so much and in the cooler weather too that my hands were so dry; I gave in and used hand lotion made by the brand Vaseline. I started singing to the tune Glycerine by Bush my own little song that went “ Don’t let your hands go dry … Vaseline.”

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: Monologue John
Date: 18 Apr 23 - 08:27 AM

Mary had a little Bug attributed to Bathgate High Bowling Club


Mary had a little bug
The one they called Corona
She caught it in a catch-up
With her pals Yvette and Shona

Who else was there ? I dinae care
We hadn't been out for weeks
Now Shona's blue in ICU
Too breathless when she speaks

Maary had a little cough ,
She dinae wear a mask
Instead she wore a sticker saying
I'm exempt don't ask

Coughing in the kitchen
As she plated up the scones
And the a round of filtered selfies
With all the girls Iphones

Mary had a little bug
And now so does her Granny
Her Boss her son
His pal his mum
For Mary is [an Ejit] or [a Fanny]

Subject: Ivermectin Prayer
From: Holly Tannen
Date: 20 Apr 23 - 09:49 PM

My friend told me his Christian sister refused to have her children vaccinated, but instead dosed them with ivermectin, an antihelminthic.


PRAYER

Oh God above, protect us from the evil Pharma giants
As You have protected us from viruses and germs.
Praise be for Ivermectin, it works on dogs and horses
Our kids may die of Covid, but thank God they won’t get worms.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 23 - 08:41 AM

Talking Covid 19 Blues

Well let me tell you ‘bout Coronavirus
It’s a nasty thing, and it could expire us
It might even prematurely retire us
‘Cos it doesn’t care, if we’re not there.

Well I don’t want to leave this human race
At least one person will miss my face
And in their life there’d be a me shaped space
They’d surely grieve, if I should leave.

So if like me you want to stay
You need to wash your hands many times a day
The soap and water keeps them bugs away
And I advise a : hand sanitiser.

Well this virus is called Covid 19
And it’s the nastiest sucker I’ve ever seen
It’s using us as a go between
You can get a dose, if you stand too close

So keep yourself and your folks from harm.
Cover up your mouth, sneeze into your arm
Don’t spread fake news, it’ll cause alarm.
If we all strive, we can stay alive.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: Neil D
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 03:34 AM

Here's one I posted to a previous thread about Covid songs. It was written in April, 2020 when we were just starting to realize what we were in for. After writing and posting it I shelved it as being too hopeless, too bleak.


Weeping

Early this morning I woke from my sleeping
The damp of my cheeks let me know I'd been weeping
Wide awake now, I can't get back to sleep
I sit on the bed and continue to weep
I weep for the aged and those who're infirm
I weep for the children no longer able to learn
I weep for the doctors, the nurses and such
I weep for a world denied the comfort of touch
I'm up and I'm dressed and having my coffee
I sit down and turn on some news
I watch for a minute to see how they spin it
I turn it off now I'm crying the blues
I weep for the stranded, desperate to get home
And those who're not only dying but dying alone
Those with no respirator who can't catch a breath
And those for whom triage has chosen for Death
It's lunchtime now and I better eat something
I'll cook the food my son left on the stairs
My wife the RN is now living at work
I'm here with my dogs, but alone with my cares
I weep for the families from whom a loved one was torn
I weep for the young and those yet to me born
I weep for New Yorkers who urgently asked
But now doctors are dying for the want of a mask
God damn it I wish I could stop all the crying
But they're pitching tents in the park to house all the dying
Its suppertime now but who feels like eating
With humanity taking such a bloody ass beating
I weep for our people whose leaders are senseless
I weep for the poor, the weak, the defenseless
I weep for those taken and those who are spared
I weep for the lonely and those who are scared
It's late at night and I take to my bed
I scruff up the pillow under my head
But my eyes defy me and continue to weep
As I strive for the silence and the darkness of sleep

                                  Neil Devore

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Coronavirus Songs (COVID-19; Pandemic)
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 24 Apr 23 - 04:22 AM

Has anyone else found that there isn’t a lot of interest out there now for Coronavirus songs, be they serious or comical? Having come up with several during the dark days of 2020-21, when we all had time on our hands, I thought people would enjoy seeing the funny side of it all when we came out the other side, apart from those of us who lost loved ones of course. I recall Youtube song parodies were attracting huge numbers of hits during the lockdowns, but I guess we welcomed some light relief at the time. Is it just too soon to joke about? Or is it that people are embarrassed about it all now and want to draw a line under it and move on? Then again, I suppose topical comic songs tend to have a limited shelf life anyway.