Music is Love: [9/26] Period 7
As the students come into the classroom they'll see that Lorne is on the stage fiddling with the karaoke machine.
"Hey kittens! Sorry about class last week," Lorne said once everyone had settled in. ( Today we're going to talk about how music is used for various purposes... )
"Hey kittens! Sorry about class last week," Lorne said once everyone had settled in. ( Today we're going to talk about how music is used for various purposes... )
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Alone or in pairs,
Rolls over your neighbor's dog,
What's great for a snack and fits on your back?
It's log, log, log.
It's lo-og, lo-og,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood,
It's lo-og, lo-og,
It's better than bad, it's good!
Everyone wants a log,
You're gonna love it, log,
Come on and get your log,
Everyone needs a log,
Yes, it's log, log, log.
"Log. From Blammo." Nadia smiled, a little embarrassed. "That's another advertising song. But it sticks in your head really well, and these days, I think I use it more just to see who else sings along and remembers the old jingle. It's sort of a bonding thing."
There was a pause, then Nadia continued.
"I could sing the song for the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, too,"
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[ooc: And yes anyone who really wants to see the song should check the OOC comments at the bottom of the page. Don't make Nada C&P the lyrics again. Think of her!]
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"We used to sneak into places to watch foreign TV when I lived on the streets."
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Duérmete mi niño.
Duérmete solito.
Qué cuando te despiertes,
Te daré atolito.
Duérmete mi niño.
Duérmete mi sol.
Duérmete pedazo,
De mi corazón.
"It's a traditional lullaby," he explained when he finished. "Used to calm and comfort children. Or to just get them to fall asleep."
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Allons enfants de la Patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces feroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!
Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez vos bataillons!
Marchons, marchons!
Qu'un sang
Abreuve nos sillons!
Que veut cette horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés?
Français, pour nous, ah! Quel outrage,
Quels transports il doit exciter!
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage!
"La Marseillaise. Advertising song for revolution, really, all aboubt people getting their throats cut and blood soaking the fields and now we must take up arms to fight the foe. It was also the song for most international revolutionary movements for a while there; the Russians ( ... )
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Follow the drinking gourd!
Follow the drinking gourd.
For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.
When the sun comes back and the first quail calls,
Follow the drinking gourd,
For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.
The riverbank makes a very good road,
The dead trees will show you the way,
Left foot, peg foot traveling on,
Following the drinking gourd.
The river ends between two hills,
Follow the drinking gourd,
There's another river on the other side,
Follow the drinking gourd.
Where the great big river meets the little river,
Follow the drinking gourd,
The old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the drinking gourd.
"This song was used by the Underground Railroad before the Civil War to tell runaway slaves how to get north across the Ohio River by following the Little Dipper. It's an instructional song."
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Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya
Oh lord, kumbaya
Someones singing lord, kumbaya
Someones singing lord, kumbaya
Someones singing lord, kumbaya
Oh lord, kumbayah
Someones laughing, lord, kumbaya...
That's where he broke off because he'd walked out of the common room then.
"Music as torture," he explained. "For torturing people."
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I don't know but I've been told!
Eskimo crackle-hisss is mighty cold!
It tastes good!
Mighty good!
He frowned at the microphone and shrugged. "Anyway, that's a marching song. Suitable for training millitary recruits and getting them to march. You might want to check this mic, though."
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Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear,
And Grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come.
'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me.
His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
"Songs can be used as a form of religious worship," she said after she finished.
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