BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 01:16 PM

Unreal.......If I was ever sorry I started a thread, this would be it..........Geeziz...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 01:17 PM

I think there are lines that civilized people don't cross....mg

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 01:29 PM

Here is my answer; I borrowed the tune from The Green Fields of France, and also some of the phrasing. Without permission, so I am not claiming authorship here.

Lament Of the Crematory

O where have you gone, my grandmother sweet
I thought that I had your grey ashes to keep
But sad lamentations are rising now here
It isn't just you who has vanished, I fear!
I see near your gravestone more mourners so sad
And some now are wondering, where is dear old Dad?
We all thought you resting in peace somewhere nigh
With no more earthly ailments over which to sigh
CHO:
Did they burn the fire slowly
Did they cremate your lowly
Earthly remains, which you thought left behind?
Did Ray Marsh hide you out in his forest?
Now will Sperry, ME, find your last place to rest?
When you died we all grieved and wept sorely for thee
But that was way back in nineteen-ninety-three
Last week we were happy you'd seen our young strife
And though we still missed you, we'd gone on with life
But now that we know you are not where we thought
We cannot rest easy not knowing who brought
Your ashes, or mortar dust, home to us then
And we weep and we wail, all over again
CHO
So now they have dogs and they search through the day
Finding bones and small pieces, and mummies, they say
Some lay in the dirt, which we'd shunned for your sake
With others in backyards, the woods and the lake
So far the lost dead number hundred times three
And each day they find more, just wait and you'll see
A long prison sentence looms for Ray Brent Marsh
But the grieving still weep and their mourning is harsh
CHO
So now Noble, Georgia's on Lexis.com
And no-one can know when their love will come home
To rest, for a while, on a mantelpiece shelf
In an urn or a box with an ornate old elf
The bones from those piles are nobody's now
There isn't enough DNA to allow
For proper identification for all
For O how much longer shall our sad tears fall?
CHO

I hope I have not offended anyone, especially the author of the original song or tune.

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 01:32 PM

Oh, I didn't ask LexisNexis for permission either. Oops...

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 05:18 PM

Well, I am FAT because I eat too much.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Feb 02 - 05:44 PM

Now that is what I call royal thread drift!

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Feb 02 - 10:01 AM

I made this post to the "Creamatorium [sic] Debacle" thread yesterday, asking people's opinions as to whether I should ask Pene Azul to remove my parody song from that thread. In fairness, I think I should also ask people who are following this thread but not that one. So, here's a link to my post: post from SharonA 21-Feb-02 - 07:13 PM: "Should it stay or should it go now?"

What do you think?

Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Genie
Date: 24 Feb 02 - 01:20 AM

Capri,
Actually there was at least one parody not too long after 9-11 -- the Banana Boat Song parody (Come Mr Taliban, turn over Bin Laden).

I fully AGREE, though, that song challenge!s should not have to be funny.  Why not have challenge!s that evoke beautiful, moving songs sometimes?

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 11:40 AM

Sentiment and hysteria aside, here's my response:

We Never Did Care Too Much for Grandma

(Tune: Little Old Sod Shanty on the Plain
or Okie from Muskogee, as preferred)

We really never cared too much for Gramma;
We didn't like the way she'd piss and moan
But we're feeling kinda blue,
And we're half-inclined to sue,
At the disrespect they showed to Gramma's bones.
 

Chorus:

She was much too bad for heaven

And much too mean for Hell.

So where our Gramma ended up,

No-one can really tell.

And I'm not surprised her horny hide

Was much too tough to burn,

But what the hell is that in Gramma's urn?

Ol' Gramma always acted like a hellion,
We couldn't stand the things she'd say an' do
Though her spirit was like leather
They left her bones out in the weather,
Now she's out there causing grief for someone new.

Cho.

Now we don't much care what became of  Gramma;
Up-town or 'cross the tracks, it's all the same
We can't know her brand new handle
But this crematory scandal
Is a dirty downright slur on Grampa's name

Cho.
 

We really never cared too much for Gramma;
We didn't like the way she'd piss and moan
But we're feeling kinda blue,
And we're half-inclined to sue,
At the disrespect they showed to Gramma's bones.
 

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 11 Mar 02 - 07:08 PM

SharonA --- Way back in this thread (which I've only just picked up on) you said: "Re my own body: If it were possible in this day and age, I would want to be buried without a coffin and to be allowed to decompose and let the nutrients of the body return to the earth. But I don't think that's legal."

Well I don't know about where you are, but here in the U.K. 'green funerals' are becoming quite common. A quick search brought up www.naturaldeath.org.uk (sorry, don't know how to do a blicky) which has details of about 130 woodland burial grounds and the possibility of using cardboard coffins to ensure rapid bio-degradability.The site also had links to the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

BTW, I hope you don't need their services too soon!

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Mar 02 - 05:17 AM

SharonA: I agree with your initial posting, The perpetrator should be dealt with: Did you mean the person who failed to cremate the bodies, or the perpetrator of the song ??
Seriously though, Leave the song and the link in. Removing it would suggest that it should not have been included at all, and ones immediate response to anything, either good news, or atrocity, is often a truer reflection of its impact.
No-one writing a song now about the Titanic could capture any of the immediacy of feeling at the time. In a few years you can look back and decide whether your response was appropriate, but remeber, that will be a different you.

Subject: RE: BS: I think there's a song challenge here!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Mar 02 - 06:23 AM

Amos, you have done it again. Just the right touch IMHO. Sat here singing it to an amalgamated tune and frankly it sounds pretty old-timey including the lyric! Great job!! Once again, you ARE da' MAN!!!

Spaw