Right Words/Wrong Tune (silly)
dji...@aol.com
I was in Harvey Reid's website on Woodpecker's home page
(http://www.woodpecker.com/) recently and he notes that you can sing the
words to oodles of songs to the tune of "Johnny B. Goode" ("Greensleeves"
being one).
A friend of mine, Dave Behm, sang the words to "Wild Colonial Boy" to the
tune of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" at a St Pat's gig and I swear he was
halfway through it before I (and a large proportion of the audience)
noticed that something was not quite right.
The words to "Parcel of Rogues" keeps getting stuck in my head to the tune
to "Rocky Road to Dublin". This was initially accidental and is very
annoying.
Anybody else have some good ones?
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Jeri Corlew
rebecca elder
dji...@aol.com wrote:
: I was in Harvey Reid's website on Woodpecker's home page
: (http://www.woodpecker.com/) recently and he notes that you can sing the
: words to oodles of songs to the tune of "Johnny B. Goode" ("Greensleeves"
: being one).
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:
: Anybody else have some good ones?
:
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: Jeri Corlew
Well, you can sing many Emily Dickenson poems (most notably Because I
Could Not Stop For Death) to the tune of Yellow Rose of Texas. Can never
read her anymore because of that fact.
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Stephen L Suffet
Greetings---
The old standby is singing any of Emily Dickinson's poems to "The
Yellow Rose of Texas." But my personal favorite is singing "The House of
the Rising Sun" to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne."
Kindest regards,
Steve Suffet
New York City
Matt Fichtenbaum
Continuing the thread...
Garrison Keillor used to do a bunch of these. I remember Robert Frost's
"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" ("Whose woods these are I think I
know") to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway." Also the Doxology ("Praise Him
from whom all blessings flow") to the same tune. More?
Robert G McCausland
ma...@harpa.ultranet.com (Matt Fichtenbaum) writes:
I remember hearing that there were three fairly different sounding songs
that could be sung together - two of which I believe were "Amazing Grace"
and "I'll Fly Away." Can't remember what the third one was supposed to
be. Any help?
On the sunny side,
~~Rob McCausland
rg...@world.std.com
Brett Weiss
John McCutcheon does a number where he talks about how his grandfather
found out that he could sing a number of lyrics to the tune of "Goodnight
Irene." Amazing Grace and House of the Rising Sun are two that work.
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Brett
JJ
Matt Fichtenbaum (ma...@harpa.ultranet.com) wrote:
: Continuing the thread...
: Garrison Keillor used to do a bunch of these. I remember Robert Frost's
: "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" ("Whose woods these are I think I
: know") to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway." Also the Doxology ("Praise Him
: from whom all blessings flow") to the same tune. More?
Well, there's always the reverse: songs whose words can be sung to
almost any tune. Seamus Kennedy does "The Marine's Hymn" to the tunes of
"Ghost Riders in the Sky," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "Amazing Grace" ...
Alexander Platt
The Israeli national anthem, Ha Tikva, is well known to fit nicely over
Amazing Grace, as well.
Alan Havens
In article <lfortuneE...@netcom.com>, lfor...@netcom.com (JJ) wrote:
(snip)
> Well, there's always the reverse: songs whose words can be sung to
> almost any tune. Seamus Kennedy does "The Marine's Hymn" to the tunes of
> "Ghost Riders in the Sky," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "Amazing Grace" ...
For that matter, you can also sing "The Marine's Hymn" to the tune
of "Clementine". (and vice versa)
Alan
The above does not represent any official opinnion of anybody, anywhere.
benjamin gamble
In article <mumble> rg...@world.std.com (Robert G McCausland) writes:
|I remember hearing that there were three fairly different sounding songs
|that could be sung together - two of which I believe were "Amazing Grace"
|and "I'll Fly Away." Can't remember what the third one was supposed to
|be. Any help?
Afraid not, since there are thousands (hundreds of thousands, millions,
whatever) of songs/poems that share this property. You may have heard
of something called a "ballad"...
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Amy E. Ksir
I've heard a bunch of these (one New Year's Eve we had a great
round of Auld Lang Syne/House of the Rising Sun switching :) )
but the best one I've learned recently is singing "Clementine"
to Beethoven's 9th "Ode to Joy".
It fits really hilariously well...
Of course the other way is possible too if you know the
German words.
Harold Maurer
On 11 Nov 1996 01:09:16 GMT, dji...@aol.com wrote:
The one that takes first place for me is Robert Frost's "Stopping In
The Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Hope I got the Name Right) which can
be handitly sung to" Hernando's Hideaway". It's a hoot, and we all
sang it after too much Grappa in a vinyard near Winchester VA.
Whose woods these are, I think I know....
Stephen McKendry-Smith
This could end up being a really long thread.
How about Stan Roger's The Lovely Athens Queen, sung to the tune of the
theme to Gilligan's Island.
Steve M.
Jim Brewster
Has anyone else played the game:
"You can sing anything you want to 'Alice's Restaurant'"
It works with most folk songs I've tried, and can get quite silly!
Jim
Jacey Bedford
If you're feeling seasonal...
While Shepherds watched their Flocks by Night has over 36 different
tunes in the Yorksire carolling tradition, but one of the most notable
is the tune to "On Ilkley Moor baht 'at" (baht 'at = Yorkshire dialect
for "without a hat").
However once you leave the realms of tradition "Shapherds" fits
brilliantly to Pinball Wizard. (White Cockade also fits Pinball Wizard
and with a little more "arranging" you can fit Shepherds to White
Cockade and vice versa) In fact there are very few tunes you can't
squash "While Shepherds" into, including (if you aren't too picky about
the rhythm) "I Did it My Way"--that famout folk song as sung by Frank
Sinatra.
Incidentally Sinatra is an anagram for Artisan!
Just thought you might need to know that one day.
Jacey
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Huddersfield, England