16 Feb 10 - 12:19 PM (#2840977) Subject: Songs for Battling Cancer From: wysiwyg With this post I request that this music thread be a permathread, and I volunteer to edit it. (I would also welcome someone else editing it.) It seems very strange to me that with the number of cancers that have invaded MudUniverse, we have not done a thread like this-- or if we did, I sure didn't find it. Links to already-posted songs welcome. Links to playable-online music videos and audios welcome-- if vid pls specify for those on slow connex. Newly-found lyrics welcome. Newly written songs welcome. Let's use Mudcat for ITS BEST! === Here's one just posted to start us all off: BRAID MY HAIR ~S~
-Joe Offer- |
16 Feb 10 - 01:53 PM (#2841079) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: YorkshireYankee Manuel Garcia -- moving song by David Roth; true story of a guy undergoing cancer treatment, and the support he received from family & friends (don't want to spoil the song by revealing the end) -- listen to it for yourselves... YY |
16 Feb 10 - 02:09 PM (#2841093) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: Tim Leaning http://www.myspace.com/heliankeys2006 Try this and play Take My Hand. Its By a mudcat person. |
16 Feb 10 - 02:32 PM (#2841124) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: Rasener Cancer Research (Eva Cassidy - Fields Of Gold) Advert Eva Cassidy - Fields Of Gold - full version |
16 Feb 10 - 04:06 PM (#2841222) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: wysiwyg Thanks, folks, keep 'em coming. ~Susan |
16 Feb 10 - 09:36 PM (#2841566) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: open mike David Roth's Manuel Garcia was my first pick.. a very moving piece. I think Kate Wolf may have written some songs while she was fighting leukemia...there was one called Medicine Wheel that seemed as if it might have reference to the painkillers she was on.. or there might have been some images resembling hallucinations included in a song of hers.. do not have this in front of me at the moment.. |
17 Feb 10 - 05:57 AM (#2841711) Subject: Lyr Add: CANCER'S A FUNNY THING (J. B. S. Haldane) From: Young Buchan Many years ago I was asked to sing at a singaround to raise money for Cancer charities. I thought I'd better have something appropriate to the occasion so I dug out an old poem by the scientist JBS Haldane, which he wrote when he was diagnosed with cancer to try to make it all sound less terrifying. I set it to a vaguely folk tune and cut it a fair bit. I can no longer remember the cuts or the tune (I think it was shanty-related!), but here is the original material if anyone wants to try doing anything with it themself. I wish I had the voice of Homer To sing of rectal carcinoma, Which kills a lot more folks, in fact Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked. Yet, thanks to modern surgeon's skills, It can be killed before it kills Upon a scientific basis In nineteen out of twenty cases. I noticed I was passing blood (Only a few drops, not a flood). So pausing on my homeward way From Tallahassee to Bombay I asked a doctor, now my friend, To peer into my hinder end, To prove or to disprove the rumour That I had a malignant tumour. They pumped in BaS04. Till I could really stand no more, And, when sufficient had been pressed in, They photographed my large intestine, In order to decide the issue They next scraped out some bits of tissue. (Before they did so, some good pal Had knocked me out with pentothal, Whose action is extremely quick, And does not leave me feeling sick.) The microscope returned the answer That I had certainly got cancer, So I was wheeled into the theatre Where holes were made to make me better. One set is in my perineum Where I can feel, but can't yet see 'em. Another made me like a kipper Or female prey of Jack the Ripper, Through this incision, I don't doubt, The neoplasm was taken out, Along with colon, and lymph nodes Where cancer cells might find abodes. A third much smaller hole is meant To function as a ventral vent. So now I am like two-faced Janus The only god who sees his anus. I'll swear, without the risk of perjury, It was a snappy bit of surgery. My rectum is a serious loss to me, But I've a very neat colostomy, And hope, as soon as I am able, To make it keep a fixed time-table. So do not wait for aches and pains To have a surgeon mend your drains; If he says "cancer" you're a dunce Unless you have it out at once. For if you wait it's sure to swell, And may have progeny as well. My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun". Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats - So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit. |
17 Feb 10 - 02:23 PM (#2842174) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: open mike I just remembered an "album" by http://www.cindybullens.com/ which is a benefit for a children's cancer center...in memory of her daughter Jessie http://www.jessiefoundation.org/help/ and here is one posted on another thread...Randy Owen, Braid My Hair http://www.cmt.com/videos/unplugged/randy-owen/255279/braid-my-hair.jhtml |
17 Feb 10 - 09:35 PM (#2842554) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: GUEST Zig and Siusan have a recording clip on this page, of a perky little song called "The Very Breast Present Ever" http://www.myspace.com/zigandsiusan |
17 Feb 10 - 09:52 PM (#2842567) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: GUEST,pattyClink Sorry about that 'guest' post, it was inadvertent Also on that Zig and Siusan page is a song "Another Day", it is a great song about the process of getting through a cancer 'storm'. |
