You can write songs about anything

Subject: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:38 PM

As Alaska Mike said in another thread.

So just for fun - What "anythings" have you written songs about?

Lets see some variety!!!!

Here's a few of mine...

A Shopping Cart
Plastic Flowers
Stars and Snowflakes
Leaving
Muddy River Catfish
Tumbleweeds
Highway 202
Spare Time

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:52 PM

An Old Blue Suit
A Screen Porch Door
A rooster
A No-account dog
A Ten Pound Radio

Jerry

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:36 PM

Loving to make coffee
Garden gnomes
The "Box" That The "Cherry" Came In
Trying to be a magician (I used to be one.)
The "oppressed life" of a student at the University of Minnesota (1952)

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Crane Driver
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:08 PM

A one-legged rigger
An early variety of canned meat
Elephants' teeth
The perils of borrowing someone else's horses

Andrew

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:23 PM

Some of us cant write songs about ANYTHING , and are reduced to stealing songs off you clever buggers !! So keep at it !

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:42 PM

Hi, Bert! Great thread! (And may I say to the rest of the group, who are most likely unfamiliar with Route 202, that it is a nightmare-highway well worth writing about! But I have not done so... yet...)

Just a few of the anythings I've written about are...

Bobbing for apples
C.R.S.
Gepetto
The fish of procrastination (i.e. the Shoulda-woulda-cuda)
Butterfly ballots
How fat I am
The Vietnam War memorial in Washington DC
Inflatable lawn ornaments
A cat who breaks up a marriage
The Bible's origins in myths
How I hate choruses

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:13 PM

Marmite
Bin bags
Malingering
TV remote control
Kipers
Bogies (nasal)
Christmas decorations
Clones
Flu

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:40 PM

Statistical mechanics

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Rosebrook
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:08 PM

My bandmate is the writer in our trio - his recent subjects include:

Losing his girlfriend to a woman who was met online
The old dog on the porch
You can find the B hanging out between the A and the C

Genius, pure genius!

Rose

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:45 PM

My Wife
My Father
My Brother
My Daughter
A young whaler's first kill
The Alaskan Highway
The 1964 Alaska Earthquake
Snowshoeing
Dog Sledding
Christmas
Moose
Clipper Ships
CSS Shenandoah
Lost love
Found love
A Mexican Bandito
Salmon
Halibut
Anniversary
William Wallace
Exploring Mars
Andersonville
A King Crab
Talkeetna Mountains
Flying in small planes
Carhartt brand clothing
Finding Gold
Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet
Occupational advancement
Friends and friendship
My great grandparents immigration
Guinness
Porter
Starvation
and many more subjects which I can't think of at the moment

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,ptsn1
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 09:14 AM

anything, thats whats so cool about writing.    http://www.myspace.com/wanabwriter

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Fred Bailey
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 09:47 AM

condoms

fredbaileymusic.com

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 10:28 AM

Some good songs there Fred.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 05:12 PM

Porcupines injured by falling from branches;
Water consumption by toilets and ranches;
Sloths whose coarse fur wears away sloth moth wings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Socks that Goodwill may find hard to recycle;
Nogies Creek bullfrogs (recorded by Michael);
Circuits that pick up the phone when it rings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Toads that cross roads though endangered by lorries;
Widow and knight from Boccaccio's stories;
Slow loris sex, where the male hangs and clings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Nobel prize winners who studied the quantum;
Bread-baking lessons, for those who might want 'em;
Why one should sit on a chair when one sings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Dung beetles sent to eat shit in Australia;
Webmasters' jargon and paraphenalia;
Folks who use condoms when having short flings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Starfish described in a 5/4 march meter;
Lions'-den Daniel, that great lentil eater;
Jews speaking Greek under Syrian kings --
These are a few of my song topic things.

Earthworm sex characterized with precision;
How the moon formed in a giant collision,
Bringing us solstices, autumns, and springs --
These are a few of my song topic things;

    Tools to look inside the colon;
    Barley-based strong drink --
    If you want to browse through my song topic things,
    You're welcome to click this link:
    http://www.thrinberry-frog.com/SongSheets.htm

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 02:46 PM

I forgot one.

