songs that mention Greek/Roman deities and myths
Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa
Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths. I know that
ya'll are smart, so I figured you'd be of tremendous help to me. [It's for a
strange little project i'm working on.]
Anyhow, this is the VERY small list I have so far.
Cupid - Sam Cooke
She's So High - Tal Bachman (mentions Aphrodite)
Jupiter - Jewel (mentions Venus and Jupiter)
Sometimes It Be That Way - Jewel (Aphrodite, Neptune)
Stupid Cupid - (who is the artist on this song, i forget?)
Also, i know that there is a country song by a male singer/group that has a
line, But, I thought I was strong . . . Like ol' Hercules." Can anyone confirm
artist/title for me? I -think- it's called, "Texas Sized Heartache".
thanks a whole bunch in advance... :)
-Lise (my left shift key is broken so pardon any screwy sentences...)
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former - Albert Einstein
Shagorama Productions
http://shagpro.simplenet.com
mamu
--
"I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song."
mamu
in the context of their person or could it also be as in the planet they
represent? Also, let me understand, you want muses, nymphs, demi-gods, or just
ordinary folks as long as it is in greek/roman myth-- right? Just clearing it up
for myself --mamu
mamu
SAIGON BRIDE
(Music by Joan Baez, Lyrics by Nina Duscheck)
Farewell my wistful Saigon bride
I'm going out to stem the tide
A tide that never saw the seas
It flows through jungles, round the trees
Some say it's yellow, some say red
It will not matter when we're dead
How many dead men will it take
To build a dike that will not break?
How many children must we kill
Before we make the waves stand still?
Though miracles come high today
We have the wherewithal to pay
It takes them off the streets you know
To places they would never go alone
It gives them useful trades
The lucky boys are even paid
Men die to build their Pharoah's tombs
And still and still the teeming wombs
How many men to conquer Mars
How many dead to reach the stars?
Farewell my wistful Saigon bride
I'm going out to stem the tide
A tide that never saw the seas
It flows through jungles, round the trees
Some say it's yellow, some say red
It will not matter when we're dead
mamu
The Bonnie Flag with the Stripes and Stars
by: Col. J.L. Geddes of the Eight Iowa Infantry and Henry Werner (
We're fighting for our Union,
we're fighting for our trust
We're fighting for that happy land
where sleeps our Fathers dust
It cannot be dissever'd tho'
it cost us bloody wars
We never can give up the land where
float the Stripes and Stars
We treated you as brothers untill
you drew the sword,
With impious hands at Sumpter you
cut the silver cord,
So now you hear our bugles we come
the sons of Mars,
We rally round that brave old flag
which bears the Stripes and Stars
We do not want your cotton,
we care not for your slaves,
But rather than divide this land,
we'll fill your southern graves
With Lincoln for our chieftain,
we'll wear our countrys scars
We rally round that brave old flag,
that bears the Stripes and Stars
We deem our cause most holy,
we know we're in the right
And twenty millions of freemen
stand ready for the fight
Our bride is fair Columbia,
no stain her beauty mars
O'er her we'll raise that brave old flag,
which bears the Stripes and Stars!
And when this war is over,
we'll each resume our home
And treat you still as brothers
where ever you may roam
We'll pledge the hand of friendshi,
and think no more of wars
But dwell in peace beneath the flag,
that bears the Stripes and Stars!
Chorus:
Hurrah, hurrah, for equal rights hurrah
Hurrah for the brave old flag that
bears the Stripes and Stars!
mamu
mamu
Frankie Avalon
Hey, Venus! Oh, Venus!
Venus if you will
Please send a little girl for me to thrill.
A girl who wants my kisses and my arms
A girl with all the charms of you.
Venus, make her fair
A lovely girl with sunlight in her hair.
And take the brightest stars up in the skies
And place them in her eyes for me.
Venus, goddess of love that you are,
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task.
Venus, if you do
I promise that I always will be true.
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live.
Venus, goddess of love that you are
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task.