10 Mar 10 - 11:23 AM (#2861065) Subject: Lyr Add: SECOND WIND (Claire Lynch) From: wysiwyg Second Wind SECOND WIND (Claire Lynch & Pamela Brown Hayes, Songs of Polygram Int'l Pub., Inc. - Sound Cell Songs, BMI) 1. Somethin' familiar blew in with the wind-- A dream I let fall by the wayside. I find myself yearnin' to live it again; Now, there's no stoppin' me this time, 'cause CHORUS: I've been surveyin' the shape that I'm in-- Wasted and weary and wearin' it thin. I know where I've been but who knows where I'm goin'? I feel a second wind blowin', blowin' my way. 2. The first time around you don't know what you have Until the day comes when you lose it. Now, I'm gettin' ready for my second chance; This time I won't refuse it, 'cause--CHORUS INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE BRIDGE: I won't be denyin' my heart any longer; The longer I wait, this feeling grows stronger. CHORUS SH |
10 Mar 10 - 01:38 PM (#2861178) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: Mary Katherine Peter Yarrow wrote this song for a friend who had cancer. It's called "With Your Face to the Wind" ("Hariett's Song".)Peter, Paul & Mary recorded it on an album called Flowers And Stones. http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/16-07.htm |
10 Mar 10 - 03:03 PM (#2861242) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: I HOPE YOU DANCE (Sanders/Sillers) From: wysiwyg I Hope You Dance (youtube video) Roughstock.com/COWPIE lyric and chords:
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14 Mar 10 - 09:29 AM (#2863863) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: oldhippie The Colonoscopy Song - Peter Yarrow_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvpfrnmJrg |
14 Mar 10 - 12:45 PM (#2863965) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: wysiwyg LilyFestre mentioned Rumi's poetry in another thread. I think this thread should include pomes, too. :~) ~Susan |
14 Mar 10 - 05:40 PM (#2864112) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: oldhippie Krysta Youngs, a singer/songwriter from Boston, MA released a song, "I'll Believe In You", inspired by her mother's battle with breast cancer. The song is available for free download at www.krystayoungs.com |
28 Apr 15 - 09:45 PM (#3705019) Subject: Lyr Add: THE COLONOSCOPY SONG (Peter Yarrow) From: Jim Dixon OldHippie mentioned this a couple of messages back, and provided a link to YouTube. It's also on Spotify. THE COLONOSCOPY SONG As sung by Peter Yarrow; released as a single, 2010. When I had my colonoscopy, I had a question on my mind: Do we all look the same when the doctor sees us from behind? Then I had the answer; I felt like such a fool, 'Cause the doctor smiled and said to me: "Your colon's really cool!" My colon's really cool! What a nice surprise! He sees a lot of colons but my colon took the prize. Then he added something that was even more divine: "We found a polyp hiding, Peter, but we caught it just in time." He found a polyp hiding; don't mean to sound so crass, But the polyp was discovered by a cam'ra up—* My mother and my father spoke to me that very day. They said: "My son, it seems you've won the polyp prize. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!" Now the cam'ra that they used is not like the ones on movie lots. It's a cam'ra that is tiny and it takes interior shots. It's a cam'ra that is groovy; it can twist and turn and bend To film your colon's story and insure a happy end. So listen to me closely, for this is not a lie: Colon cancer can be beaten if you are not cam'ra shy. Call your doctor swiftly, no ifs or ands or buts. Schedule your colonoscopy; I know you've got the guts. My colon's really cool, and what a nice surprise! My doctor sees a lot of colons but mine took the prize. Mine took the prize, my friends; mine took the prize. My colon's really groovy so my colon took first prize. [* This line is run on with the next one, not missing a beat.] |
28 Apr 15 - 10:07 PM (#3705029) Subject: Lyr Add: THE COLONOSCOPY SONG (Stu Moss) From: Jim Dixon A different song on the same topic. I found this on Spotify. THE COLONOSCOPY SONG As sung by Stu Moss on "Look at Me" (2005). I don't like getting older; it doesn't seem quite fair. Your memory fades, you need a hearing aid, and you lose your hair. The young men get the women, but I don't give a damn, 'Cause there's something I get more often than any younger man: A colonoscopy, a colonoscopy. It stirs such feelings so deep inside of me, And for a modest fee, A colonoscopy Opened up a whole new world for me. A tiny TV camera four feet inside of me, Some Valium, and a very large sum, and some Vaseline. I don't have much courage; I know myself, no doubt, But my gastroenterologist knows me inside out. A colonoscopy, a colonoscopy— I find I'm dreamin' of Someone with rubber gloves— Not a sigmoidoscopy, 'Cause a sigmoidoscopy Is just a semicolonoscopy. And I saw the whole thing on TV, And it opened up a whole new world, It opened up a whole new world, It opened up a whole new world for me. |
29 Apr 15 - 03:17 AM (#3705082) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: Jack Campin There is quite a lot of evidence that people who conceptualize their response to having cancer as a "fight" or "battle" tend to suffer more and die sooner than those who don't see it as a suitable target for aggression and violence. Maybe the thread title is asking for the wrong thing. (Most of the songs mentioned don't in fact militarize it, anyway). |
29 Apr 15 - 09:34 AM (#3705154) Subject: RE: Songs for Battling Cancer From: Murpholly For friends battling cancer we have always sung "Don't give up till it's over, Don't quit if you can" as performed by Ronnie Drew of the Dublingers who himself eventually succombed to cancer. |