Song Challenge! Part 5

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 10:14 AM

Here's to the Gaelic Texan lass
And here's to the men who love her!
Who send in rhymes made late at night
And wake up thinking of her!
Who hang upon each merry post
That falleth from her lips
And wander 'round like mournful ghosts
Obsessed with her cow chips
Ten pints per man of Irn Bru
To ease a tortured brain
And here's to the lass we all turn to
Our Gaelic Goddess, Áine!

A

(Being Gaelic-challenged, I don't really know whether that last pair rhymnes or not, but it looks write on paper.)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 10:47 AM

Uh-oh, Amos! That rhyme is not gonna sit well with Aine! It's pronounced "Anya." And I think even you, my song-smith friend would, have trouble with a good rhyme for her name. Well actually, there is "branle."

--Mbo

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 10:56 AM

Well, when one word won't do, use several. "Who never seeks to pain ya" comes to mind but its too facile, p'raps, and I think you said it's ann-yia, not ain-ya... Stain ya is too suggestive. I don't know what branle is, my erudite amigo.

Oh, dear, and here I thought I would get some work done in alternative universe 001 (Reality-Land) today.

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 11:50 AM

Áine - upon ya; sonya; and then there's the old "Dubya", even comes from the same state! Aaarrrgghhhh!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 11:54 AM

Toast to An Irish Cowgurl

Here's to the Gaelic Texan lass
And here's to the men who love her!
Who send in rhymes made late at night
And wake up thinking of her!
Who hang upon each merry post
That falleth from her lips
And wander 'round like mournful ghosts
Obsessed with her cow chips
Ten pints per man of Irn Bru
To ease a tortured brain
And here's to the lass for whom we bear
Our grim creative pains
So say farewell to British Nell
Take leave of your Russian Tanya
Lift a toast to the Muse who drives us mad,
Our Gaelic goddess, Áine!


(That's Áine-which-is-pronounced-Anya, for we Gaelic-impaired patriarchal archetypes!)

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 12:00 PM

LMAOWROTF!!!!!!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Áine
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 12:36 PM

I'm right down there with ya, kat! Pardon me while I wipe the tears from my eyes . . . ah, that's better.

Amos, dear heart, what can I say? I'm honored by your toast and I'm going to make the dear hubby memorize it and recite it to me on a weekly basis . . . Thank you!

Dear Roger (the Lodger) a/k/a The Shambles,

You're a sweetheart, and I return the toast to all my dear Mudcat friends, with a large glass of RC Cola in one hand and a chocolate Moon Pie in the other!!

-- Áine (a/k/a The Gaelic Goddess) Does this mean that I have to give up my jeans and t-shirts to wear a toga?

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 01:08 PM

In the "Handbook of Rules, Regulations and Common Practices for Gods, Goddesses, and Dieties of all Kinds" it specifically states that goddesses may choose their own manner of dress. Demigods, on the other hand, must where whatever their worshipers most often percieve them to be wearing.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 01:19 PM

I think the Dieties section of the Handbook belongs over on the Just Desserts thread, MM...speaking of which, has anyone seen the cookie Minstress? Hope she didn't get pure bored to death with all the talk her cookies started.

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 01:30 PM

ie, ei, ie, ei, never could keep them straight.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Áine
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 02:53 PM

Message from the Goddess:

Please, no picking on my fashion consultant!

-- Áine (T.G.G.)

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 03:15 PM

Talk about upwardly mobile! A personal fashion consultant, an endless supply of Moon Pies, a dozen fanatic troubadours at her beck and call...she'll show up at the Tavern in a stretch limo wearing mink Levi's if we don't watch out!

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 03:24 PM

nah - probably a mink limo with stretch levis

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Micca
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 03:44 PM

Amos, is that Fur side out or fur side in? for the benefit of our deprived American friends, Irn Bru is Pt.1 of the Glasgow hangover cure. When you get up with the King of Hangovers drink a pint of Irn Bru, this gives your system a HUGE blast of glucose and rehydrates you. If it stays down, proceed to step two this consists of a Bacon Sandwich at least 1 1/2 inches thick , preferably with Brown sauce which you Americans may not know. If you keep both down, you are likely to feel much better in about an hour.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 03:51 PM

It might work!! In my youth, though, when I went in for that sort of self-punishment, my King-Size hangovers wouldn't let me keep down the sight of an Irn Bru, let alone the contents!

The thought of a bacon sandwich under those circumstances would have had an impact somewhat like drinking warm butter :>)

But I am no recent experience with these things because I have vowed never to have a hangover larger than a Bayer aspirin.

We're all a little past the fur side here, but I think even enchanted volunteer minks such as those used by TGG prefer to keep their fursides outsides as doing the reverse kind of messes up their digestive processes. [Don't even ask about the troubadours with the mink fur balls].

