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12 Apr 02 - 08:00 PM (#688877) Subject: lyrics that work with different melodies From: The Hiker The lyrics of one of the best known Irish Rebel songs Sean South of Garryowen can be sung exactly with the melody of that great loyalist ballad The Sash. (Much to the annoyence of our Orange brethren) Is anyone aware of any similar songs with interchangeable lyrics and melodies |
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12 Apr 02 - 08:02 PM (#688879) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: catspaw49 Sure...the classic is Amazing Grace to the tune of the theme from Gilligan's Island...........and of course the inverse too! Spaw |
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12 Apr 02 - 08:16 PM (#688882) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: MMario and 'House of the Rising Sun' to either of the above - and vice-versa twice. |
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12 Apr 02 - 08:45 PM (#688897) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Joe Offer Try Tom Paxton's "Marvelous Toy" to the tune of "The Griesly Bride." Truly spooky. -Joe Offer- |
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12 Apr 02 - 08:50 PM (#688900) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: hobbitwoman Danny Boy - Londonderry Air If You Were To Wake Up - Farther Along Silkie - I Come and Stand at Every Door Annie |
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12 Apr 02 - 08:51 PM (#688901) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Jeri Also see this thread. You can sing Kilkelly to the tune for Rolling Down to Old Maui if you change Maui to 3/4 time. Try it. |
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12 Apr 02 - 09:47 PM (#688919) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Hobbitwoman, Danny Boy IS sung to the tune of Londonderry Air. Are you saying you normally sing it to a different tune? If so, which one? |
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12 Apr 02 - 10:00 PM (#688923) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Genie The Tramp On the Street works with the tune to Farther Along, so presumably, the reverse would be true. You can switch This Land Is Your Land and You Are My Sunshine with only minor tweaking here and there to make the meter fit. Puff, the Magic Dragon and Onward, Christian Soldiers switch really well. |
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12 Apr 02 - 11:06 PM (#688938) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: GUEST,adavis@truman.edu For literary types: pretty much all of Emily Dickinson's poetry can be sung to "The Yellow Rose of Texas" or "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle." Trouble is, you do it once and you've ruined the poems forever. But a lot of them sound really good to "Amazing Grace." |
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12 Apr 02 - 11:25 PM (#688946) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Robin2 for fun try singing The Who's "Pinball Wizard" to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" Robin |
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12 Apr 02 - 11:58 PM (#688956) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Celtic Soul There's a band from Texas named "The Corsairs" that does sea shanty's and nautical music. On one of their CD's, they do about 15 different tunes with the words from Amazing Grace...things you wouldn't expect. I'll have to give it a listen again soon, and let you know which ones. Too funny! :D |
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13 Apr 02 - 02:07 AM (#688993) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Jon Bartlett My favourite: "The Wild Colonial Boy" to "Ghost Riders in the Sky" but I can also recommend (to those of you who like a good bellow) "Clementine" to "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" (you may know it as "... Great Redeemer"). |
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13 Apr 02 - 04:04 AM (#689011) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: C-flat David Bowie's old hit "Life on mars" has the same chords as Sinatra's "My way" |
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13 Apr 02 - 09:15 AM (#689087) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: catspaw49 GENIE.....And with the same minor amount of tweaking, you can also sing "Darlin' Pal of Mine" along with TLIYL and YAMS!!! In an effort to piss off all the James Taylor fans, it is a fact that you can sing any JT song to the tune of "Fire and Rain." Spaw (not running too fast since JT fans are virtually catatonic anyway) |
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13 Apr 02 - 12:59 PM (#689193) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: MMario Seamus Kennedy does a 'salute to the Armed forces' that is pretty much all the various Armed Service Humns set to different tunes. Hilarious! |
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13 Apr 02 - 01:20 PM (#689208) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Genie another thread on this topic |
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13 Apr 02 - 01:47 PM (#689229) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Genie Another one hereSwitching lyrics and melodies.