Venus if you do
I promise that I always will be true.
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live.
Hey, Venus! Oh, Venus!
Make my wish come true.
mamu
Jimmy Clanton
She's Venus in blue jeans
Mona Lisa with a ponytail
She's walkin' talkin' work of art
She's the girl who stole my heart
My Venus in blue jeans
Is the Cinderella I adore
She's my very special angel too
A fairy tale come true
They say there's seven wonders in the world
But what they say is out of date
There's no more seven wonders in the world
I just met number eight
My Venus in blue jeans
Is ev'rything I hoped she'd be
A teenage goddess from above
And she belongs to me
My Venus in blue jeans
Is ev'rything I hoped she'd be
A teenage goddess from above
And she belongs to me
--
mamu
Shocking Blue (and Bananarama)
A goodess on a mountain top,
was burning like a silver flame.
The summit of beauty she was,
and Venus was her name.
She's got it, Yeah baby she's got it.
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire at you desire.
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire at you desire.
Her weapon were her crystal eyes,
making every man a man.
Black as a darknight she was,
got what no one else had.
Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa wrote:
> Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the names of
> Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths. I know that
> ya'll are smart, so I figured you'd be of tremendous help to me. [It's for a
> strange little project i'm working on.]
>
> Anyhow, this is the VERY small list I have so far.
>
> Cupid - Sam Cooke
> She's So High - Tal Bachman (mentions Aphrodite)
> Jupiter - Jewel (mentions Venus and Jupiter)
> Sometimes It Be That Way - Jewel (Aphrodite, Neptune)
> Stupid Cupid - (who is the artist on this song, i forget?)
>
> Also, i know that there is a country song by a male singer/group that has a
> line, But, I thought I was strong . . . Like ol' Hercules." Can anyone confirm
> artist/title for me? I -think- it's called, "Texas Sized Heartache".
>
> thanks a whole bunch in advance... :)
>
> -Lise (my left shift key is broken so pardon any screwy sentences...)
> --
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
> sure about the former - Albert Einstein
>
> Shagorama Productions
> http://shagpro.simplenet.com
--
mamu
Drausio
>Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa wrote:
>
>> Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the names of
>> Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths. I know that
>> ya'll are smart, so I figured you'd be of tremendous help to me. [It's for a
>> strange little project i'm working on.]
"Perfeição" by Legião Urbana (lyric by Renato Russo - in portuguese)
"Vinte e Nove" by Legiao Urbana (in portuguese)
Drausio.
Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa
>god/goddess as
>in the context of their person or could it also be as in the planet they
>represent? Also, let me understand, you want muses, nymphs, demi-gods, or
>just
>ordinary folks as long as it is in greek/roman myth-- right? Just clearing
>it up
>for myself --mamu
i'll take anything you have. ;) the planet they represent can also be
included, i'll just sort them all out later. thanks. :)
-lisa
mamu
Czech4X wrote:
> >Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the names
> >of
> >Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths.
>
> No Quarter/Led Zeppelin
>
> Close the door, put out the light.
> No, they won't be home tonight.
> The snow falls hard and don't you know?
> The winds of THOR are blowing cold.
> They're wearing steel that's bright and true
> They carry news that must get through, oooh
>
> They choose the path where no-one goes.
>
> They hold no quarter.
> They hold no quarter.
>
> Walking side by side with death
> The devil mocks their every step
> The snow drives back the foot that's slow
> The dogs of doom are howling more
> They carry news that must get through
> To build a dream for me and you
>
> They choose the path where no-one goes.
>
> They hold no quarter.
> They ask no quarter.
> They hold no quarter.
> They ask no quarter.
>
> The pain, the pain without quarter.
> They ask no quarter.
> Yeah! Without quarter, quarter, yeah!
> They need no quarter.
> The dogs of doom are howling more!
> I hear the dogs of doom are howling more!