A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 05:40 PM

Amos, a Branle is an ancient French folk dance, made most popular during the Renaissance. There are 2 kinds of Branle: the Branle Simple (pronounced brahn-luh som-pluh, as your evil Quebecois twin could attest to) and the Branle Gay (bran-luh gey) La la la!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 05:48 PM

Ahh, knowledge! Thanks, most erudite Mbo. Saw a stranger in the Tavern, not long ago, looking for you with advice. But he tore off on a hog before I could learn any more. Mario was still there and he might know what the message was. I'll meanwhile practice the Most Gay Branle (which by the way does notrhyme with an-ya by my standards, any way! :>) A

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Mbo
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 06:39 PM

Sure it does--brahn-luh, ahn-yuh. See? It's one of those male/female rhyme thingies.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 07:47 PM

Depends on whether your Fench accent is derived from the ancient Norman or the modern Parisian.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 00 - 07:47 PM

French! French! And that's mandatory! :>))

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:26 PM

Who was the guy who wrote the Wizard of Oz?
What was he smokin?
Don't tell me he wasn't doing drugs
He had to be tokin'

Flying monkeys melting witches
Every minute the plot switches
Golden pavement symbolism
Giving me an embolism
Don't know what it is but it ain't wisdom
What was he smokin!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM

Much too short jack - can't you give us another verse?

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:13 PM

Hmmm

It makes my point. If I were performing It I'd just play it through twice and have a simple bridge like

Smokin Smokin Smokin

Or "He wasn't off to see the wizard, cause he had to be on something.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:15 PM

okay. I'm greedy, sorry.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:45 PM

I understand what you are saying. Just sometimes I think less is more. But by all means if you have an idea, write another verse!

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 04:01 PM

Apple trees with deadly pitches
Houses dropping onto witches
Poppy fields as red as fire
Burning scarecrows fate is dire
Don't know what it is, it isn't courage
What was he smokin?

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: SharonA
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 05:35 PM

May I?...

Hollow tin man needin' oilin'
Lion from a fight recoilin'
Little girl with red shoes croonin'
Big fake wizard gone balloonin'
Don't know what it is, but it ain't brain cells
What was he smokin'?

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Aidan Crossey
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 05:36 AM

To the tune of that Dubliners' standard "Surrounded by Water" (which they themselves parodied as "Dollymount Strand")

CHORUS
Ma chére Dorothy, you're my grá gheal mo chroí
You're the light in my window, the star of the sea
The minute you strode, down the yellow brick road
My heart was just filled with devotion

George Lucas makes films 'bout wars in the stars
James Bond drives around in powerful cars
(Complete with hi-tech mechanical powers,
When pushed they can navigate oceans!)

CHORUS

New boy Tarantino is often portrayed
As a lover of gore, but the films he made
When viewed with an open mind tend to put paid
To that sort of cynical notion

CHORUS

Martin Scorsese makes films that deal
With life in the raw, with the grim and the real
Many a critic of film may feel
That of talent he's got his fair quotient

CHORUS

But of all of the movies that ever were made
One, it is said, puts them all in the shade
It stars Judy Garland, a charming young blade
And it caused no end of commotion

CHORUS

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 11:33 AM

You guys did such a great job fillin out the last song, heres another. I've established theme but left it a little more open. We need a couple more verses a bridge and a title.

Dorothy's Dementia (working title)

Dark Side of the Moon to the Wizard of Oz
They say keeps perfect time.
I can't figure out...... because
I ain't even tryin'.

There once was a time when I tried drugs
and here is my only defence.
It seems like the times when I was high
Stuff like that made sense

(chorus)But now I'm straight and life is great
Because I don't Hallucinate
Mental trips they over rate
cause you always pay the freight

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 06:52 PM

The Wizard of Oz
Tune: If I Only Had a Brain

They say Frank, he was a thinker
And he even liked to tinker
With the language, just because
He just loved word-inventin'
So the novel that he sent in
Was the Wizard of Oz*

Down at Random House they sniggered
And at Harper, Row they figgered
It had far too many flaws
But that didn't stop George Hill
From raking in the till
On the Wizard of Oz

Now some say old Frank was tokin'
And some say he was smokin'
With a hash-pipe in his jaws
I say of those gals and fellas
They're just all completely jealous
Of the Wizard of Oz

Then old Metro, G. and Meyer
Ask if Baum's book is for hire
And they sign a legal clause
And soon Frank's story is seen
On the magic silver screen
As the Wizard of Oz

Many decades have gone by
And young people like to try
When the lion opens its jaws
To set "Dark Side of the Moon"
To provide the background tunes
For the Wizard of Oz

Though I've never been a hippy,
Well, I tried it, and it's trippy
And it really gave me pause
Synchronicity is groovy
And it's such a far-out movie
It's THE WIZARD OF OZ!!!!

Copyright ©2001 Alex Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

*Well, actually, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Subject: RE: SONG CHALLENGE! Part 5
From: Áine
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:57 PM

Your entries may be 'late', my darlin's, but they still retain the original 'flavour' of this Challenge! '-)

Winners of the Golden Cow Chip Award with Shamrock Cluster (The Shamrock Cluster is awarded for a very high level of imagination, imagery, and/or creative use of language in a song):

A Sort of Cynical Notion by derrymacash
Who Wrote the Wizard of Oz? by Jack the Sailor, MMario and SharonA
The Wizard of Oz by mousethief


Well done all, Áine