"Momma Spit"

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Scoville
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:02 PM

The Boxcar Preachers have one about microsurgical vasectomy reversal.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:04 PM

Carbide precipitation on the grain boundaries
Hub caps
Platting fog

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Bob.D.
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:52 PM

The perils of borrowing other people's tunes.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:55 PM

Crabs. There are not many songs about crabs.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:13 PM

You can write a song about Jews who don't turn the other cheek, as Kinky Friedman did, and have NPR's irony-challenged Scott Simon declare it racist.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:18 PM

"Sixteen Thousand and Eight Legs"

She was just a harmless little gal
Eight legs and a tummy swell
Few days later and her kids did dwell
In my pubic hair

Seemed to dance all through the night
Do-si-do and alamand right
Must have been a strange, strange sight
In my pubic hair

(more stanzas go here--I can't be arsed)

If crabs were coins I would have riches
To go along with all my itches
But I killed the little sons of bitches
In my pubic hair

THE END

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: bobad
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:24 PM

Crab Jubilee         

Crab Jubilee! Crab Jubilee!
Crabs look so happy, so fancy and free!
So graceful, so tasteful, So glad to be
part of a wonderful Crab Jubilee!
The crabs come a dancin' Up onto the land! They merrily waltz right into your pan!
It's a joyous occasion. Something to see
The crabs celebrating the Crab Jubilee!

Chorus
Crab Jubilee! Crab Jubilee!
Sounds like death and dyin' to me!
The oxygen's used, decomposing algae.
So we can flee or die, that's Crab Jubilee!

My buddies, the oysters cement themselves down.
They're not built for moving around.
So like all the critters
that cannot swim far,
When the oxygen drops,
They die right where they are.

So when the crabs leave the water,
you know somethin's wrong !?
We'd much rather stay down
where we belong.
So when life underwater can't be sustained.....
Then we sadly depart as we sing this refrain.

Chorus

Water contains dissolved oxygen
down here we breathe
through our gills as we swim
down in the mud under the bay
bacteria decompose things every day
then the oxygen drops, OH NO !
most of life stops, OH NO !
anoxia, OH NO
where did the oxygen all go ?

Crab jubilee! Crab Jubilee
It sounds like death and dying to m.e
It isn't a party. There's no cause for glee.
It's sad to be part of a crab jubilee.
Ye,s I hope there's no more crab jubilee.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:34 PM

Epitaph on a Tombstone


Here deep [enough?] below us lie songs about crabs.
Please pass me a tissue; I need a few dabs.

Rest in grease.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:10 PM

Sing this to the tune of "On Top Of Old Smokey".

My aardvark wears snowshoes.
My grandmother's green,
And my red, neon necktie,
Can barely be seen.

My aardvark went shopping,
For a purple toupee',
When the F.B.I. stopped him,
On the Apian Way.

Then without any warning,
The G-man fell dead,
While visions of aardvarks,
Danced in his head.

Then a nine-legged chicken,
Laid an egg on his toes,
Which hatched out a Martian,
With a fourty foot nose.

The nose was so monsterous,
That it weighed down his head.
He turned with graet effort,
To the chicken and said,

"My aardvark wears snowshoes.
My grandmother's green,
And my red, neon necktie,
Can barely be seen."


Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 02:30 AM

Where next will we arrive at [sic, sick]?
Ballad of a Blind Mole Rat?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 02:43 AM

A funeral home with a drive-thru window

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:07 AM

OK.
How about a song about protractors?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Bruce Michael Baillie
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:40 AM

...Oy Uncle Dave-O, I've written 3 songs about garden gnomes!
Gnome on the Range,
The green, green garden gnome,
and
Gnome boys Gnome.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 08:25 AM

A friend of ours, John Dengate, has written, amongst many others, songs about:

Train timetables
Cricket
The internal combustion engine
Skin Cancer
Running a marathon
Gambling
Dental hygiene
The stock exchange
Changing to metric
Rectal bleeding

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 11:33 AM

Many of the songs above seem, from a consideration of titles, to tend towards the humorous. Bearing in mind some of the contributions to another current thread, re "What do you need to write (sic) a song", in particular those concerned with "having something to say" (even if it is only that "De Camptown racetrack five mile long..."), are there any examples among the Comic Songs above of their being genuinely satirical; that is, in the guise of humour, actually saying something more significant than that somebody has wee crustaceans....

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: LilyFestre
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:23 PM

One of my all time favorite made up songs was composed while a 10 year old girl and I were hiking in the woods, singing to keep away the bears. The song was about a mutual someone we didn't like because she treated everyone poorly (including her husband).

The tune? What shall we do with the drunken sailor...

One of the many verses:

She beats him with a frying pan
She beats him with a frying pan
She beats him with a frying pan
Early in the morning...

Not much to it at all but we got a good laugh out of it and didn't see a bear all day! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:46 PM

Joe, is that a song challenge or do you have a song about protractors?