Czech4X
Czech4X
>of
>Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths
Some Velvet Morning/ Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
<Lee>
Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate
And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra
And how she gave me life
And how she made it end
Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight
<Nancy>
Flowers growing on a hill, dragonflies and daffodils
Learn from us very much, look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name
<Lee>
Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate
And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra
And how she gave me life
And how she made it end
Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight
<Nancy>
Flowers are the things we know, secrets are the things we grow
Learn from us very much, look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name
<Lee> Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight
<Nancy> Flowers growing on a hill
<Lee> I'm gonna open up your gate
<Nancy> dragonflies and daffodils
<Lee> And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra
<Nancy> Learn from us very much
<Lee> And how she gave me life
<Nancy> look at us but do not touch
<Lee> And how she made it end
Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa
Czech4X
I see the mother in the sky
The mother in the clouds
The blue, the stars, the rain
I feel the mother in the earth
The mother in the rocks,
The caves, the soil, and the grain
Oooo can't you see her
Oooo you better believe her
I feel the mother in the sweat lodge
Mother in the kiva, mother in the drumbeat
I hear the mother in the wind
The mother cries her pain
And then she laughs again
Oooo can't you see her
Oooo you'd better believe her
Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna, Ishtar,
Ostra,Cerridwen, Rhiannon, Modron, Artemis, Tara, Eos, Danu,
Persephone, Morgan, Bludwed, Kore, Gaia, Friea, Tailltiu, Aphrodite,
Walprig, Ariadne, Aine, Vesta, Rhadha, Lakshmi, Durga, Parvati,
Saraswati, Sita, Hera, Juno, Thebe, Heria, Rhea, Bobo, Lucina,
Coliope, Cleo, Uterpe, Thalia, Tersacore, Erato, Uradia,
Cailleach, Gamalia, Pax, Justicia,Ceres, Tiamet, Selena, Clotho,
Atropos, Alecto, Hagia, Frig, Lachesis,Sophia, Mother Theresa,
Polyhymnia, Marilyn, Kwan Yin, Maria
Oooo, can't you feel her?
Oooo, you'd better believe her
I see the mother in the sky
I feel the mother in the earth
I feel the mother in the sweat lodge
Mother in the kiva, mother in the drumbeat
I hear the mother in the wind,
The mother cries her pain
And then she laughs
I see her I feel her, mama-Gaia Kah-Nah Maria
Christos Takos
Neptune ( the planets) but I can't remember the title....
Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa <pipe...@aol.com.shag> wrote in message
news:19990709051351...@ng-fp1.aol.com...
> Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the
names of
> Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths. I know
that
> ya'll are smart, so I figured you'd be of tremendous help to me. [It's for
a
> strange little project i'm working on.]
>
> Anyhow, this is the VERY small list I have so far.
>
> Cupid - Sam Cooke
> She's So High - Tal Bachman (mentions Aphrodite)
> Jupiter - Jewel (mentions Venus and Jupiter)
> Sometimes It Be That Way - Jewel (Aphrodite, Neptune)
> Stupid Cupid - (who is the artist on this song, i forget?)
>
> Also, i know that there is a country song by a male singer/group that has
a
> line, But, I thought I was strong . . . Like ol' Hercules." Can anyone
confirm
> artist/title for me? I -think- it's called, "Texas Sized Heartache".
>
> thanks a whole bunch in advance... :)
>
> -Lise (my left shift key is broken so pardon any screwy sentences...)
Linda Marie Greenburg
Linda Marie
Andrew Stewart
Bisa) wrote:
>Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the names of
>Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths.
Tin Machine - Goodbye Mr. Ed ("Icarus takes a pratfall")
David Bowie - Big Brother ("Some great Apollo")
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust ("And the spiders from Mars")
David Bowie - Life On Mars?
(np: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs)
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> Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths.