I know I mentioned it in one of these other threads, but a beautiful "switch" [from Garrison Keillor's high school days] is this: |
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13 Apr 02 - 02:11 PM (#689243) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: McGrath of Harlow Kevin Barry and The Sash are interchangeable too - even have the same chord structure, so you could do it as a duet with the two tunes as countermelodies. Go on, I dare you... |
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13 Apr 02 - 02:25 PM (#689252) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Genie Speaking of countermelodies--which is another word for "partner songs," I'm linking to that thread, to see if you folks have some to contribute. I'm not sure a lot of people were familiar with the term "partner songs," and I couldn't think of the word "countermelodies" at the time I named the thread. Genie |
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13 Apr 02 - 05:57 PM (#689396) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: technission OK, now - *silently* sing yourself the following little verse - To the tune of "House Of The Rising Sun" Or "Amazing Grace" Or "Little Town Of Bethlehem" An earlier thread-It mentions this But I'll repeat it here How "Little Town-Of Bethlehem" Can be sung to "Rising Sun" LOL all around. And if you're not a music maker yourself, there is a fine recording of "...Bethlehem" to "Rising Sun" done by "Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio" on the disc "I Am Santa Claus", Atlantic Records. If you can handle a bit of Christmas irreverence, this is an album that also has "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear" (tune:Winter Wonderland); "I Came Upon A Roadkill Deer"; "Teddy The Red-Nosed Senator"; and many other side-splitters. "Manger 6" is spoken to the Motel 6 "Tom Bodette" advertising melody in background, and the album wraps up on the dark-humor side with "O Christmas Tree" where the traditional "Tannenbaum" melody is accompanied by tuned (well, probably sampled and re-processed) chainsaws and the sound effects of trees being felled. Standard disclaimer: I don't even own stock in Atlantic Records nor did I write any of the songs/ music on this album but if you have disposable income for topical/ limited-use humorous musical satire this is a great one to go buy! |
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14 Apr 02 - 04:46 AM (#689664) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Genie "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House Of The Rising Sun" is often mentioned as a gag, but I recently heard a gospel/soul group do it that way as a serious number and it sounded great! Genie |
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14 Apr 02 - 04:52 AM (#689667) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: GUEST,LynnT The DC-area group Clam Chowder does a wonderful version of the medieval Deo Gratias Anglia to the tune of the Banana Boat Song. They sing one verse straight first --
Our King went forth to Normandy
before the tenor breaks out into Belafonte's
Deo! The calypso rhythms start, and it all goes downhill from there. In Sacred Harp music, there's the concept of Common Meter -- 4/4 time with a particular line length. Anything in CM, such as Amazing Grace, can be sung to the tune of anything else in CM, such as O Little Town of Bethlehem, or House of the Rising Sun, or Yellow Rose, or many more. LynnT |
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14 Apr 02 - 11:51 AM (#689787) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Mrs.Duck Spancil Hill to Ghost Riders in the Sky |
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27 Aug 03 - 08:18 PM (#1009297) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: The Fooles Troupe refresh |
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28 Aug 03 - 08:27 AM (#1009515) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: JJ Robert Frost's poem which begins, "Whose woods these are I think I know..." fits nicely to Gordon Lightfoot's, "Early Morning Rain." |
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28 Aug 03 - 11:21 AM (#1009625) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Uncle_DaveO Do Virgins Taste Better, originally (as far as I know)sung to the tune of The Irish Washerwoman, fits nicely with Sweet Betsy From Pike (also known as Villikens and His Dinah), which is the way I sing it. Dave Oesterreich |
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28 Aug 03 - 02:23 PM (#1009734) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: GUEST,Marta Matt McGinn used to sing the words of Kevin Barry to the tune of the Sash, as McGrath pointed out above. Of course this was a deliberate way of dealing with bigots asking for one song or the other. It is also a nice way of using the fine tunes which many orange songs are made up of, without using their sentiments. |
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28 Aug 03 - 03:00 PM (#1009760) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Bee-dubya-ell I do "Purple Haze" to the tune of the theme from "Green Acres". |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:05 AM (#1010080) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Trevor We're regularly asked at gigs "Do you know 'Wild Rover'?" or "Can you do 'Streets of London'?" Solution's obvious! |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:25 AM (#1010183) Subject: RE: lyrics that work with different melodies From: Nerd We used to do Clementine to the tune of Beethoven's ninth symphony. Pretty cool when you come to the "Oh My Darling" part! |