And, An Buachaill Caol Dubh, All of my songs say something significant.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:01 PM

Keep in mind that John Deere and Case are protractors. Nothin' amateur about them.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:17 PM

I suggest the interested student or aspirant visit the Mudcat Song Book and review all the SONG CHALLENGE threads. I can't begin to remember all the topics. Scientists measuring bees, otters who want to go home, mooses attacking Volkswagens, showgirls throwing underwear, naked men on second-story drainpipes, headless chickens and mysterious chicken-murders and rooster-wranglers, free clothes and golden toilets, to name just a few. Not to mention two variants of the Incandescent Pickle and its uses, and the trials of the ladies who hostess at the Gentlemen's Club, and why women's lib is not all its cracked up to be, and lovers who meet during out-of-body trysts before they marry. Sisters buried in landfills and keys lost in outhouses, weasel-poop coffee, false teeth recovered from toilet drains... cowboys bit by snakes...whores operating beauty salons... the list just goes on and on.

A

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Dec 06 - 03:24 PM

Sweet Allis-Chalmers, I've rode you so long,
It feels like I'm glued to your wheel,
Your rusty exhaust pipe hums me a song,
That sounds just as bad as I feel . . .

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: M.Ted
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 05:53 PM

What songs are about is often quite different than the "subject"--

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 06:07 PM

"false teeth recovered from toilet drains"

That ain't funny!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 06:10 PM

Northern Lights
A Troller
Dust on Instruments
Lament for someone dead too young
Rain
Getting Better
Life after death
Golden Rocking Chair
Goodbye
Welcome after death

...
Hmmm. It's hard to condense a song into its parts.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:50 PM

Some of these won't come as a **great** surprise for anyone who knows me, but here's some selections from my songlist:

Amazon.com
Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9)
Cloning
Lunar cities
Toronto. Numerous times.
Daleks
Donuts
On-line friendships
Weddings (mine, specifically *grin*)
Cats
Pirates
Health care
Jimmy Hoffa
Futuristic hotels
Winter driving
Sedona (and Seattle, and Portland, and San Francisco)
IKEA
Anne Frank
Union construction trades

Actually, ought to post that last one...

-- Gary

I'm going to abuse me editing priviliges here and state that you should post ALL of them - Bert

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM

Rose, nice to see you!

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Peace
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM

I can't help but ask. How many rhymes did you find for 'car trunk' in the Jimmy Hoffa song?

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: bobad
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 08:00 PM

"false teeth recovered from toilet drains"

A friend of mine once swallowed a crown (tooth variety) and put his crap through a strainer for the next couple of days until he found it and had it replaced - true story.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 07:35 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Johnhenry'shammer
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 09:23 PM

The only song I ever wrote was a blues about a guy who misses his bus to work and gets fired and then kills his bosses family or something like that. I wish I knew where it was

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 11:07 PM

"swallowed a crown (tooth variety) and put his crap through a strainer for the next couple of days until he found it and had it replaced"
             Not my choice of a way to get shit-faced...

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Dec 06 - 11:10 PM

Yes, it was kinda in-your-face, wasn't it.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Psychomorris
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:26 AM

Ashes Cricket (tune of Spanish Ladies)

Farewell and adieu to you cricketers of old England
farewell and adieu your barmy army went wrong
We've bowled out our overs and left you a crying
Oh to win back the ashes did'nt take us that long.

CHORUS We'll rant and we'll roar like true Aussie cricketers
We'll rant and we'll roar at the wickets we got
Until the Ashes return to their true homeland
It'll be bloody hard going you sad Ponmmie lot.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: GUEST,Psychomorris
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:37 AM

Sorry about the interruption.( needed my treatment) I agree there is no subject or matter that can not be written about.
Ashes Cricket Cont.

The boys of our team they looked so entrancing
like bawling young bullocks the're out for their fun
With the yell of owzat and all kinds of prancing
Mcgraths fine balls takes another wicket for one

Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Aussie cricketers
       We'll rant and we'll roar at the wickets we got
       Until the Ashes return to their true homeland
       It'll be bloody hard going for you sad Pommie lot.

Then Clarke at Perth that hard bitten batsman
caused the trembling Pom bowlers to shit in the dust
where the bowlers got smashed by Hussey and Gilchrist
the poor Pom's couldn't get near them, Now thats what I call just.

Chorus

Then fill up your glasses and drink to our cricketrs
We'll drink this place dry and watch the Poms fall
For now we've won the Ashes from England
go on hurry off home cause we've buggered you all.

Chorus.

A crying Pom Psychomorris

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:19 PM

I don't write songs, but here are some of my favorite songs about surprising subjects:

I SHOT YOUR DOG by Fred Eaglesmith.

BRANCHING OUT by John Gorka. "When I grow up I want to be a tree."

SWIMMING SONG by Loudon Wainwright III.

NaCl (SODIUM CHLORIDE) by Kate McGarrigle.

GALAXY SONG by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.

Subject: RE: You can write songs about anything
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:42 PM

At one of Annamill's gatherings there was a guy who wrote a song called "I ran over Bruce Springsteen's Dog".