Spirit
His spirit joined and so was formed
Ten thousand years ago
Between the swan and Hercules
Where even dark clouds glow
To live with grace, to ride the swell
To yet be strong of will
To love the wind, to learn it’s song
And empty space to fill
Apollo taught me to rhyme
Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda cast down her sign
And vega lights my way
Smoke rings in a galaxy
An endless flight through time
Lyra gave her harp to him
And left him free to climb
A winter’s journey from the moon
To reach the summer sun
To rise again, to sing for you
A song that’s yet unsung
Apollo taught me to rhyme
Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda cast down her sign
And vega lights my way
His spirit joined and so was formed
Ten thousand years ago
Between the swan and Hercules
Where even dark clouds glow
To live with grace, to ride the swell
To yet be strong of will
To love the wind, to learn her song
And empty space to fill
Words and Music by John Denver and Joe Henry
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Angel54766
if I recall correctly.
Angel54766
Marge
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodsmen made of tin
A kid knows what he wants to be before he’s nine or ten
Cowboys, clowns, and men of war and someone else’s friend
But nine grows into big boys’ pants and then to scars and pain
Twenty’s fast and hard as nails but doesn’t come again
There’s days to fall and days to rise and days for making haste
Days for seeking out yourself but no days you can waste
Nighttimes filled with love so good it aches to rest it down
Endless hallways dark with sleep and rivers dark with sound
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodsmen made of tin
Children climbing on my arms and pigeons on my head
Get thee up my little man and dream a dream instead
dream a dream of rocking chairs and flying through the night
Dream until the morning’s gone and turned the dark to light
Then come and get your daddy if he hasn’t blown away
Rock him in your children’s hands and help him find his way
Take him to your hiding place and let him come inside
He’ll never tell your secret, cross my heart and hope to die
Peaceful valleys, animals and children asking me
Tell the story that you told of sailors drinking tea
Tell the one about the man who saddled up the wind
Pegasus and flying fish and woodsmen made of tin
Words by Joe Henry, music by John Denver
BKRST594
" No one saved me as I fell from your grace
No one wrote me new lines for what I said wrong "
Bon Jovi
Ronald E. Hontz
BKRST594 wrote:
>
> "Layla" by Eric Clapton ... name of song is a woman from mythology
Excuse me for piggybackin' here but I've lost the original post that
started this thread.
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning" cites one
Phaedra. I looke her up once and found: In Greek mythology, Phaedra
was a daughter of Minos (and a granddaughter of Zeus) who married
Theseus and fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus.
brian eden
"Boat drinks, waitress I need two more boat drinks, then I'm heading south 'fore my dream shrinks, I gotta go where it's warm, I gotta go where it's warm, I gotta go where there ain't any snow, where there ain't any blow, cause my fins sink so low, I gotta go where it's warm." 'Boat Drinks', Jimmy Buffett
Lisa Charet
Pegasus"
by Aussie singer/songwriter Brian Cadd from the 70's
I am Pegasus, my name means horse
And I can fly high with you,
But I've changed my course.
I am Michael, I am Jeffery and John
And I don't have to leave you, But I shall be gone.
I am Genesis, I have no fear,
I make my plans to land for I plan to stay here.
I am Simon, I am Demetrius and Jon
And I don't want to leave you, Unless you want me gone.
I am flying but let me down,
I don't need the things that once kept you (me) around.
It's not too late
1) to know who I am, I am Sagittarius.
2) Do you know who I am?
I am Pegasus, my name means horse
And I can fly high with you now,
But I've changed my course.
I am Michael, I am Jeffery, I am Demitrius and Jon
And I don't have to leave you,
No, no, no, no, no
BKRST594
Donna ( DelFi4110 ) !!
John Martin
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream, 1967.
"Her name is Aphrodite..."
Robert J. Baker
02:42:13 GMT, forbids such page content as this message from
cze...@aol.com (Czech4X)</satire>:
>No Quarter/Led Zeppelin
[...]
>They hold no quarter.
I thought it was "They ASK no quarter".
--
"It's so nice to be insane/No one asks you to explain"
-- Helen Reddy, "Angie Baby"
Robert J. Baker
09:13:51 GMT, forbids such page content as this message from
pipe...@aol.com.shag (Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa)</satire>:
>Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of songs that mention in ANY form the names of
>Greek/Roman gods and goddesses, or people from Greek/Roman myths. I know that
>ya'll are smart, so I figured you'd be of tremendous help to me. [It's for a
>strange little project i'm working on.]
