Need song for 60th Birthday
Lee Nicholson
My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th
Birthday..... about getting
older, related to that process or state! Something fun would be best,
even down and
dirty...related to getting older. I can't come up with much, but
thought someone reading
this newsgroup might know of just the thing.
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alec martin
Hello in There....John Prine!
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Lee Gold
Lee Nicholson wrote:
> My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th
> Birthday..... about getting
> older, related to that process or state!
Are you familiar with the Birthday Dirge? If not, you might want to
useDejanews to look for it. It's sung to the tune of "Volga Boatman."
Sample verse:
Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
Happy birthday! (grunt) Happy birthday! (grunt)
I've also written some computer user verses for it, such as
You will find you're aging less
If you number years in hex.
Happy birthday! (beep!) Happy birthday! (beep!)
And it's fairly easy to add more.
--Lee Gold
Sian Thomas
Lee Nicholson wrote in message
>My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th
>Birthday..... about getting older, related to that process or state!
This isn't going to be a BIG help but ...
I was recently at the 50th wedding anniversary of Meredith Evans and Phyllis
Kinney, Welsh folk song experts. But Phyl is American, and the two of them
sang an hysterical song called *Johnny Sands*. Phyl doesn't know where it's
available in print - their version was handed down in her family, and was an
American Music Hall version of an older folk song. Phyl says the English
Folk Song Society lists a song with a very similar storyline as, "Eggs, eggs
and marrowbone will make an (the?) old man blind."
Anyway, it was extremely funny, and very suited to a duet. Perhaps someone
else could give you more info!
Sian Thomas
http://www.telecottages.org/iws
Y gerdd orau, cerdd at dy waith
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JesiAna
I used "Get Up and Go," Pete Seeger's great song about getting older, when my
dad turned eighty. My brother and I even added a verse to it to fit the
occasion.
It is, I believe, copyrighted, so I won't print the entire text here. However,
it is in the book "Rise Up Singing."
On a more sentimental note, try John McCutcheon's "Cut the Cake," on his "Water
from Another Time" album. It is charming.
The chorus for "Get Up and Go" goes thusly:
How do I know my youth is all spent,
my get up and go got up and went,
but in spite of it all, I'm able to grin,
and think of the places my get-up has been.
Jesiana
Joseph C Fineman
Lee Nicholson <Lee...@yahoo.SPAMGUARD.com> writes:
>My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th
>Birthday..... about getting older, related to that process or state!
>Something fun would be best, even down and dirty...related to getting
>older. I can't come up with much, but thought someone reading this
>newsgroup might know of just the thing.
There are a fair number of candidates in the "Time and Changes"
section of _Rise Up Singing_. The one I chose at a singing party I
happened to be at when I turned 60 last October was "Get Up and Go".
--- Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
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||: contact with reality is called depression. :||
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Lee Nicholson wrote in message <355114A9...@yahoo.SPAMGUARD.com>...
>My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th
>Birthday..... about getting
>older, related to that process or state! Something fun would be best,
>even down and
>dirty...related to getting older. I can't come up with much, but
>thought someone reading
>this newsgroup might know of just the thing.
>
>
Jim Spinelli
Here's my two cents:
Not tonight, Marie - Tom Paxton
Get Up & Go - The Weavers
--
Jim spin...@island.net
Nanaimo, BC
Canada
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Joe Kesselman, yclept Keshlam
Well, we just sang the chorus of Tom Chapin's birthday song to
(at?) Pete Seeger -- it's easy to zip in whatever number you
need in place of "today's your".
Pete didn't exactly applaud, but he forgave us. <grin!>
His comment: It's amazing what a publicity agent can
accomplish. Record company hired a publicist to push
his most recent recording, and he's gotten more calls
about his 79th birthday than he's had over his whole career.
Jonathan Dresner
"Life begins at Forty" by Judy Small
"My Get Up and Go (Has Got Up And Went)" by the Weavers
"A Well Known Fact" and/or "Flaming Agnes" from "I Do, I Do"
"Modern Maturity" by Tom Paxton
Jonathan
In article <35526...@194.214.162.66>, Jim Lesses <jle...@auslink.net> wrote:
>"When I'm 64" by The Beatles
>
>Lee Nicholson wrote in message <355114A9...@yahoo.SPAMGUARD.com>...
SLHinton17
Lee Nicholson <Lee...@yahoo.com> wrote on Wed, May06, 1998 6:55 PM
>
>My spouse and I have been asked to sing a song or two at a 60th Birthday.....
about >getting older, related to that process or state!
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Here are two of my favorites:
CUT THE CAKE by Tina Liza Jones. Sung by John McCutcheon on his great Rounder
recording, 'Water From Another Time." (Also on his earlier recording,
"Howjadoo," also from Rounder.) Wordsand chords in the book "Rise Up Singing;"
words, chords and music in _Sing Out!_ magazine, vol. 31, No. 1.
SPRING CHICKEN by Peter Berrryman, on his and Lou Berryman's wonderful
recording "Cow Imagination." This is an ironic, wishful thinking view of
growing older, pretending that the singrer is still TOO young, and needs a bit
of aging:
"My sideburns too auburn,
My whims are too quirky,
My amble too nimble,
My posture too perky.
To be truthful, I'm so youthful, it's a crime."
Words and music are in the _New Berryman-B erryman Songbook_. Books, CD's and
tapes available from Lou & Peter Berryman, Box 3452 , Madison, WI 53704..
Sam Hinton
La Jolla, CA
Steve Ziegelmeyer
Knocking on Heavens Door- Dylan
Too Old To Rock -n- Roll ( too young to die ) - Jethro Tull
"Hello In There" was suggested by someone. This would be a great one
although it is definitely a serious song.
-Steve Z-