"Aquarius" from "Hair" -- Jupiter, Mars
"Venus and Mars" by Wings -- guess!
"The Fountain of Salmacis" by Genesis (Nursery Cryme) -- the song
mentions Hermaphroditus (sp?) (demigod son of god Hermes and mortal
woman Aphrodite) and Salmacis (naiad) -- the story printed in the
booklet also mentions Hermes and Aphrodite, although the song doesn't.
Said story explains how the English word "hermaphrodite" came to be.
If you're interested, I could post or e-mail the whole lyric and story
of that last one...
Pamela Beasley
Spirit
(words by Joe Henry and music by John Denver)
His spirit joined and so was formed ten thousand years ago
Between the Swan and Hercules where even dark clouds glow
To live with grace, to ride the swell, to yet be strong of will
To love the wind, to learn its song, and empty space to fill
Apollo taught me to fhyne, Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda casts down her sign, and Vega lights my way.
Smoke rings in a galaxy, and endless flight through time
Lyra gave her harp to him and left him free to climb
A winter's journey from the moon to reach the summer sun
To rise again to sing for you a song that's yet unsung.
Apollo taught me to rhyme, Orpheus taught me to play
Andormeda casts down her sign, And Vega lights my way
Cherry Land Music, 1975
steffen...@my-deja.com
It's one of my personal favorites.
I type it as I remember it, there could be slight errors.
---------------------------------------------
There's a light that shines on Persephone
always a fire in her eyes
but the last time that I went to her
I could tell things weren't right.
I just don't care to see the years go wasting
There's no longer magic in your eyes.
In your time you could outshine
everybody else around
but your off-stage ways might be above
you take a bow, you take a fall.
I just don't care to see the years go wasting
There's no longer magic in your eyes.
(...)
(can't remember the next 2 lines, sorry)
But your hand displays a peaceful tune
I don't believe the curtain has to fall.
Now I know your years were never wasted
Tonight I saw the magic in your eyes.
---------------------------------------------
Greetings,
Steffen
Saddle Dreams
My Little Hercules - Trisha Yearwood
--
Patricia
Saddle...@Bigfoot.com
Linda Marie Greenburg <TOP...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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Venus by Frankie Avalon,
Venus by Shocking Blue/Bananarama.
Linda Marie
PBZARET
Your message is unclear to me. I have the lyrics to STUPID CUPID and VENUS IN
BLUE JEANS (but not My Little Hercules). Do you want them?
Phil
Saddle Dreams
gods/goddesses in them...
PBZARET <pbz...@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Achilles' Last Stand"
It was an April morning when they told us we should go
As I turn to you, you smiled at me
How could we say no?
With all the fun to have, to live the dreams we always had
Oh, the songs to sing, when we at last return again
Sending off a glancing kiss, to those who claim they know
Below the streets that steam and hiss,
The devil's in his hole
Oh to sail away, To sandy lands and other days
Oh to touch the dream, Hides inside and never seen.
Into the sun the south the north, at last the birds have flown
The shackles of commitment fell, In pieces on the ground
Oh to ride the wind, To tread the air above the din
Oh to laugh aloud, Dancing as we fought the crowd
To seek the man whose pointing hand, The giant step unfolds
With guidance from the curving path, That churns up into stone
If one bell should ring, in celebration for a king
So fast the heart should beat, As proud the head with heavy feet.
Days went by when you and I, bathed in eternal summers glow
As far away and distant, Our mutual child did grow
Oh the sweet refrain, Soothes the soul and calms the pain
Oh Albion remains, sleeping now to rise again
Wandering & wandering, What place to rest the search
The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth
The mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth
From the earth...
I know the way, know the way, know the way, know the way [X2]
Oh the mighty arms of Atlas, Hold the heavens from the earth.
